We all have our favorite players in sports. Patrick Mahomes in football. Kobe Bryant in basketball. J.P Sears in baseball (WHO?). I’m kidding. From the three I listed, I truthfully have Kobe as my favorite. The other two? Not on top of my list, but maybe top 10-15. That’s not the point. When it comes […]
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The race to the 2023 NBA Championship ends in June. A pivotal moment for many winners and losers occurs at the NBA trade deadline. Deadline day represents one of the last chances to add a playoff-eligible difference-maker to your team and build chemistry before the games really count. There is a human element to uprooting […]
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Kyrie Irving has been traded to the Dallas Mavericks. The Brooklyn Nets are sending Irving and Markieff Morris to Dallas in return for Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith, a 2027 second-round pick, a 2029 first-round pick, and a 2029 second-round pick. Irving was traded two days after his initial request to part ways with the Nets. […]
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A new year is upon us! As the calendar turns over and the football calendar shrinks, the NBA takes the attention of the American sporting schedule. You might have seen some wild stories and stat lines lately and wondered what have you been missing. Never fear! I have some NBA New Year’s resolutions for each […]
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The Boston Celtics had a busy week as they had four games, including a rematch with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls. They took a trip to New York and Memphis and walked away with some franchise records. On this trip, Jayson Tatum continued his MVP campaign averaging 31.7 points per game over the week […]
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The Golden State Warriors are the champions of the NBA for the fourth time in eight years and we’ll look at the key storylines in their incredible run to the NBA Finals in season 2021-22. Bettingtop10 recommends PlayUp as one of the best betting sites for NBA. Golden State are currently favored by NBA betting […]
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After what felt like a decade of discussion, the 18-month Christian Wood experiment is over in Houston. Wood arrived in Houston in a sign and trade that, at the moment, made him a tertiary piece on a roster competing for the NBA Championship. With James Harden and Russell Westbrook, the Houston Rockets felt they had […]
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How I Met Your Mother was a series that went on for nine seasons on CBS. In the first season, about halfway through, Ted Mosby and the crew are in a limo going from New Year’s Eve party to New Year’s Eve party. The crux of the episode is that New Year’s Eve is an […]
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In the summer of 2018, the Dallas Mavericks drafted their superstar. After a year of creatively tanking, the franchise that Dirk Nowitzki built had found another European generational talent. Luka Doncic, a Slovenian teenager, had played professionally for Real Madrid since 2015. By 2018? He was the best player outside of the United States. Doncic […]
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We’ve gotten too used to slam-dunk easy NBA Playoffs series to predict. For years, a few teams at the top have dominated the NBA Playoffs, but even those underling teams had a clear hierarchy of who-beats-who. Young teams are discounted in the playoffs. It’s a new environment, and it’s hard to adapt. This year, we […]
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We are back on the NBA Twitter beat that I assigned myself for some more laughs. With the help of NBA All-Star weekend and the Top 75 halftime festivities, there was more than enough great content produced by NBA Twitter. As always, check out the great work other Belly Up NBA writers are producing such […]
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Cade Cunningham was highly touted coming out of Oklahoma State. Scouts were calling him one of the most complete prospects to come out in recent memory as he could pass, score, and had a tremendous frame for the guard position. Problem is, was there too much hype surrounding him? Strengths: Cunningham’s ability to get others […]
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Dr. Seuss wrote a wonderful story titled The Big Brag, in which a rabbit can use his ears to hear half way around the world. While this super power may be inside a word of American classic fiction, it exists in real life today. LeBron James, the Los Angeles Lakers point forward, has shown this […]
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2010-2020 started and finished with the Los Angeles Lakers winning the title. Kobe won his 5th and last championship. Lebron won his fourth. (Will it be his last too?). The 2010s were also dominated by one Lebron James ( Lebanon the St. James) He was center stage in 9 out of the 11 NBA Finals […]
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