Every year was the same. You could expect future Hall-of-Famer LeBron James or future Hall-of-Famer Stephen Curry to be in the NBA Finals. And the livelihood of the rest of the NBA’s head coaches always seemed to be collateral damage because results matter. Now that the era of the super team has (mostly) come to […]
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Milwaukee’s star could be joining the ranks of Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and other great five-season players with a remarkable 2022-23. Giannis has won two Kia MVPs in the last four seasons. He also won a championship and a Finals MVP. Sometimes in a player’s career, the hoop seems twice the size, when it is […]
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The start of a new NBA season is great news for sports fans. They’ve got months of great basketball action to look forward to. But which fans are going to be celebrating this season, and which ones are going to just want it all to end so they can start dreaming of the next season? […]
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(This is Part One of Ten of the Small Market Review: a new series where I dive into the NBA’s ten small market teams and give recognition to a player that stood out this season. Today’s team? The Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo). After bringing the Milwaukee Bucks their first championship since 1971 in 2021, […]
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The Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks are on a collision course for an Eastern Conference Second Round matchup. The last time these two organizations faced off in the playoffs was in 2019 when a similar Bucks squad beat the Kyrie Irving-led Celtics in five. NBA power dynamics have shifted since then, and the Boston […]
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Early Success and Injuries Could the Chicago Bulls upset the Milwaukee Bucks? The Bulls had a very promising, and somewhat shocking start to the 2021-22 NBA season. They held the number one seed in the East for several weeks before eventually falling victim to the unavoidable cancer in the NBA known as injuries. The team […]
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As the NBA Playoffs are starting to approach, there’s no better time to look and wonder how the NBA Championship will turn out to be. The parity in the league has been translated to very tight NBA Championship odds as the finals are slowly approaching. The Phoenix Suns are still on the lead with odds […]
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The Eastern Conference is as competitive as ever as we make the turn past the All-Star break and playoff basketball is right around the corner. This is the part of the season where we see the contending teams separate themselves from the pack, and which teams are going in the opposite direction. So let’s start […]
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Boooooogggggiiieeeeee is back! DeMarcus Cousins appears to be close to signing with the champion Milwaukee Bucks according to the latest report from Adrian Wojnarowski. With Brook Lopez still on the mend (link) and no timetable for his return, it makes sense for the Bucks to add some depth in the frontcourt. What Boogie can offer […]
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It seems like ever since Michael Jordan retired, we have consistently watched the Western Conference be the dominant conference in the NBA. Yes, the East has won titles since 1999, eight to be exact, and had one dynasty, but it has mostly been the junior conference. The West has seen two dynasties, three depending on […]
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As the confetti settles in Milwaukee, Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks represent mid-sized markets everywhere atop the NBA. Rightly or wrongly, the Bucks represent the antithesis of the fans’ issues with the game. They’re not a superteam that signed a handful of All-Stars, they’re not a major city on either coast, and they kept their […]
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Yes, the NBA has reached the end of the season. The Houston Rockets suffered through an abysmal year that ended much earlier, and now the entire league is wrapping up. The NBA Finals features the Milwaukee Bucks and the Phoenix Suns, two small-market teams who haven’t had this much success in 47 and 28 years […]
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The 2021 NBA Trade Deadline was very uninteresting for nearly 66 of the final 72 hours. Then, in the last stretch, trade after trade, stars first fled sunny Orlando for the cold world in Chicago and Denver. Trades didn’t stop hitting Twitter until well after the official deadline had passed. If you had Woj, Charania, […]
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The reigning, back-to-back MVP is trying to defend his crown, and posting the necessary numbers to do so, but the NBA world doesn’t seem too interested. There has been a surprising lack of coverage on Giannis Antetokounmpo so far this season and I’m trying to think out loud as to why that might be. With […]
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