I distinctly remember the 2022-23 Utah Jazz, the first season for current Head Coach Will Hardy, starting out the season 10-3, with Lauri Markkanen and Jordan Clarkson leading the recently blown-up roster that, for the first time in half a decade, did not feature Donovan Mitchell or Rudy Gobert. There were…
The 2027 NBA Draft class has nowhere to go but up. After star-studded draft classes the previous two years, the class of 2027 has been widely expected to be a letdown for multiple years. There’s no Cooper Flagg or Cameron Boozer or Dylan Harper or A.J. Dybantsa-level talent in this year’s class, though it does
Since teaming up in the fall of 2017, Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum forged on in Beantown as the Boston Celtics shuffled through name after name around them. Kyrie Irving. Gordon Hayward. Kemba Walker. Robert Williams III. Marcus Smart. Al Horford. Jrue Holiday. Kristaps Porzingis. All of them came and went while…
It wasn’t long ago that Giannis Antetokounmpo was one of the NBA’s best defenders. He joined Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the third player ever to be named NBA MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season during the 2019-2020 campaign, and he was consistently a major part of some great
It is tempting to hand-waive everything that has happened to the Indiana Pacers in the last year and a half as simply the work of some vengeful spirit, unfairly punishing an innocent fanbase who never did anything to deserve this kind of sustained injury catastrophe and lottery luck that would sink any franchise, in…
The NBA’s 82-game regular season leaves plenty of margin for error for a bad stretch of play. This is a league where 53% of teams make the playoffs, not counting the four other teams who have the opportunity to earn their way into the postseason with one or two wins in the play-in tournament. There
There are still people paying to go to Sacramento Kings games, which kind of feels like a miracle given that the team has the worst cumulative record in basketball since 2010 and hasn’t advanced in the playoffs since 2004. On Wednesday night, as the Kings were hosting the Los Angeles Lakers, one Sacramento fan got
Victor Wembanyama is the alien, and on Wednesday night he achieved something that hasn’t been accomplished since shortly after Area 51 was opened. Wemby went off to a level we haven’t see in decades against the Mavericks, finishingwith 52 points, 24 rebounds, and 8 blocks — the first player to hit these marks since…
So much can change in the NBA in just a couple weeks, and it’s already happened to start the 2026-27 season. A massive rash of injuries has decimated the playing field, leaving some teams trying to tread water until their stars return, and others needing to find new solutions with key pieces out for the
Draymond Green’s reputation precedes him, and it was on full display Monday night against the Suns. Green was tossed for a double technical after he tackled Khaman Maluach, then got physical with Dillon Brooks after the play — seemingly trying to choke him. Not sure we can really call this a “choke,” it was more
The high school class of 2020 produced one of the most hyped collections of top-ranked prospects in recent memory. Jalen Green, Terrence Clarke, and Josh Christopher were household names from early in their teenage years for mixtape compilations that drew comparisons to Kobe Bryant and other star scorers. Jalen Suggs…