Tyrese Haliburton is so accommodating and Pascal Siakam is so specific that it creates an unexpected congruence. They're not so much complementary as ancillary. Read more »

Once the Pacers get opponents to play their style, the bet is that they'll be better at playing that way. This is partly because of the hours of logged practice time, but mostly because they have Tyrese Haliburton.  Read more »

We've ranked every team's wing corps from 1 to 30 based on the top three wings' production, upside and versatility. Read more »

The Celtics finished first in Net Rating ahead of the Cavaliers, who jumped up from 13th last season and 28th as recently as 2021. Read more »

The Pacers have developed an exciting, under-noticed style- they are near the top of the league in both pace and three-point volume, relying on Tyrese Haliburton's control of the machine but also on their considerable armada of shooters. Read more »

The Suns jumped from 30th in the NBA in Net Rating in 17-18 to 29th to 18th in 19-20 to third last season and first in 21-22. Read more »

When you are young and skilled in the NBA, you have the whole world in front of you. The whole world viewed through the prism of whatever town you're stuck in. Read more »

To be fair to Domantas Sabonis, he's 25 and ascendant, coming off career highs in points and assists per game. Nobody should be telling him what is and isn't possible. He'll gun for an All-NBA spot, and at least get close. Read more »

The media cycle that followed the Malice at the Palace did not correlate with the reality in the arena that night, aside from the magical one that racists are always manufacturing on the fly. Read more »

The Jazz jumped from ninth in Net Rating last season to first in 20-21. Read more »

For all his flaws, Nate McMillan knows basketball and he knows how to treat people. That's not something to be taken for granted. Read more »

While the Bulls, Pistons and Cavaliers are rebuilding, the Pacers are trying to get out of the get of the first round, the Bucks have championship or bust expectations. Read more »

It's been a tumultuous couple of years for Victor Oladipo, who burned out almost as quickly as he rose to prominence. Read more »

As out of his mind as he's been, T.J. Warren's recent performances are a logical extension of what he's become over the past couple seasons and what he's been for considerably longer than that. Read more »

We look at the trajectory of every team in the NBA in terms of how they rank in the category. Read more »

Jermaine O'Neal's career, viewed in hindsight, takes on the shape of a slasher film. He got the rawest cosmic deal of his generation. He sat in Portland, flourished in Indiana, and suffered through an aborted phantom season that could have seen him realize new heights. Then he started to get hurt all the time. Read more »

It remains potently strange that Larry Bird, three-time MVP and something like the sixth-best player of all-time, breezed through Indiana, organized one of the best teams in the league, and then quietly walked away from a profession nobody knew he would be good at or even wanted to pursue in the first place. Read more »