The Celtics finished in the top spot in Net Rating for the second straight season, while the Thunder jumped up from 28th to 14th to second. Read more »
San Antonio Spurs Analysis
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
The 2023-24 HAGS (Have A Great Summer) Team
The season is over for Cade Cunningham, Devin Vassell, Vince Williams Jr., Deni Avdija, Alperen Sengun and Collin Sexton, but their play and promise for next season are very encouraging. Read more »
Victor Wembanyama Is Something Entirely New
Victor Wembanyama is not a remixed version of another player, nor is he a combination of previously seen skills coming together in one person. He is something entirely new. Read more »
NBA's Top Wing Trios Ranked
We've ranked every team's wing corps from 1 to 30 based on the top three wings' production, upside and versatility. Read more »
Spurs Hit Jackpot, So Did Victor Wembanyama
On Victor Wembanyama entering the NBA with some of the highest expectations we've ever seen and now joining a franchise perfectly suited to realize it, plus a look at whether the Hornets will choose Brandon Miller or Scoot Henderson. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
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 »
Jeremy Sochan's Game Is A Minor Protest Against The NBA's Orthodoxy
Jeremy Sochan breaks the convention and structure of the game. He plays a hyperactive, improvisational style that feels like watching a basketball randomizer. Read more »
Dejounte Murray Puts On The Black Hat
Overnight, Dejounte Murray has branded himself as one of the most savage showmen within recent memory, necessarily changing the forecast for the vibes, if nothing else, of the 22-23 Hawks campaign. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
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 »
DeMar DeRozan's Deliverance
DeMar DeRozan has come into his power like the sun showing up in the eye of a hurricane, there all along but waiting, patiently, for the circle of fortune to form up around him. Read more »
The Overdue Recognition Of DeMar DeRozan
DeMar DeRozan wasn't LeBron and he wasn't Kawhi, and he also wasn't Tim Duncan when he reached the Spurs. He quietly improved nonetheless and turned into one of the most overlooked playmakers in the NBA. Read more »
High Time For DeMar DeRozan To Impress Again
The Bulls are all in trying to win 50 games this year, and DeMar DeRozan will help considerably. There is a rung right below greatness, where some swell players hang out, but you can lose track of them. Read more »
Kobe, KG, Duncan And The Recession Into The Past
The guys that go into the Hall of Fame precede the current crop of players by a generation or several and their accomplishments have begun to acquire the smell of warehoused memorabilia. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
The Jazz jumped from ninth in Net Rating last season to first in 20-21. Read more »
Thirty Futures: San Antonio Spurs
Gregg Popovich has always treated basketball with the correct amount of seriousness, which is to say you let it drive you nuts, until you realize you're being stupid and ease up. Both of those things are important. Read more »
2020-21 NBA Season Preview: Southwest Division
While the Mavericks appear to be the only playoff lock in the division, the Rockets, Spurs, Grizzlies and Pelicans should all at least be in the Play-In mix. Read more »
This Weird NBA Season Has Two Separate Defending Champions
Both the Raptors and Kawhi himself, though separated by the breadth of a continent, have something at stake, a chance to assert that they were the truly indispensable part of last year's triumph and win back-to-back chips. Read more »
Suspended Indefinitely: Michael Finley Belongs
Michael Finley wasn't going to be Jordan, or really anything like Jordan. But at 24, 25, 26, his career was still a splintering branch of possibility. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
We look at the trajectory of every team in the NBA in terms of how they rank in the category. Read more »
Suspended Indefinitely: Tim Duncan Feels Ageless
Tim Duncan was not actually a computer program; we had been discussing him in metaphor. He was a guy, an extraordinarily talented and temperate guy, choosing to put in the work and make all the right decisions. Read more »