The Celtics contain more multitudes than any title contender in recent memory given how long they've been in this position and the quality and diversity of their top-6. And they possess enough dominant ways to play to withstand a vintage Kyrie Irving performance. Read more »
NBA Analysis
2024 NBA Finals, Game 3 Review: A Classic Game From An Abbreviated Series
NBA Draft Report: Bronny James Of USC
Bronny James has helped himself a lot throughout the pre-draft process, reminding scouts and front office executives why he was a borderline five-star recruit coming out of high school. Read more »
2024 NBA Finals, Game 2 Review: Best Team Vs. Best Player
The dominant conversation entering the Finals was the Best Team vs. Best Player debate, but the way the Celtics are forcing the Mavericks to work excessively hard on both ends on the floor is answering those questions. Read more »
2024 NBA Finals, Game 1 Review: Howling Mountainous Waves Upon The Parquet
The Celtics have had a frustratingly extended prologue, but they are three wins away from finally vanquishing it. Game 1 showed the greatness they're capable of achieving. Read more »
Luka Doncic Is The NBA's Truest Gamer
It's time for some Gamer Theory: Luka Doncic plays Overwatch, and is in the 99th percentile of performance. He's in the 100th percentile of NBA players, but it's important to understand he's also elite pretending to be a futuristic gladiator and talking trash to teenagers. Read more »
2024 NBA Finals Preview: Heliocentrism Vs. Strength In Numbers
The Mavericks and Celtics are a pair of throughly modern teams, but in distinctly contrasting ways, which should make for an entertaining series and also a referendum on two models of team construction. Read more »
How The Pacers Became The NBA's 'Second Draft' Oasis
Trading for Tyrese Haliburton was the most extreme and important example of Indiana's team-building strategy - one that takes advantage of a market inefficiency and could become a model for teams going forward. Read more »
NBA Draft Report: Nikola Topic Of Crvena Zvezda
If Nikola Topic becomes an average shooter, his size, passing and finishing is special enough for a team to build an offense around. Read more »
Time For Nuggets, Thunder, Knicks To Tend To Wounds Instead Of Overreacting To Playoff Exits
It’s up to these teams who were each so close to reaching the Conference Finals to take a step back, revisit their respective plans and get back to doing what makes them special. Read more »
Wolves Vs. Mavs Is Something Totally New
In the 2024 NBA, regime change has arrived, and old templates won't tell us what's coming. Luka and Ant-Man aren't following old bibles about how to win, closely mimicking anyone who came before them, or sticking to their reputational patterns. Read more »
2024 NBA Playoff Capsules (Conference Finals)
Previewing Wolves/Mavericks and Celtics/Pacers. Read more »
Add Nuggets, Wolves To Conference Semifinals Lore
This has been an instant classic series without an instant classic game. It has seemingly been over twice and now we get to watch two superduperstars on supremely well-constructed teams in a Game 7. Read more »
Nikola Jokic's First Stress Test
The NBA superstar journey inevitably encounters a situation like Nikola Jokic has faced against the Wolves where their burgeoning legacies are perilously threatened. Read more »
NBA Draft Report: Kel'el Ware Of Indiana
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Kel'el Ware has stretch center potential, while also possessing a floor as a playable rim-runner, which says a lot about him as a prospect. Read more »
The Wolves Owned All 4,700 Basketball Squares
Minnesota's defensive effort in Game 2 was a transformative sight. In what appeared to be an effort to become one with their team name, they swarmed, smashed, hounded, snarled, took, and destroyed for 24 straight minutes to start the game. Not an inch of the court was safe. Read more »
NBA Draft Report: Devin Carter Of Providence
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Devin Carter won't be a star, but he could certainly be a starter or high end rotation player with his ability on both ends of the floor and do all the little things. Read more »
Joel Embiid Is Already Legend
Joel Embiid carries the weight of expectations differently than others. As his fanbase and national media have constructed stories that have him as the potential messiah in a decade-long process of experimental team-building, coupled with the unusual rabidity of Philadelphia sports fans, he has accepted this role sincerely. Read more »
2024 NBA Playoff Capsules (Second Round)
Previewing Wolves/Nuggets, Knicks/Pacers, Thunder/Mavericks and Celtics/Magic. Read more »
Kevin Durant's Exploratory Era
For many, Kevin Durant's career has been less about his skills and more a cause for referendum on modern league politics, and on what happens when a player attempts to fully tell their own story. Read more »
These Celtics Are Different... Right?
Whatever mental hurdles the Celtics hope to overcome may not present themselves until the NBA Finals. Read more »