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Mar 17, 2019

2019 March Madness Predictions

FiveThirtyEight 2019 March Madness Predictions In-game win probabilities and chances of advancing, updating live.

Mar 02, 2019

LeBron And The Lakers Have Hit A Low Point

UPDATE (March 3, 2019, 9:52 a.m.): The Lakers lost to the Suns on Saturday night, and have now hit a new low point, with only an 8 percent chance of making the playoffs. Barring a miracle turnaround, expect more new low points to come. On the one hand, the Los Angeles Lakers’ loss to the […]

Jan 18, 2019

Ben Simmons Has Old-School Range. In 2019, That’s A Problem.

The Philadelphia 76ers have been one of the most interesting teams of the 2018-19 NBA season so far — and that hasn’t always been a good thing. On the court, they’re a fast-paced squad with a ton of young talent, but they haven’t quite made the leap forward people expected after last year’s breakout performance. […]

Nov 29, 2018

NBA Nerds, Rejoice: Our Projections Now Reflect Injuries And Lineup Changes

Eagle-eyed FiveThirtyEight readers might have noticed something different about our NBA predictions interactive on Wednesday afternoon: We rolled out a slightly different look to the table based on a pretty significant upgrade to the way we handle NBA forecasts. We’ll have a full methodology page ready soon, but for now we wanted to highlight a […]

Oct 16, 2018

The 6 Things We’re Watching This NBA Season

Another NBA season gets underway tonight, and aside from the obvious question — can the Warriors piece together three consecutive championships? — there are several things worth watching. We took a crack at analyzing a handful of them, and how we think they might play out, just ahead of the games on opening night. Will […]