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The 53 Best Franchise Players In The NBA

NBA player rankings, from ESPN’s #NBARank to Bill Simmons’s annual trade value column, are like the honey butter chips of sportswriting: just way too hard to resist. So — with the regular season starting today — here’s our special recipe, fueled by CARMELO, our new NBA player projection system. What makes our version a little […]

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2015-16 NBA Preview: The Warriors Are Gonna Be Awesome

We’re inaugurating our NBA player projection system, CARMELO, with 2015-16 season previews for every team in the league. Check out the teams we’ve already previewed here. Learn more about CARMELO here. Can the remarkably unexpected be repeated? In 2014-15, the Golden State Warriors claimed their first championship in four decades and possibly the best NBA […]

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2015-16 NBA Preview: The Warriors Are Gonna Be Awesome

We’re inaugurating our NBA player projection system, CARMELO, with 2015-16 season previews for every team in the league. Check out the teams we’ve already previewed here. Learn more about CARMELO here. Can the remarkably unexpected be repeated? In 2014-15, the Golden State Warriors claimed their first championship in four decades and possibly the best NBA […]

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2015-16 NBA Preview: The Warriors Are Gonna Be Awesome

We’re inaugurating our NBA player projection system, CARMELO, with 2015-16 season previews for every team in the league. Check out the teams we’ve already previewed here. Learn more about CARMELO here. Can the remarkably unexpected be repeated? In 2014-15, the Golden State Warriors claimed their first championship in four decades and possibly the best NBA […]

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2015-16 NBA Preview: LeBron And The Cavs Could Win 60 Games

We’re inaugurating our NBA player projection system, CARMELO, with 2015-16 season previews for every team in the league. Check out the teams we’ve already previewed here. Learn more about CARMELO here. From mid-January until about halfway through the NBA Finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers had the best record in basketball, going on a 48-12 run of […]

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