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Is NBA Summer League A Springboard To Head-Coaching Opportunities?

When it comes time for the NBA’s annual Summer League competition in Las Vegas, most of the basketball world’s attention is laser-focused on the players. Fans, media members and teams themselves want to see how players like Paolo Banchero and Chet Holmgren will fare in their first-ever action against professional competition, what James Wiseman looks […]

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NBA 7-Footers Are Having A Renaissance … Or Are They?

At various points in 2022, it has seemed like the NBA might once again belong to the 7-footer. Joel Embiid nearly won MVP honors while becoming the first center to win the scoring title since 1999-00 (and the first to average more than 30 points a game since 1981-82). Young, up-and-coming 7-footers like Mitchell Robinson […]

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Bradley Beal’s New Contract Leaves The Wizards Stuck In The Middle

The opening minutes of NBA free agency are a period of mayhem that, for most fans, represent arguably the most exciting time of the whole season. The Twitter feeds of Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania are refreshed frantically to see who’s going where. But for the Washington Wizards, this year was about who was staying […]

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