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NBA Free Agency Diary: Did The Sixers Lose Jimmy Butler And … Get Better?

Keep track of the chaotic NBA offseason with our Free Agency Diary. The Philadelphia 76ers went into the NBA’s free-agency blitz with an eye on keeping together as much as possible of last season’s 51-win outfit (which took the eventual champion Raptors to seven games in the playoffs), including potentially re-signing free agents Jimmy Butler, […]

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CARMELO NBA Player Projections

FiveThirtyEight UPDATED JUL. 1, 2019 AT 2:00 PM CARMELO NBA Player Projections FiveThirtyEight’s CARMELO* identifies similar players throughout NBA history and uses them to develop a probabilistic forecast of what a current NBA player’s future might look like. More NBA:Every team’s Elo historyAbout our 2018-19 player projections How good will LeBron James (Cavaliers) be? Random […]

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Where Does This Summer’s NBA Free-Agent Class Rank?

NBA fans (and general managers) have had the summer of 2019 circled on their calendars for a very long time. With names like Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard, Jimmy Butler and Kyrie Irving available via free agency — plus the inevitable Anthony Davis trade having already gone down earlier in the month — the sheer amount […]

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The 6 Questions That Will Define NBA Free Agency

We’re four days away from the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: NBA free agency. And with several of the league’s biggest superstars potentially on the move — at a time in which the race for the title seems as open as it’s been in years — we wanted to set the stage with the […]

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