The 2015-16 Golden State Warriors were without a doubt one of the greatest NBA teams of all time. The Warriors won a regular-season-record 73 games, and had their season ended five (in-game) minutes earlier, would be back-to-back champions. Had their fate taken a tiny turn — or had two-time MVP Stephen Curry not been affected […]
Few point guards in NBA history have the résumé to go toe-to-toe with Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers. So how can it be that he’s never played in the conference finals? The battle lines on the topic of Chris Paul are well defined. On the one side, you have supporters of Chris Paul, […]
Few point guards in NBA history have the résumé to go toe-to-toe with Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers. So how can it be that he’s never played in the conference finals? The battle lines on the topic of Chris Paul are well defined. On the one side, you have supporters of Chris Paul, […]
You’re reading Back of the Envelope, an experiment that aims to bring shorter, quicker content to FiveThirtyEight. When is a loss just a loss, and when is it a harbinger of things to come? On Tuesday night, the Chicago Cubs and the Golden State Warriors took hard losses in very different settings: Game 1 of […]
You’re reading Back of the Envelope, an experiment that aims to bring shorter, quicker content to FiveThirtyEight. When is a loss just a loss, and when is it a harbinger of things to come? On Tuesday night, the Chicago Cubs and the Golden State Warriors took hard losses in very different settings: Game 1 of […]
