The 2020-21 NBA season has been in action for a couple of weeks now, and the stats have begun to stabilize. (Somewhat.) So it is now time for us to roll out the newest edition of our RAPTOR NBA player ratings dashboard, with updated data to help you track the best players in the league […]
Earlier this month, before the Nuggets pulled off another improbable series comeback, I asked 7-footer Nikola Jokić about the patient, glacially paced style he uses on offense. In a hyper-athletic NBA, in which the speed limit is 70, the Denver star operates at … something much, much less. “I’m patient because I cannot really run […]
An entire documentary could, and perhaps should, be done on the Denver Nuggets, who played the part of “dead man walking” in each of their playoff series before doing the unthinkable and coming back from a 3-1 deficit twice. There would be a spotlight on Gary Harris, formerly one of the league’s best role players, […]
ROOOAAARRRRR! (Do raptors roar?) In case you missed it, we recently launched our new metric for evaluating NBA players, which we’re calling RAPTOR: Robust Algorithm (using) Player Tracking (and) On/Off Ratings. Since we have this nifty new stat, we can finally tackle, and hopefully help settle, some oft-debated player rankings. Is Kemba Walker really an […]
During one of the wildest offseasons on record, the Denver Nuggets have largely been an afterthought. Of the other top-five seeds out West from last season, the Warriors lost Kevin Durant and added D’Angelo Russell; the Rockets swapped Chris Paul in a deal for Russell Westbrook; the Jazz dealt for point guard Mike Conley; and […]