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The KD And Kyrie Trades Stole The Show At A Wild NBA Trade Deadline

For the second consecutive season, the Brooklyn Nets made a league-shaking deal at the NBA trade deadline. Almost exactly a year after shipping James Harden to the Philadelphia 76ers and just a few days after unceremoniously dumping Kyrie Irving on the Dallas Mavericks, the Nets sent Kevin Durant and T.J. Warren to the Phoenix Suns […]

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Everyone’s A Favorite In Our 2022-23 NBA Forecast

When the 2022-23 NBA season begins next week, our RAPTOR prediction model sees a league with a field of title contenders more wide-open than at any time in recent history. Philadelphia 76ers president Daryl Morey famously once said that any team with at least a 5 percent chance of winning the championship should be all-in […]

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How The Suns Came Crashing Down To Earth

The Phoenix Suns finished the regular season with the NBA’s best record, eight games better than the next closest team. They led the league in net rating and were the only team in the league to sport a top-five offense and a top-five defense. And yet, their disastrous defeat Sunday at the hands of the […]

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How NBA Teams Change Their Game In Clutch Time

Though coaching orthodoxy has long maintained that 2 points at any moment in a given game are equivalent, the choices of many NBA coaches at the end of close games this season would beg to differ. Perhaps LeBron James was right when he said “2 points ain’t 2 points.”  Across the league, many NBA offenses […]

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