Midway through Luka Dončić’s rookie season, the Dallas Mavericks seized on an opportunity that doesn’t come around all that often. Then-New York Knicks star Kristaps Porziņģis, still recovering from an ACL tear at the time, informed Knicks management that he wanted out of New York. Mere hours after news of the fateful meeting between Porziņģis […]
There is perhaps no more valuable commodity in the NBA at the moment than space. The best offenses go all out to manufacture it, flooding the floor with as many shooters and playmakers as possible in an effort to stretch point-prevention units to their limits. Top defenses, meanwhile, do everything in their power to erase […]
In Game 3 of the 2020 NBA Finals, with the Miami Heat down 0-2 and their championship hopes crumbling, Jimmy Butler turned in the most impressive performance of his career: a 40-point, 11-rebound, 13-assist triple-double in which he made 70 percent of his shots and defended LeBron James on more plays than any other player […]
Heading into the season’s restart, Boston Celtics point guard Kemba Walker was one of the league’s more important on-court question marks, as Boston’s highest-paid player, assist-rate leader and second scoring option. Early on, lingering discomfort in his left knee forced him to play on a minutes restriction, and before the bubble, he had passed the […]
The biggest move of the 2019 offseason for the Miami Heat was trading for Jimmy Butler. He was the star that locked everything into place and established the team’s floor as a probable playoff squad. But the Heat — currently tied with the Celtics for third in the Eastern Conference — could not have raised […]