Coming into this season, it would have been hard to imagine a harder, faster fall from grace for the Golden State Warriors. Even after a surprising win Monday night over Portland, they have managed just two victories a couple weeks into the season, all while owning the worst defense, by far, in the league to […]
Ever since Luka Dončić and Trae Young were swapped on draft night back in 2018, it seems you can’t mention one without hearing of the other. Their paths in the NBA may always be linked and riddled with questions and comparisons. Which team won the trade? Who’s the better player? Each player has started his […]
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for the Golden State Warriors — who had already been on the wrong end of two blowouts in their first week of play and were headed for a third on Wednesday — worse came crashing down onto the floor of the new Chase Center. In the […]
When the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook’s 2019-20 NBA championship odds first opened back in May, the Golden State Warriors were the early favorites to win this season’s title. At +175, the Warriors’ odds implied a 36 percent chance to win the championship — pretty high in absolute terms, but low relative to recent Warriors odds, […]
Now that we’ve thoroughly broken down the best and worst — sorry again, Collin Sexton — players of the player-tracking era (since 2013), let’s zoom out to look at a larger slice of NBA history. As a refresher, we just introduced a new player rating metric, RAPTOR — the Robust Algorithm (using) Player Tracking (and) […]