The Seattle Kraken have a heck of an act to follow. The Vegas Golden Knights — the NHL’s most recent expansion team before the soon-to-debut Kraken — flipped the struggling expansion team trope on its head when they hit the ice in 2017. Vegas famously went to the Stanley Cup Final in its first season, […]
Midway through the first quarter of Game 3 between the Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns, Giannis Antetokounmpo rejoined the game to replace Brook Lopez. Antetokounmpo had left the game earlier than usual, after only three and a half minutes, possibly to set up a small-ball group with the two-time MVP at center. The idea of […]
First, we take a look at the NBA Finals. Despite media takes swinging from the Suns being dominant to the Bucks having the edge, these teams remain closely matched. One of the joys of this series, in fact, is the chess match of how Phoenix and Milwaukee are adjusting to each other in each game. […]
Basketball has always been a strong-link sport. The “strong-link/weak-link” theory, first posited by authors Chris Anderson and David Sally in their 2013 book, “The Numbers Game,” is simple: A strong-link game is one where a team is generally as good as its best players allow it to be and a weak-link game refers to one […]
Lilly King is nothing if not candid. In the lead-up to the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, the two-time Olympic gold medalist boldly asserted that American women have the talent required to win every individual gold medal in Tokyo — a feat last accomplished in 1920, when there were only two individual swimming events for women. […]