If we turn back the clock precisely a week ago, there was a man who made a particularly bold claim: The red-hot Mavericks, fresh off embarrassing the top-seeded Suns, would also go on to knock off the Warriors to reach the NBA Finals. The column laid out valid enough reasoning, highlighting ...
As we advance to the conference finals, we have a rarity: There isn’t an odds-on favorite to win the NBA championship. The Warriors hold the best odds of the four remaining teams, perhaps because their track record of recent success with this core is so much more extensive than that of the other ...
If you’ve watched the NBA for long enough, you’ve undoubtedly seen the league go through its fair share of seismic changes. Salaries have exploded, with the average annual number per player being nearly 10 times higher than it was during the early 1990s. Then there’s the proliferation of ...
After all this time, perhaps many of us simply forgot. The Bucks led the NBA in defensive efficiency during the 2018–19 season, then earned the distinction again in 2019–20. After a dropoff to ninth-best during the 2020–21 regular season, Milwaukee clamped down when it mattered most, not only ...