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NBA Articles | Charlie Cummings
September 5, 2024
Folks, put down your magnifying glasses. Stop analyzing the Instagram bios—Laker fans, close that Photoshop window. Steph Curry isn’t going anywhere. After signing a 1-year, $62.6M extension, the maximum allowable amount on top of his existing 2-year/$ … Read more
August 16, 2024
GG Jackson II might be the next star plucked out of the shadow realm that is the second round of the NBA draft. As a rookie, he averaged 15 points a game and shot 36% from the three (6 attempts a game). He has the physical tools and coordination to be … Read more
August 15, 2024
Sabrina Ionescu has fully arrived in 2024 as one of the WNBA’s very best players. That might sound like the same thing many were saying in 2022 and 2023, though. She made the All-WNBA Second Team in each of those seasons, and in the pre-Caitlin Clark/A … Read more
With this study I wanted to keep it simple and start from the top: what do the best of the very best have in common? Rather than take a statistically-minded approach, I searched for visual cues that were consistent across the sixteen best players draft … Read more
NBA Articles | Charlie Cummings
August 5, 2024
Despite being only 21 years old, Dominick Barlow has already secured his place in history. Okay, it’s not the history you’ll read in social studies class, or even on Basketball Reference. Barlow has the distinction of being the first player out of the … Read more
Amateur Basketball | Ryan Kaminski
July 23, 2024
featuring Chris Cenac Jr., Meleek Thomas, Jaylen Petty, Davis Fogle, Acaden Lewis, Kaden Magwood, Kiyan Anthony, Dwayne Aristode, Malachi Moreno, Marcus Jackson, Jacob Wilkins, Brayden Burries, Tounde Yessoufou, Dante Allen, King Grace, Nykolas Lewis, … Read more
NBA Articles | Charlie Cummings
July 19, 2024
Well, this is a rare thing to discuss: a Warriors mid-level exception signing. Golden State finally wound down its heinous tax bill with the departures of Klay Thompson and Chris Paul, opening up the full mid-level exception. With that exception, they … Read more
2024 NBA Draft Articles, NBA Draft Articles | Matt
July 11, 2024
“My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must tr … Read more
July 11, 2024
Small lineups exist at every high level of basketball, but not because they are small. The hoops world has accepted this, that what’s termed as ‘small-ball’ is slightly misleading, if not a misnomer. It’s really ‘skill-ball,’ a designation that I canno … Read more
July 11, 2024
Great playoff scoring runs are some of the most exciting things in sports, but how do they stack up to each other? Comparing playoff stats has always been difficult. Players play different amounts of games, and individual series can have drastically di … Read more