Lessons from the Draft Cycle

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

   

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On the New York Liberty, Who Maximize and Re-Define ‘Size’

WNBA Articles | Lucas Kaplan | 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

   

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Top Ten Playoff Scorers of 2024

NBA Articles | Taylor Wyman | 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

   

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Utah’s Two Timelines of Bad

NBA Articles | Charlie Cummings | July 10, 2024 

 

While watching the 2024 draft, a friend called me out of the blue with a thought: are the Jazz, his favorite team, running two timelines of tanking? And it got the wheels spinning. We all remember the Warriors’ two-timeline plan: one championship core … Read more

   

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Sayonara, Klay Thompson

NBA Articles | Charlie Cummings | July 1, 2024 

 

Depression is a strange thing. Those who know me are aware I’ve battled depression for as long as I can remember. It has its way of scaling up and down, often at random. The milder times feel like carrying a rock in your pocket. It’s there, you’re awar … Read more

   

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Zach Lavine: The Wages of Perception

NBA Articles | Kris | June 30, 2024 

 

When I was 18, I spent a summer working for Costco. Most of my job involved collecting shopping carts strewn across the parking lot, stacking them up, and pushing them back to the front of the store for customers to use. Speed and efficiency were param … Read more

   

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Are Reed Sheppard and Rob Dillingham the Last Great Kentucky Guards?

2024 NBA Draft Articles, NBA Draft Articles | Will Morris | June 26, 2024 

 

This past April, John Calipari shocked the college basketball landscape by parting ways with Kentucky and joining the Arkansas Razorbacks. While in Lexington, Cal helped develop countless stars who are dominating the NBA today. In particular, the numbe … Read more

   

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Breaking Convention: Reed Sheppard, Jonathan Mogbo, and Identifying Stable Production

2024 NBA Draft Articles, NBA Draft Articles | Ahmed Jama | June 26, 2024 

 

With the NBA season coming to a close and the 2024 draft on the horizon, 28 teams are forced to reflect upon their standing within the league. The juxtaposition between the stated goal of The Finals, and the greatest means of reaching said goal in the … Read more

   

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Nikola Topić Scouting Report: On Complementary Skills, NBA Defenses, and Skill Acquisition

2024 NBA Draft Articles, NBA Draft Articles | Lucas Kaplan | June 25, 2024 

 

Paul the Apostle really cooked when he became the first published writer to refer to the body as a “temple”. While Paul was urging followers of Christ to “honor God with their bodies,” and though the metaphor has became over-saturated to the point that … Read more

   

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The Edey Enigma: A Systematic Defense of a Generational Talent

2024 NBA Draft Articles, NBA Draft Articles | Avinash Chauhan | June 25, 2024 

 

Basketball holds a purpose beyond mere competition; it is an arena for beauty’s spectacle. Why are we so captivated by the grace and agility of players, if not for an evolutionary push that overshoots its mark, turning a simple game into a display of h … Read more

   

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