Prospect Retrospective: Herb Jones

Analysis | Stewart Zahn | September 6, 2024 

 

Getting back into the public NBA Draft sphere again, I thought it would be a good exercise (and an easier way to generate new content) to review some of my old reports from nearly 3 years ago to see what I got right and what I got wrong, and delve into … Read more

   

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Warriors Create Contract Alignment

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

   

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GG Jackson: The Next Second Round Star

NBA Articles | Taylor Wyman | 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

   

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Sabrina Ionescu Has Reclaimed the Glory of the Combo Guard

WNBA Articles | Lucas Kaplan | 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

   

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Spotting the Stars

Analysis | Matt | August 7, 2024 

 

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

   

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Finding a Role: Dominick Barlow

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

   

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2024 NBPA Top-100 Scouting Report: Notes, Film, Quotes, and Data Visualizations on 70 Standout Players

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

   

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Analyzing Golden State’s Offseason Acquisitions: De’Anthony Melton

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

   

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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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