NBA ArticlesCharlie Cummings | April 17, 2025 

 

4-1, 4-1, 4-3, 4-2. Those are the playoff matchup scores between Steph Curry’s Warriors and the Houston Rockets. Given that the four defeats occurred in five years, it’s no wonder Rockets fans have been inflicted with a thorough case of fast-acting CTE … Read more

   

NBA ArticlesCharlie Cummings | February 28, 2025 

 

After that whirlwind of a trade deadline, it was hard to predict the future of the Warriors in the short and long term. Typically, acquiring a player of Jimmy Butler’s caliber is unequivocally improving. The depth Golden State had to fork over, and the … Read more

   

NBA ArticlesCharlie Cummings | November 1, 2024 

 

If you put up a cloud of words used to describe the 2024/25 Warriors through the offseason, preseason, and first five games, the range of terms would be astounding. Washed, new-look, optionality, depth, timelines, things of that ilk. For me, the bigges … Read more

   

NBA ArticlesCharlie 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

   

NBA ArticlesCharlie 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

   

NBA ArticlesCharlie 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

   

NBA ArticlesCharlie Cummings | April 18, 2024 

 

In this age of cinema, very few successful franchises have escaped the ignominy of a terrible reboot. Star Wars has the shameful second and third trilogies (Revenge of the Sith exempt here). Jurassic Park has created a lot of slop. Ghostbusters continu … Read more

   

NBA ArticlesCharlie Cummings | March 31, 2024 

 

Brandin Podziemski is a rare player, for many reasons. Besides being a lefty who looks like the upper half of a centaur with a funky love of hook shots, his proficiency as a rebounder is nearly unparalleled among NBA guards. Podz rates as a 99th-percen … Read more

   

NBA ArticlesLucas Kaplan | February 27, 2024 

 

“Can you be porous defensively and win a championship? No, I don’t think you can be. [But] can you be adequate and be able to ramp it up when you need to, for a stretch in a game? It’s important.” That’s how ex-NBA’er Tim Legler described his baseline … Read more

   

NBA ArticlesCharlie Cummings | February 22, 2024 

 

I will say the two unnameable words around the Golden State Warriors. No, it’s not “fire Kerr”, “trade Klay”, “European bigs” or “affordable housing”. It’s two timelines. We know it didn’t work. The youth gave a minimal boost at best to the 2022 champi … Read more