2025 NBA Draft ArticlesMatt | July 8, 2025 

 

When you evaluate a basketball player, what do you see? Do you take in the highlights, note the schematic or technical execution or simply look for the skillsets you value? There are infinite ways to watch and evaluate, something I believe is underappr … Read more

   

 

“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

   

 

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

   

 

Welcome to my big board! While I may have some far out of consensus takes, I assure you my process is done thoughtfully with careful tape review, statistical deep dives and rigorous methodology updates. I was open with my process this year, grading pla … Read more

   

 

Sequels. Everyone’s seen at least one, everyone’s enjoyed the culmination of their favorite characters diving back into their world to achieve a new task, sometimes even exceeding expectations and driving you further into the mythos of that story. The … Read more

   

 

I struggled with the title of this piece, the third of three pieces on how I frame prospect analysis. This final installment will discuss a player’s athleticism, well, physical athleticism (not cognitive), but with an eye to dominance. I use the term f … Read more

   

 

Modern NBA bigs must operate smoothly with and without the ball. Ahead, we’ll define scalability and its specific features before diving into the bigs of the 2024 NBA Draft. When I evaluate a prospect’s offense, I ask myself these two questions first: … Read more