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 | 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

   

AnalysisMatt | 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

   

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 ArticlesLucas Kaplan | May 4, 2023 

 

Anthony Davis is undeniable. That it seems possible, if not likely, that he will end his career without a Defensive Player of the Year award is solely made tolerable by the fact that, hey, Tim Duncan never won one either. As if we needed any more evide … Read more

   

 

Few good ideas come from conversations in the back of a Lyft post-midnight. A few weeks ago, while going from bar to apartment to inevitably discuss cryptids and antigravity technology, an idea was born. My friend (who I will not name, but he knows who … Read more

   

NBA ArticlesNick | May 2, 2023 

 

Western Conference Semifinals Preview Stephen Curry vs LeBron James. A rivalry that defines this generation of the NBA will potentially have its last dance and like the infamous football/soccer coach, Pep Guardiola, once said—”we will be there” (not ac … Read more

   

NBA ArticlesCharlie Cummings | April 20, 2023 

 

I don’t want to take anything away from the Kings, who are incredibly talented and play a beautiful brand of winning basketball. But the first two games felt like the Warriors stood in the same spot and dug a 15-foot hole straight down and became shock … Read more

   

NBA ArticlesCharlie Cummings | April 15, 2023 

 

Does that thought scare you? It should. The Warriors will play the Kings in their first-ever playoff matchup between division rivals. Both sides are laden with stars: Sacramento boasts one of the better offensive duos in the league in De’Aaron Fox and … Read more