The Thunder finished the 24-25 season with the best Net Rating in the NBA, ahead of the Cavaliers who jumped from 13th a season ago. Read more »
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Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
What Of The 2025 Dark Horse Contenders?
Big, glitzy talents are often given a longer leash by fans, expected to contend for titles even after non-dominant regular seasons. Even in this parity era, the odds of those teams actually winning a title remain slim. Read more »
Why The Luka Trade Will Never Be Forgiven
Luka Doncic has meant something more than what wins and losses do. He is famous, himself, and alive in a way that is wholly original and that will likely prove timeless. Read more »
Lakers' Exceptionalism Vs. Mavericks' More Toward A More Conventional Goodness
Whereas the Lakers' inevitable jackpot is proof of how the league works, the Mavs are foolishly clinging to a fantasy about how it should be. Read more »
Who Are The Lakers And Mavericks Now?
Unwilling to see Luka Doncic through whatever plagues him, the Mavericks just sent him to a task much harder than the one they'd given him. If he can do it, basketball mythology will have to revise its definition of "forever." Read more »
LeBron James' Old Man Reinvention
The Lakers are caught between pragmatism and hope, torn between optimizing their new, Luka Doncic-led future and maximizing their current, LeBron James-led present. Read more »
LeBron's Fascinating Brand New Last Act With Luka Doncic
In Luka Doncic, the Lakers have their bridge to the future, but LeBron James also has his bridge to another career-defining chapter. Read more »
The NBA Just Changed
Overnight with the Luka Doncic trade, the NBA moved out of the superstar empowerment era and into one where teams build within the jammed-puzzle machinations of its new CBA. Read more »
Bronny James, Kendrick Perkins And What The Media Chooses To Cover
As ESPN continues its nonstop Bronny James coverage, they also published a report on a NIL-related financial scheme involving one of their own high profile analysts. Read more »
The Realest: D'Angelo Russell And The Los Angeles Lakers
D'Angelo Russell has assumed the long thankless role of being the second-best teammate for LeBron James as the all-time great either carries you or is failed by you. Read more »
Best Fits, Shaky Fits From 2024 NBA Draft
On Cody Williams, Isaiah Collier, Kyle Filipowski, Ron Holland, Dalton Knecht, Stephon Castle, Rob Dillingham, AJ Johnson and Kel'el Ware. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
The Celtics finished in the top spot in Net Rating for the second straight season, while the Thunder jumped up from 28th to 14th to second. Read more »
The Biggest X-Factors Of The 2024 NBA Playoffs
Some names are bigger than others, but from Jaylen Brown and Luka Doncic to Donte DiVincenzo and Chet Holmgren, here are the 10 biggest playoff X-factors. Read more »
The Lakers And Bulls Need Each Other
A Zach LaVine trade is not an ideal scenario for either the Lakers or the Bulls- not now, and not after they potentially make this trade. But there aren't superior options on the table, or even on the horizon for two teams that need some humble reorganization. Read more »
We've Witnessed The Birth Of A New NBA Tradition
Here we are, at the start of something, which one of the greatest players of all time felt strongly enough about to make it an important conquest in his shockingly lengthy farewell cruise. Read more »
NBA's Top Wing Trios Ranked
We've ranked every team's wing corps from 1 to 30 based on the top three wings' production, upside and versatility. Read more »
A Pastless And Futureless State
You wonder if, given the choice, LeBron James would transform into his younger self. It would improve his championship odds, but his total understanding of the sport would diminish. Read more »
The Lakers And Nuggets, After Purgatory
Since their meeting in the 2020 bubble, the Lakers and Nuggets had two seasons lost due to key injuries. Denver is now a little older and at their competitive zenith while LeBron and A.D. may not have this good of a chance together again. Read more »
LeBron James, Millennial Superhero
As the Lakers overtook the Grizzlies, the most staunchly anti-LeBron minds of his generation warped in real-time, before us, into the Boomers they so gleefully mock. James is now a totemic mirror for elder millennials in a way that no other American athlete has been. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
The Celtics finished first in Net Rating ahead of the Cavaliers, who jumped up from 13th last season and 28th as recently as 2021. Read more »
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