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By Danny Blumenthal and Andrew Puopolo As 2018 comes to a close, take a look back at the moments that made this sports year unforgettable. What were your favorite sports memories from 2018? Let us know in the comments. NFL...
By Andrew Puopolo After a poor start to the season compared to lofty preseason expectations, the Boston Celtics walked into the United Center on Saturday night riding a 4 game winning streak and feeling confident about beating...
By: Matty Cheng and Danny Blumenthal 82. The Utah Jazz had 82.9 field goal attempts per game, which was second-lowest in the league. However, 9 of the bottom 10 teams in field goal attempts per game made the playoffs. 81. As a...
By Erik Johnsson Over the past few seasons, the NBA has seen a rapid shift from the “ground-and-pound” style of the 90s and 2000s to the small ball, “pace-and-space” style of today. Now more than ever, it feels like...
By: Jake Levene and Zach Diamandis Around this time every year, a familiar but always exciting debate reignites: who should be the NBA’s MVP? There are familiar faces, such as Lebron James, who has been within the top 10 of MVP...
By Andrew Puopolo Earlier on in the NBA Playoffs, I was watching a game in which 5 or 6 possessions in a row ended in a foul. This got me wondering, do playoff games, on average, have more fouls than regular season games? Or was...
By Benedict Brady Following an incredibly exciting week for NBA twitter, we have decided to take a look at how NBA players interact with each other on twitter’s platform. While NBA players have relationships with each other...
By: Matty Cheng In the 2018 playoffs, the Golden State Warriors have typically dominated the third quarter, especially with Stephen Curry detonating, but is domination in the third quarter more important than doing so in the...
By Matty Cheng Not just any other game. December 2nd, 2010: new Miami Heat LeBron James’ revenge game against his former team, the Cavaliers. April 13th, 2013: Carmelo Anthony’s homecoming game against the Denver Nuggets he...
By Andrew Puopolo Last week, I wrote a piece about parity in the NFL. Many of the comments on that article claimed that since 5 out of the 6 NFC playoff teams differed from a year ago, there was plenty of parity in the NFL...