By Harrison Chase and Nathaniel Ver Steeg In our last post, we looked at player progression in the NBA. We considered many variables, but two that we did not talk about are coaches and teams. It is reasonable to conclude that...
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By Harrison Chase, Nathaniel Ver Steeg, and Daniel Smith One of the most important jobs of any NBA team is player development. For as much money is spent on scouts and coaches to find and develop the potential of players...
By Barrett Hansen The NBA’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) award has had its fair share of controversy in its half-century history. As in baseball, football and hockey, the MVP is currently determined by a panel of sportswriters...
By Harrison Chase Coming off a fifty win season last year, the Golden State Warriors fired coach Mark Jackson and brought in unproven Steve Kerr. The results have nothing short of amazing. They have been the best team in the...
With so much craziness happening yesterday, we figured we’d give you a two-for-one special, featuring the record levels of trades and the epic tank job by the Sixers. Harrison Chase: The 2015 NBA trade deadline was the...
By William Ezekowitz Klay Thompson’s third quarter was stuff of video game-esque proportions, the likes of which we have never really seen in real life. The man scored 29 points in 6 minutes. In the whole third quarter he was...
By Harrison Chase When J.R. Smith got traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers a few weeks ago in a multi-team deal, many great articles were written commemorating his time in New York. Rather than rehash these glorious moments, I...
By Julian Ryan In the first blockbuster trade of the season, former Celtics star Rajon Rondo was swapped for a first-round pick and some useful role players– Brandan Wright, with his high field goal percentage, has been a...
By Julian Ryan This past weekend Kobe Bryant passed Michael Jordan for third on the career NBA points scoring leaderboard. While perhaps he has never quite been the player MJ was, his resume is undeniably impressive and he will...
By Julian Ryan The Philadelphia 76ers are really bad at basketball. It’s starting to get awkward. We thought last year’s version of random dudes that actively tanked was bad, but is it possible this season’s team is even...