Overreacting To The NBA Summer League

Basketball Players in the NBA Summer League

The 2025 NBA Summer League has concluded, and as usual, the reactions and overreactions were as much a part of the 16-day, three-city event as the games themselves. This year, the four-team tournaments in Salt Lake City and San Francisco tipped off barely a week after the NBA Draft was … Read more

A Skeptical Look At The NBA In-Season Tournament

Las Vegas, site of the latter stages of the 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament

The National Basketball Association ranks as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the world. Fans of the league suffer through the interminable NBA-free months of August and September in anticipation of the start of a new season. But despite its popularity, there are some issues the league … Read more

The Other End Of The Basketball Court

Engraving_Bill Russell Statue

Ask any number of fans what the object of the game of basketball is and you’ll likely hear something about putting the ball in the basket and having more points at the end of the game than your opponent. While that is not incorrect, you are less likely to hear … Read more

Why NBA Late-Season Stats Are Deceiving

Basketball Going Through Hoop

The seasoned viewer of the National Basketball Association recognizes that game action during the final weeks of the regular season is different from what the early season games offer. After the All-Star break, with most of the playoff and lottery spots already decided, teams and players shift gears and the … Read more

Not All NBA Back-To-Backs Are The Same

Airplane, Blue Sky, Full Moon

The National Basketball Association’s staff tasked with creating the league’s annual schedule of games always face a daunting task. In addition to giving consideration to things like venue availability, the NBA schedule-makers must also factor in the league’s honest attempt to reduce the number of games each team will play … Read more

Ben Simmons Was Born Too Late

Philadelphia Skyline

NBA fans in Philadephia and beyond are eagerly awaiting the resolution of the Ben Simmons situation, one of the biggest stories in the NBA, where the player has allegedly vowed never to play for the hometown 76ers team again. Evidently, the feeling is mutual, and the pressure is on the … Read more

In New York City, The 2021-22 NBA Season Can’t Start Soon Enough

The Manhattan Bridge from the Brooklyn side.

In New York City, fans of local professional sports have always had plenty of options, With two franchises in each of the major team sports, there are increased odds, at least in theory, that a competitive team will emerge from so many entries. So here we are in late September … Read more

THE NBA’S SMALL-MARKET BLUES

Skyline of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, home of the NBA's Bucks

The National Basketball Association’s 2020-21 campaign has been full of surprises. The Phoenix Suns and the Utah Jazz finished the regular season with the top two records in the Western Conference. The defending champion Los Angeles Lakers had to survive a play-in game to qualify for the postseason. The Knicks … Read more

2021 NBA Play-In Tournament Grades

Memphis Grizzlies Home Game at the FedEx Forum

That’s right. The 2021 NBA Play-In Tournament is now over, and it’s time to assess. If pundits can grade a team’s draft performance on the very next day and before any draftee suits up for a game at the professional level, there’s no problem with handing out grades for the … Read more

Pros And Cons Of The NBA Play-In Tournament

The Madison Square Garden Interior

For its 2020-2021 campaign, the ever-evolving National Basketball Association has decided to revamp its postseason format to include more teams. As a result, they’ve added some hurdles to playoff participation for some and offered playoff possibilities for others where they didn’t exist before without changing the number of playoff qualifiers, … Read more

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