The bummer here is not the East, but what they keep doing to our East. Sure, the East won the last title, took the 2025 Finals to seven games, won in 2024 and 2021 and 2019. Nice outputs, poorly sustained so far. At least those teams tried, even if it
These days, NBA franchises don't need a Lyle gun to grab hold of Oklahoma City. Not only were the 64-win Thunder nearly matched in the regular season by the 62-win San Antonio Spurs, the Thunder were topped by San Antonio in the Western finals. The Thunder
Not this whole time, from 2018 through 2026, that wasn't happening: Los Angeles always was. The one thing we've always known about LeBron James remains true in any imaginary instance, our hero was going hack at some point, he was always going to be a Laker.
NBA fans shoulda known once LeBron James' reps refused to limit the remaining clubs to two, declined to omit all but the favorites from Ohio and Florida. Golden State and Minnesota saw their fortunes rise and fall but Philadelphia never left the orbit. That he chose the 76ers is
LeBron James turns 42 in five months, no NBA player's been any good at age 42. Until LeBron, Robert Parish was the most effective two-way 41-year old in NBA history, and this is what that looked like: LeBron James could be marvelous at age 42, maybe
There is a crisis among the 30 NBA owners, soon to be flush with the expansion gifts from teams No. 31 and No. 32. The league's local broadcast lineups are in flux, save for a few major outlets, dipping the league's revenue a few percentage points
There is a hope, admittedly underfed, that the NBA's new insistence on obsessing over every spent penny will result in a rising valuation of the league's middle-class. Maybe, with so many franchises scowling at adding multiple maximum contracts to the ledger, the remaining salary cap
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Jaylen Brown was traded to Philadelphia for 36-year old Paul George, Philadelphia's unconditional 2031 first-round draft pick, a 2028 first-round pick swap, and two future second-round selections. A little sad, isn't it? The NBA's offseason, all four days of it,
So, we'll all find out in dutifully-sourced time from Pablo Torre how this Kawhi Leonard "basketball" feint was dropped to dissuade us from paying attention to Washington D.C.'s empty lawns at the America 250 celebration. To stop us from reflecting on the
According to ESPN, LeBron James is in Ohio right now and I don't blame James for announcing his Laker departure from home: Ohio is beautiful all times of year but in summer especially. It is a full twenty degrees (Fahrenheit) warmer in northern Ohio than it is in
Strange, super-intriguing, summer so far. The NBA possibly created more tanking than ever for the three years of this lottery reform, the worst kind, teams diving out of playoff contention and into the greedy arms of the eighth-worst record in the NBA. Then there was this second-round
When I was 19 I turned down the an evening with a pretty girl (with a car) in order to stay up overnight, on the internet and by myself, through the July 31-to-August 1 crossover in 1999, writing about all the NBA contract agreements piling up on Yahoo&