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2023 NBA Free Agency: Live Analysis
Running thoughts on early signings, with larger stories to come next week
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Offseason Preview: Southwest Division
Over the last several days, I have been going division-by-division through the league and laying out what decisions need to be made and what’s at stake for each NBA team this offseason. We’ve already completed the Eastern Conference, running through the Atlantic Division, the Central, and the Southeast.
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Offseason Preview: Northwest Division
Over the last several days, I have been going division-by-division through the league and laying out what decisions need to be made and what’s at stake for each NBA team this offseason. We’ve already completed the Eastern Conference, running through the Atlantic Division, the Central, and the Southeast.
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Offseason Preview: Pacific Division
Over the last several days, I have been going division-by-division through the league and laying out what decisions need to be made and what’s at stake for each NBA team this offseason. We’ve already completed the Eastern Conference, running through the Atlantic Division, the Central, and the Southeast.
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Offseason Preview: Southeast Division
Over the next several days, I’m going to go division-by-division through the league and lay out what decisions need to be made and what’s at stake for each NBA team this offseason. We began over the weekend with the Atlantic Division, continued yesterday with the Central, and move
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Offseason Preview: Central Division
Over the next several days, I’m going to go division-by-division through the league and lay out what decisions need to be made and what’s at stake for each NBA team this offseason. We started yesterday with the Atlantic Division, continue today with the Central, then move to the
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Offseason Preview: Atlantic Division
Over the next several days, I’m going to go division-by-division through the league and lay out what decisions need to be made and what’s at stake for each NBA team this offseason. We’ll start today with the Atlantic Division, then move to the Central, Southeast, Pacific, Northwest,
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How to feel about the Bradley Beal deal
The Bradley Beal trade — which is still yet to be finalized — is a seismic one for several reasons. First, it finally sets the Wizards on a course of not shooting for the back half of the playoff picture, and instead admitting that they need to pursue a different path to
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Inches
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An answer for everything
One game after they each posted a 30-plus-point triple-double while combining for 66 points on 43 shots to lead their team to a win on a night where they got almost nothing from their non-Christian Braun teammates, Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray shot a combined 13 of 36 from the
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How Jokic and Murray beat the Heat
Obviously, the big story coming out of Game 3 is Nikola Jokic putting up the first 30-point, 20-rebound triple-double in NBA Finals history, and Jamal Murray joining him with a 30-point triple-double of his own. But more than the numbers themselves, the way they were accumulated is what interests me.
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Is this the way?
Scattered thoughts on Game 2 of the Finals coming up… * In Game 1, Nikola Jokic scored 27 points on just 12 shot attempts (and 12 free throws) and racked up 14 assists, and the Nuggets won. In Game 2, Jokic had 41 points on 28 shots (and eight free throws)