NBA

Tanking, long a dirty little secret in the NBA dating back even to the 1990s (the 1996-97 Spurs tanked to get the No. 1 pick and draft Tim Duncan…) has became so egregious and thinly veiled over the past decade with the 76ers making it in vogue and doing it rather successfully that the cat [...]

The cold and harsh winter that many free agents have dealt with these past two summers after teams went on spending sprees in the 2016 off-season may finally be coming to an end. This also means that the head-scratching contracts may be returning very soon. According to Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports (where are you [...]

Basketball became a truly international game after the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, and while the love for the game has spread throughout Europe and some Asian countries, there is one Asian country and culture the NBA is trying to establish itself in: India. The league has been trying to present the game of professional basketball [...]

The NCAA has dealt with a lot of scrutiny in recent years (fully warranted) and after the FBI probe of college basketball it is fully aware that its archaic institution is in some need of change. That process has started as the NCAA announced that it will now allow undrafted players to return to college [...]

NBA schedule #SZN is here! Though the NBA will release the entire schedule for the 2018-19 season on Wednesday evening, but part of its slate has already started trickling out. And why would we expect anything else? This is the NBA we’re talking about. Actual dates and deadlines do not matter. We always get armed [...]

As you probably know or may have guessed by now, the NBA waits to reveal their regular season award winners after the NBA Playoffs and NBA Draft with an award show after the season. While in theory this is a good idea and provides some fun drama around the awards, waiting around for over two [...]

David Blatt wants another crack at coaching in the NBA. Fortunately for him, the New York Knicks have an opening and might maybe, just possibility, be willing to give him a shot. And it’s a shot he oh-so-desperately wants: [tweet https://twitter.com/MikeVorkunov/status/987181227424837632] Some people will immediately respond with the question of whether Blatt deserves another shot [...]

There is a large discrepancy between the salaries of NBA players and their G-League counterparts. According to data pulled from Statista, the average NBA salary for the 2017-18 season is about $7 million. Contrast that with the average G-League salary being between $19,000 and $26,000 this past season. This is the major reason why the [...]

The NBA doesn’t expect to see its salary-cap projections for this year or next year change by considerable margins. In a memo it sent to teams, the financial forecasts for the next two seasons remained largely the same, per Basketball Insiders’ Eric Pincus: [tweet https://twitter.com/EricPincus/status/986003181174898688] Some other food for thought as well: [tweet https://twitter.com/EricPincus/status/986003974925893632] The [...]

With the way the current system is set up, if you are a team that is hovering in the middle of the NBA hierarchy and don’t have a transcendent star to become a contender, the best course of action is usually to blow up your roster and start to rebuild. In order to do that [...]