NBA

One of the observations fans might have as they devour a full slate of NBA action (and hopefully are able to take advantage of free league pass) is the fact that there are a great deal of international players littered across NBA rosters. There are 113 internationally born players on NBA rosters at the moment, [...]

While it seemed bleak over the past year or so, there are several indications that the players and the owners have improved tremendously towards reaching a new collective bargaining agreement and avoiding another potential lockout at the beginning of the 2017-18 season. Both sides are expected to opt out of the current CBA at the [...]

Advanced statistics and analytics website Five Thirty Eight is back at it again with another outside of the box and interesting piece about the association. They are breaking down which teams in the NBA are the tallest and throwing in some other crazy facts about the amount of height in the NBA in general. In [...]

Every year before the beginning of a new season the NBA conducts a survey with the 30 general managers across the league to get a pulse on where these execs think the league is heading and what they project for the upcoming season. The poll is anonymous so a GM can’t be ridiculed for any [...]

For NBA junkies like myself, the past month since the Olympics ended have been a time to ponder the meaning of life and what it is missing in the dog days of the NBA offseason, but for those who are itching to watch NBA players in real games (even if they are meaningless) this weekend [...]

Popular, ESPN affiliated statistical analysis website Fivethirtyeight posted some interesting numbers about the affect an Olympic basketball experience has on NBA stars in their regular season. Many assume, and understandably so, that players who add in the grind of a month long Olympic experience to shorten their already brief offseason would end up hampered by [...]

Coming into the Rio Olympics, the only team that was viewed as having any real shot to put a scare into the U.S. Men’s Olympic team was the Spanish National Team. Boasting an abundance of NBA talent and high level European experience and having lost to the Americans in the gold medal game in 2008 [...]

We have a Christmas present for you…in the middle of August…more than four months before actual Christmas: The New York Knicks and Boston Celtics will square off in the Big Apple on December 25. This news comes via The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor: [tweet https://twitter.com/KevinOConnorNBA/status/763194534050222080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This marks a triumphant return to the Christmas Day slate for [...]

Larry Sanders is very a enigmatic, wild-card of an athletic, rim-protecting big man who decided he no longer wanted to play in the NBA midway through the 2014-15 season after four seasons in the league. There have been some murmurs for a while now that Larry Sanders has decided he would like to be an [...]

It wasn’t long ago it seemed like the NBA would successfully avoid its second lockout in less than seven years. Both the league and the NBPA can opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement in 2017, though the side that opts out must notify its counterpart by December. But that didn’t matter. It felt [...]