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I still remember the wild debates Davion, Dhevin and I had about the 2003 draft class and which players would be the most fun to watch. Davion couldn’t wait to see LeBron James suit up for Cleveland, Dhevin still believes in Carmelo Anthony and I was sold on Dwyane Wade after watching him at Marquette.
Dario Saric thriving in shadows of Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons
On Wednesday night, the Philadelphia 76ers trailed the Miami Heat by 24 points early in the third quarter and seemed poised for a letdown night with Joel Embiid sitting to rest a sore ankle.
Willy Hernangomez has a second chance to grow
After a promising rookie year that saw him earn First-Team All-Rookie honors, Willy Hernangomez was traded from the New York Knicks to the Charlotte Hornets amid frustrations about playing time from the 23-year-old big man.
Why this year's Super Bowl is worth watching
The best argument for watching the Super Bowl is that there really doesn’t need to be an argument at all. This is one of the least compelling matchups in what is arguably the least compelling time to watch professional football, and yet, it will be the most watched American television event because you, at the very least, have to pretend to care.
Six NBA trade deadline candidates and their ideal landing spots
With the NBA trade deadline rapidly approaching, there are a few teams that have some very specific needs, and a few other teams who have needs up and down the roster to either help turn around or save their season.
Enes Kanter's life off the court is just as compelling as his game
Enes Kanter has been wonderful for the New York Knicks. Traded from the Thunder for Carmelo Anthony in the offseason, he’s seen more opportunities to become the player we always knew he could be.
Devin Booker is expanding his game beyond getting buckets
“Once teams found out that I could actually play a little bit, I started seeing teams’ best defender,” Devin Booker told The Ringer. “So just going in
Jayson Tatum is making a living in the clutch
He’s been doing it all season. Big shots down the stretch. Huge defensive plays. The baseline dunk against Brooklyn. The James Harden block. The late-game, lead-expanding three in Detroit.
Donovan Mitchell is the NBA's most confident rookie
Donovan Mitchell’s confidence should be bottled and sold next to energy drinks in convenience stores. The Utah Jazz’s rookie is playing like a multi-year veteran, and Quin Snyder has no problem letting the kid learn on the job.
Catching up on the biggest stories of the young NBA season
The holiday season is always a great time to refresh and rehash everything that’s transpired in the NBA before we head into the new year. There have been plenty of surprises, like the underachieving Thunder and this overachieving rookie class.
Donald Trump's quotes vs. the sports world in 2017
Donald Trump was inaugurated to become the 45th president of the United States on Jan. 20 of this year, and more than any other president before him, he's found himself in an array of sports stories.
How Buddy Hield became the NBA's newest sniper
There’s a wild phenomenon going on in Sacramento right now: Every player is performing much better when coming off the bench. Willie Cauley-Stein has seen his scoring and rebounding averages jump from 7.5 points and 5.2 rebounds to 15.9 and 7.3 when moving from the starting lineup to the bench.
Joel Embiid and displacing fundamental truths
Everyone wants to talk about Joel Embiid, but what I want to talk about is the future that Joel Embiid’s short career alludes to. I want to talk about an NBA in which NBA titles only matter to provide context to a point in time instead of a watermarked description of what the league presumably was for that particular season.
Bradley Beal must embrace change to keep Wizards afloat
The players who capture the essence of any particular era are those who find comfort in, instead of shying away from, the variability that naturally comes with the game.
Anthony Davis may never escape his biggest flaw
The only negative thing to come of the emergence of this new swath of young talent is how quickly we forget the once-in-a-generation players who, for all intents and purposes, just got here.
Follow Ben Simmons as he leads us to the NBA's unknown future
It's midway through the third quarter, and Ben Simmons is initiating a horns set against the Los Angeles Lakers. Joel Embiid and Dario Saric have met Simmons at the top of the perimeter to set the requisite screens with Simmons 40 feet away from the basket, surveying the whole floor.
Andrew Wiggins is in search of new dimensions
Andrew Wiggins is a line, or at least on paper he is. On any 94 by 50 plane, Wiggins can only move from point A to point B, and point B is always buckets.
If the Knicks provide a blueprint, Kristaps Porzingis will build
No one was surprised when the New York Knicks dropped their first three games of the season. One glance at the roster could leave one perplexed for hours trying to figure out the direction the team is heading.
Giannis Antetokounmpo finally knows he can destroy you
Giannis Antetokounmpo. His name is a sentence in and of itself. From the way the 2017-18 season started, those 20 letters are all you need to know about the NBA right now.
Kyrie Irving must lead Celtics through a disaster in search for happiness
Kyrie Irving set a back screen on Jae Crowder then caught the ball at the top of the key off a curl from a screen set by Jaylen Brown. With Derrick Rose trailing the driving Irving and LeBron James sliding over to help, Irving lofted a floater over the late-arriving James and scored the first two points of the 2017-18 NBA season.
NBA superstars on new teams in 2017-18
The summer of 2017 was one of the craziest offseasons in NBA history with myriad NBA superstars finding new homes. Things kicked off with Jimmy Butler getting traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves on draft night and just escalated from there.
Nikola Jokic: A throwback superstar for the modern era
In an era that was ostensibly supposed to be dominated by an augmentation of quick, talented point guards, the most fascinating players have been the leviathan men with skill sets they should have outgrown in their adolescence.
After Carmelo Anthony trade, the Western Conference looks completely different
On September 25, the New York Knicks ended their relationship with Carmelo Anthony by trading him to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Enes Kanter, Doug McDermott and a 2018 second-round draft pick.
The 10 reasons why the Golden State Warriors will repeat as champions
The Golden State Warriors are the defending NBA champions again, and following their third-consecutive trip to the Finals, the 2017-18 could be the best version of the Splash Bros era.
10 teams that can unseat the Warriors in 2018
The Golden State Warriors have won two of the past three NBA Finals. The champs extended Kevin Durant for much less than the max, gave Stephen Curry the supermax and brought back Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston, David West and Zaza Pachulia.
