Zac Wassink

Zac Wassink is a longtime sports news writer and PFWA member who began his career in 2006 and has had his work featured on Yardbarker, MSN, Yahoo Sports and Bleacher Report. He is also a football and futbol aficionado who is probably yelling about Tottenham Hotspur at the moment and who chanted for Matt Harvey to start the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field. You can find him on X at @ZacWassink.

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NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, Premier League, MLS, US Soccer, UFC

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April 2, 2020 | NBA

Each NBA team's most impressive rookie for 2019-20

The truth of the matter is that most teams have far more questions than answers regarding the possibility that current rookies will become cornerstones to championship rosters by 2025.

March 25, 2020 | NBA

The 25 best NBA player nicknames

Many NBA nicknames are easier to explain and understand than others...

March 10, 2020 | NBA

The next likely jersey retirement for every NBA team

Can Giannis Antetokounmpo, Trae Young, Zion Williamson and others from this generation match the achievements accomplished by the likes of Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant?

February 25, 2020 | NBA

The shortest players in NBA history

Keep shooting, shorter young bloods. There’s hope for you, yet.

February 25, 2020 | NBA

The tallest players in NBA history

It’s an inconvenient and harsh truth that so many basketball players encounter during their youths as they advance through school and face bigger and better competition on indoor and outdoor courts: You can’t teach height.

February 12, 2020 | NBA

NBA All-Star Game uniforms throughout the years

NBA All-Star Games are as much fashion shows as they are competitive and meaningful exhibitions between squads attempting to proudly represent conferences...

February 10, 2020 | NBA

The best moments in NBA All-Star Game history

Legends like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James padded Hall of Fame resumes with historic All-Star performances, and the hope is that the Association’s revolving-door youth moment will follow in their footsteps and make All-Star Games must-watch television beyond the start of the 2020s.

January 17, 2020 | NBA

NBA awards watch at the season's midway point

If the opening half of the 2019-20 NBA season offered any indication, this spring’s award season will be rather anticlimactic...

January 16, 2020 | NBA

25 questions heading into the second half of the NBA season

Second overall draft pick Ja Morant of the Grizzlies is the runaway leader for Rookie of the Year. Can Zion Williamson still make a run? Yardbarker's Zac Wassink addresses key questions.

January 15, 2020 | NBA

NBA players who should be first-time All-Stars

There are only so many available slots on NBA All-Star squads, meaning recognizable veterans and rookies attempting to break through glass ceilings are ultimately snubbed in fan voting and player-selection processes each season.

December 31, 2019 | NBA

Every NBA team's big question mark heading into 2020

With what could be a historic free agency class and with a potential lockout looming, it’s not hyperbolic to suggest the 2020s could be the most monumental decade for the NBA since the merger.

December 12, 2019 | NBA

Ranking the five-year windows of every NBA franchise

One can’t predict the future. Who would’ve guessed in December 2010 that LeBron James would return to Cleveland four years later and then guide the Cavaliers to a title that would end the city’s 52-year championship drought?

December 11, 2019 | NBA

The most impressive NBA rookies so far this season

There have been several impressive rookies in the NBA so far this season...

December 3, 2019 | Tennis

The 30 best tennis players of the 2010s

The 2010s told tales of two competitions in the world of tennis. A dominant triumvirate won the majority of Grand Slam titles in the men’s game, and the individual who could go down as the greatest singles player in history experienced somewhat of a career resurgence as he approached the end of his playing days.

December 3, 2019 | MMA

The 30 best MMA fighters of the 2010s

The 2010s were, to date, the most significant decade in the history of mixed martial arts...

November 26, 2019 | NBA

The most surprising NBA players thus far

By Thanksgiving, NBA contenders have, for the most part, separated themselves from pretenders and from clubs doomed to spend the majority of the season in the lower halves of the conference standings.

November 22, 2019 | LA Galaxy

The 30 best soccer players of the 2010s

Inevitably, legendary and elite male and female players were snubbed from this list because only so many slots exist. One could easily produce a solid starting XI using groupings of footballers from the 2010s who didn’t make the cut here...

November 21, 2019 | NBA

The most surprising developments of NBA season so far

If you’re the type of basketball fan who yearns for offseason drama to continue through the start of a campaign, the first month of the 2019-20 NBA season didn’t disappoint you...

November 19, 2019 | NFL

2019 NFL awards watch

The league’s MVP race is heating up, as a pair of quarterbacks separated themselves from the pack and put their teams in positions to host multiple postseason games. Rookie of the Year battles may be settled before Christmas, though, as a running back and pass rusher seem to already have possession of those trophies.

November 15, 2019 | NFL

NFL players, coaches and GMs on the hot seat

Both New York football franchises require significant changes to improve. The most disappointing NFL organization of the 2010s once again spectacularly failed its devoted fan base, minus an unforeseen and historic turnaround. Then, there are the Dallas Cowboys...