Sitemap - 2020 - Good Morning It's Basketball

The Mavericks' red flag doubles as a matador cape

The Westbrook-Beal combo is not why the Wizards are 0-4

Tuesday scores and stuff

Letting go of the Warriors we knew

5 blow-outs underneath the tree

It's Christmas, watch some basketball!

The dumpster fire that is the Houston Rockets now engulfing other teams

Exactly the Paul George you want

What NBA expansion and realignment could look like

LaMelo, J-Will and stealing joy

17 unimpeachable predictions for the 2020-21 NBA season

13 NBA players it will be hella fun to watch in 2020-21

Giannis Antetokounmpo's extension is a mammoth victory for the Bucks and the NBA

Reasons to be hopeful about the NBA's 8 possibly atrocious teams

3 NBA teams that could be way better than you think

Introducing the 2020-21 League Pass Cup

The Clippers replace 1 dream and/or nightmare with another

James Harden, Anthony Davis and why there's no end to superstar empowerment in sight

Don't re-crown the Lakers yet

The NBA's worst contracts

James Harden doesn't care enough to effectively force a trade

Friday mailbag: Best PG coaches, play-in chances, Lakers syndrome, PACERS TALK

Is this what Russell Westbrook and John Wall had in mind?

Reviewing the NBA's Christmas schedule

The bubble was a supposedly successful thing the NBA will never do again

Like it or not, all eyes are on Giannis

Friday blurbs and links

Are the Hawks good now?

The Queen City gambit

The L.A. teams increased the gap in the West

The first 12 hours of NBA free agency were certainly odd

The biggest dominoes in NBA free agency (that we know about)

The most intriguing teams from Draft Day 2020

The NBA nailed its new, expanded play-in tournament

Knuck if you Buck

The wondrous potential of James Harden on the Nets

Creating a rock-solid NBA Christmas slate

The Rockets are on fire, and not in the good way

Wednesday blurbs and links: LaMelo, CP3 to Phoenix and more

The Hawks have everything they need for an exciting offseason

GMIB's First and Only 2020 NBA Mock Draft

It's done

All I want for Christmas is Jrue

Crisis diverted

Reminder: NBA owners have no real risk here

Daryl Morey can be aggressive and patient at the same time in Philly

The Buddy and Bogdan problem

How to think about the Milwaukee Bucks

What happens if the NBA comes back quick

Friday links

Of course the Timberwolves should trade the No. 1 pick

Much ado about Lu

The Rockets have little choice but to RUN IT BACK

For Daryl Morey's Rockets, every little edge was never quite enough

Friday mailbag: Jerami Grant, TV Ratings, Pistons existentialism

Watching the NBA's new front offices

The most stressful NBA head coaching jobs available, ranked

The Lakers aren't going anywhere

Bron, Brow and the O'Brien

The Lakers left the door ajar, and Jimmy Butler rammed through it

Why did Lawrence Frank win NBA Executive of the Year?

Does Chris Paul have another revival left?

The Lakers' greatest triumph is their defense

The problem with discrediting the Lakers' revival

Jimmy Butler went full LeBron

Finals destination

The Doc is back in

The Lakers opened with a masterpiece, and Anthony Davis was the artist

5 key aspects of Lakers vs. Heat

The Doc is not in

Heroes new and old

LeBron's jumper is off, and he's still a god

🎵 And then a Herro comes along 🎵

Resilience is a skill, and the Nuggets have it

Make NBA award ballots secret again

Anthony Davis arrives, even though he's been here all along

How LeBron fits into the myth of Lakers exceptionalism

Respect Erik Spoelstra

The Clippers are no longer in the driver's seat

There's something about Jimmy

Denver ain't no Jok

The crucibles of James Harden

The Toronto Raptors really are the *defending* NBA champs

What Giannis did and did not say

Ennui and excellence in L.A.

The Heat blew it, and it doesn't matter

The problem with Steve Nash isn't Steve Nash

The refs are not alright

The Jazz remain a work in progress

Chris Paul and the ruination of the Houston Rockets

The Raptors you have come to fear the most

Eyes up

This game is unavailable

The Clippers (with one exception) are mad or scared or both

This doesn't have to be the end of the Sixers as we know them

BANG! BANG!

Remembrance of Wiggins past

The Sixers swerved all right, right off the championship path

How worried should the top contenders be?

What ails the NBA

It's Monday in the middle of August. Time for the NBA playoffs

May the Basketball Gods smile upon the Brooklyn Nets

The NBA playoff bracket is ALMOST set

The NBA Bubble runs on Dame Standard Time

Why are the second-tier West teams trying to lose?

Every day should be Suns day

Stop worrying about the NBA's elite teams for, like, a week

Breaking: The Grizzlies are in trouble

The West play-in chase is fantastic, and the NBA should make it permanent

Anthony Davis is not just another LeBron James co-star

Hey, who left the lid of the San Antonio Spurs' Playoff Streak coffin open?

The Pelicans blew it

This NBA China problem is not complicated

The NBA bubble is totally unpredictable yet everyone's predicting the same result

Like clockwork, NBA billionaire owners start to pitch austerity

I can't believe the NBA left the 'strip club chicken wings' chapter out of the bubble manual

The Mavericks' weird bubble advantages

Why the Clippers are so fearsome

Glen Taylor selling the Wolves is a win for everyone

Will Giannis win both MVP and Defensive Player of the Year? He should, probably

The NBA MVP race is now technically over, too

Waiting for Zion again

Ben Simmons' new conundrum

What the Lakers have lost

The WNBA should protect - not fight - Elena Delle Donne

Wojbomb'd

The NBA's tone problem

Thursday links

Mundane Jazz drama is mundane until it isn't

The bubble will be especially surreal and inconsequential for the Magic

What the Pacers lose without Victor Oladipo

No one needs the NBA's losers' bubble

Maya Moore, a legend in the fullest sense

The Pelicans' real foes aren't the Grizzlies (yet)

'The Decision' is still perfect, 10 years later

The best game from every day of the NBA seeding phase

Friday links

What is success for the NBA bubble?

Dion Waiters and J.R. Smith: Why Not Try Both?

Davis Bertans is not feelin' bubbly

Cleveland's rebuild is going about as well as the last one (not good)

Finally, Troy Weaver gets a shot

The 2 teams radically affected by the shutdown

2 unanswered, vital questions about the NBA bubble

Adam Silver is confused and/or confusing

Players disagreeing about the restart is only natural

Friday links

Disenfranchisement has a centuries-long lead. LeBron's coming for the chasedown block

What playoff seeds are in play?

Jakob Poeltl dances into the spotlight

It's time for the NBA and its teams to start plotting concrete actions for change

Restrictions on older NBA coaches are not OK

The West playoff chase is rife with drama

Grant Napear had every chance to learn, and didn't

Gregg Popovich speaks. The Spurs organization does not.

How NBA and WNBA teams are reacting

Friday's GMIB newsletter

Tom Thibodeau and the Knicks: A match made in God Knows What

The Damian Lillard Conundrum

Universal seeding shouldn't be a one-off gimmick

Do not send the worst NBA teams into the bubble

The NBA should suspend the luxury tax next season

If you want to win the NBA championship, you're going to Disney World

The single undeniable lesson of the Donald Sterling saga

When the going gets weird, the Utah Jazz get weirder

Jerry Reinsdorf should never live this down

Kai Sotto raises the stakes

Moral authority and the NBA's resumption plans

Will the NBA players' union learn from its 2016 mistake?

And now ... your Chicago Bully

What's interesting about the Giannis and the Warriors

Stuck between a rock and an empty place

The biggest asterisk of all

When stars are born

The Michael Jordan that Michael Jordan was afraid you'd see

May is the month we maybe find out if perhaps basketball is possibly coming back this summer ... potentially

Send the NBA to the Magic Kingdom ... or Middle Earth?

The Sixers' big, awesome front office is dwindling

NBA announcement on practice facilities means HOPE

The Bulls' intensity limit

The 10 types of 'Nailed It!' contestants as explained by the 2018 Cleveland Cavaliers

Settling for six

Screeching from the basketball grave

How the NBA solved the Scottie Pippen problem

Jalen Green won't destroy the NCAA-to-NBA pipeline. That eruption was already coming

OPEN THREAD: "The Last Dance" Episodes 1 & 2

NBA H.O.R.S.E. was terribly unfair and actually pretty entertaining!

Mysticfying

MVP awards, ranked

Kevin Martin, Monta Ellis and the evolution of the NBA

Is Donovan Mitchell still mad?

Are NBA coaches' jobs safe during the shutdown?

Is the Bulls' self-sabotage era ending?

MLB has a loony restart plan. The NBA should just watch it unfold

3 ideas for non-competition NBA quarantine content

The awkward geopolitics of the world's first (and only?) Olympic basketball video game

Remembering the Blazers' decade-old almost dynasty

The players' union holds the NBA's next few years in its hands

Basketball distraction is coming

Introducing the NBA Wall of Fame

Thinking about J.J. Barea

Rockets owner's 'great opportunity' is pain for the working class

All's well that ends Joel

Mistrust the Process

What postponing the Tokyo Olympics means for the NBA

What hole does sports fill in our lives?

Adam Silver wants a diversion? 3-on-3 tournament!

Don't yell at the Nets for getting coronavirus tests

A proposed 30-team NBA playoffs

Why is the NBA trying to rescue this season?

The NBA's forever season

THREAD: How will you spend the NBA's Coronavirus Break?

Coronavirus made the NBA's decision for it

What should the NBA do about coronavirus?

Kenny Atkinson made a business decision

Bron Notice

Steph Curry picked up right where he left off (losing to the Raptors)

Steph Curry's return means everything and nothing

Caris LeVert's Super Tuesday

Sometimes, nothing makes sense

Harden and Giannis didn't order beef, yet beef is on the table

Chris Paul's legacy of team excellence

Why won't the Jazz bench Mike Conley?

Bucks are a clear favorite, but that's not enough

Just what the Sixers don't need

Time is all the Clippers don't have

The Nets are still waiting

What's still at stake in the NBA playoff races?

How bad NBA GMs like GarPax survive

Giannis Antetokounmpo is hangry

#Justice4AaronGordon

The Celtics are almost perfect

The 2020 WNBA season is going to be incredible

The All-NBA Escape Room Team

The metamorphosis of Russell Westbrook

Mutual liberation for Andrew Wiggins and the Timberwolves

The championship window is open, and no one is flying through it

Behold! the Memphis Grizzlies

The Nuggets have my full attention

How to Turn NBA All-Star Into a 3-on-3 Tournament

Damian Lillard won't stop

What does Devin Booker have to do?

The worst thing we could do to the Grizzlies

Honor Kobe by wearing his jersey number

The day after the day after

Kobe Bryant's story, tragically unfinished

A very important NBA All-Star starters mock draft

Zion's world

What Indiana won by trading Paul George

The Lakers can't take a punch

Most NBA trades are just fixing past mistakes

What are the Wolves trying to do?

How to talk about Giannis Antetokounmpo's future responsibly

On the precipice of a WNBA golden age

NBA expansion isn't great for fans. The league should still do it

Jazz on fire

All Thunder, no clouds

My official, unofficial NBA All-Star ballot

The Pistons have a future, and his name is Sekou Doumbouya

Protect Luka Doncic at all costs

What's (Kevin) Love got to do with it?

The real NBA All-Star crisis has nothing to do with Alex Caruso or Tacko Fall

Why David Stern is beloved

5 ways I hope the NBA changes in the 2020s