Sitemap - 2022 - Good Morning It's Basketball

Seeds may not matter in the West. Home court will

Luka, heir of Harden and maybe the sport

What's right with the Nets

3 years of GMIB on Substack

2022 NBA Christmas Day games, ranked

In which the Raptors and Bulls might have saved their seasons

A new billionaire for the Suns

Every game matters, but do you care?

Magic hours

Warriors, adrift some more

Warriors, still lost at sea

The NBA's new 'Clutch Player of the Year' award is a little genius and a lot madness

The Wizards, frozen in place

Zion and Alvarado, breaking orthodoxy and their opponents' spirit

Jamal Murray hit the snooze button on Dame Time

Things that are wrong with the Miami Heat

Wednesday scores & links

5 teams enter Wemby's basement, only 3 can stay

The not-so-sleeping giant in New Orleans

Mavericks go under

No smoke and mirrors on the Suns

Will the Mavericks waste Luka's excellence being stubborn?

There are no real NBA rivalries

Atlanta Hawks, meet my friend Comeuppance

Thanksgiving highlights & notes

On the Jazz and accepting the joy available right now

Tuesday scores & links, where Donovan Mitchell feels bad

Is Giannis a villain now?

Friday scores & links

No, OKC's tank job did not stifle Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's development

A buck 53

On James Wiseman's new timeline

A historic explosion of individual high scorers in the NBA

Blazing

The Nets briefly step off of the rake

A brief Wednesday newsletter

šŸŽµ Tale as old as time, officials' favorite crime: missed calls screwing the Kings šŸŽµ

At least the basketball is good

It turns out the Spurs have not set a new ethical standard

You can't do that, Tyler Herro!

Bored with mere basketball, the Nets are now building a superteam of toxicity

The Spurs (appear to) set the standard

Donovan Mitchell is dunking the Cavaliers to the top

It's Luka, it's Steph, it's Ben Anti-tokounmpo, it's the NBA!

L-L-L-Lakers

Let NBA players taunt each other

Putting doubts to rest in Portland

We're in deep Sixer

How fast can Rob Pelinka get another extension?

I definitely remembered he was on the Phoenix Suns

Surprise! The Celtics and Warriors are still awesome

Predicting the Eastern Conference

Predicting the NBA Western Conference

Anatomy of a Ja Dropper

The Hornets are in a terrible spot at the perfect time

Draymond Green's extraordinarily brief exile

After Redemption

This weekend in the NBA: Draymond, Obi and Pelinka

MORE WEMBANYAMA

This Is How Much Iā€™m Worried About The Reported Physical Altercation Between Draymond Green and Jordan Poole

Wembanyama, Scoot and an NBA tank culture renaissance

Sometimes the obvious answer is the right one

Back-to-back-to-back-to-back, James Wiseman, The Other Sixers and more

The NBA (preseason) is back (but it's preseason)

Top 33 NBA Players 33 or Older

Deandre Ayton and the Suns may not actually be 'alright'

The new horses in Nikola Jokic's stable

Pistons on the hunt

How big are these Celtics crises?

This is why we can't have nice things

Top 23 NBA Players 23 or Under

A case for the Grizzlies

The Sun is hot but Riquna Williams was hotter

Sun goes up, Suns go down

Adam Silver slips up and tells the truth

Robert Sarver has no business in the NBA or WNBA. Not in a year, not ever

Solving the NBA's stakes problem

A near-shock in the Finals, a real shock at EuroBasket

It fell from the Sky

M'VP, Luka and Gobert get nasty & more

Another 1 for the 76ers

The sliding doors of the Cavaliers and Grizzlies

Aces high

Trading all your picks is all the rage. How's it working out?

The current state of FIBA World Cup qualification

The problem with WNBA award voting (and the discourse about it)

What RJ Barrett needs next

FIBA is still not on the radar

Patrick Beverley and Russell Westbrook, together at last. What could go wrong?

Who won the Kevin Durant trade saga?

Who's really bluffing?

A handful of debut NBA All-Star candidates

Friday scores & links

LeBron commits another year of his life to a failing small business. Sad

Come on and slam (that vote into the ballot box)

What's the point of the NBA on Christmas?

Here come the WNBA playoffs

No. 6 forever

The WNBA playoff race is pure, unadulterated chaos

Wednesday scores & links

Apocalypse Nets: Brotherhood, bosses and calling Kevin Durant's bluff

Is Dejounte Murray an NBA villain now?

Spread your Wings

Thursday scores + links

Where's the NBA's $115 million player?

An early look at the Victor Wembanyama Sweepstakes

Bill Russell, 1934-2022

Is the NBA's designated rookie rule working as designed?

Are the Philadelphia 76ers a title contender?

In celebration of P.J. Tucker's amazing NBA career

The Kings have returned

James Harden's babyface turn

Restricted free agency is gross and should be abolished

The New York Knicks are (about to be) BACK (maybe)

Gone-ovan Mitchell?

Good riddance, Take Foul

Telling superstars no

Friday highlights and notes

Bradley Beal, for better or worse

Hedging with the Blazers

The rookie extension is undefeated

Rudy Gone-bert

Apocalypse Nets

3 cheers for the Hawks' impatience

Money printer go BRRRRunson

The NBA's next big question: All-Star 2023

Who are the 2023 NBA contenders right now?

3 takeaways from the 2022 NBA Draft, starring the Knicks' fantastic picks voyage

Dame Time waits for no one

3 cardinal rules about the NBA Draft

How KD figures in the Kyrie calculus

Hor-nyets

Warriors 4ever

The Mavericks are beefing up

Direct deposit doesn't win championships

The healing power of Klay Thompson

The hauntings of the NBA Finals

Are you distracted?

Another night, another team

Quin Snyder stops the music

What's new?

Good news, bad news

The feel-good NBA era

5 big questions heading into the NBA Finals

Here's to a competitive NBA Finals

The long miss goodnight

Steph's greatest ability

When is it enough?

The narrative arc of the Warriors dynasty

The Warriors have some new tricks

Turn the Heat around

The way of the Warriors

Jimmy Culture

The ping pong balls don't matter until they do

Death Valley Boyz

Friday night fireworks

It's a lot to Process

Welp that trick

The NBA needs an All-Postseason Team

Did the Grizzlies blow it? An investigation

The NBA second round rises from the dead

WNBA tip-off, Dillon Brooks suspension & more

Point Gods and monsters

The Ja Morant era

Tuesday scores & links

On Mark Jackson, potential NBA head coach once again

A perfect game for Chris Paul and a perfect finish for the Jazz's playoff appearance

What Ben Simmons has sown

šŸŽµ Up the chimney and through the smoke, on the Timberwolves' heads Ja dunks šŸŽµ

Who's in charge of the Brooklyn Nets?

The NBA playoffs are out of control

#TakeNope

Earthquakes in the East

Let's talk about the Pelicans

Are the Warriors back?

Ranking the Wows of the Weekend

You don't want it with Trae Young

The 12 most interesting players in the first round of the 2022 NBA playoffs

The gap between disaster and championship ain't always big

You can dance if you want to

Scapegoats and G.O.A.T.s in Lakerland

5 thrilling first round NBA playoff series, ranked

NBA regular season finale open thread

Nikola Jokic's arbitrary but amazing achievement

Is load management still a problem?

Breaking down the NBA seeding races

Links and whatnot

Holy s--t the Lakers are really going to miss the play-in

Started at the bottom

Dunk you very much

What are you tanking for?

The simplest All-NBA solution is the best: drop the positionality

Can anyone in the East actually stop the Celtics?

Back talk: Biggest NBA disappointment?

A silver lining for every NBA team

Trae Young gives Knicks fans a consolation prize

Dunks will tear us apart

The NBA playoff races that matter

Would you draft Chet Holmgren?

Thursday highlights and links

The NBA championship is wide open and that's glorious

Where the Timberwolves can go

Your Monday NBA update

Friday highlights & links

Am-Ben-Valance

Let top NBA seeds pick their playoff opponents

What Russell Westbrook wants: praise in triumph, silence in defeat

Thinking of Brittney Griner

Looking ahead at the next NBA coaching carousel

Let the Basketball Gods grant us a long, tight Bucks-Heat playoff series

How to unleash the WNBA: kill the salary cap and decentralize the structure

The Bulls' big problem

Weekend scores & links

The race for the East No. 6 seed is much bigger than that

Thursday links

The mutual failings of Zion Williamson and the Pelicans

LeBron's newest dramas are tired and self-inflicted. Yawn

šŸŽµ We don't talk about [the 2022 Slam Dunk Contest] šŸŽµ

Jayson Tatum has a point

The miracle of DeMar DeRozan

Boston has the recipe

Breaking down the kinda sad, kinda wonderful race for the West No. 10 seed

Weekend scores and links

Haiku for every NBA deadline trade

Just looking for the right partner

Dame Lillard and the echo of LaMarcus Aldridge

How to think about James Harden and Philadelphia

Blazers hit the reset button

The NBA All-Star teams are fine

Josh Giddey is a genius

Bradley Beal in D.C.? I've seen enough

Tuesday scores & more

Recalibrating the NBA MVP contender tiers

5 more funny, mean & interesting NBA All-Star starter voting results

Thursday scores and links

You never want to go full Wizards

Can you *really* build around De'Aaron Fox and Tyrese Haliburton?

Weekend scores, highlights and links

The Lakers get defensive (just not on the basketball court)

All hail the Queen of Basketball

The East crown is within reach

Scores and highlights from the weekend

3 questions about the Cam Reddish trade

The many faces of the NBA Coach of the Year

Wednesday's scores and links

The Hawks are in trouble

Klay's back and Ja can fly

Why Andrew Wiggins is beating Draymond Green in All-Star fan voting

The biggest Dirk Nowitzki what-if

Put the Grizzlies and Cavaliers in the Finals

Tobias Harris and the horrible power of missed expectations

This year's big NBA All-Star ballot problem