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The O.G. domino has fallen

Are the Pistons are the best 2-29 team of all-time?

What the NFL crushing the NBA on T.V. means for basketball fans ... eventually

It's darkest before the dawn (the dawn is 2 months late)

The Suns are careening toward disaster

The Pistons have an entire English alphabet's worth of consecutive Ls

The Pistons found something funnier than 24

Joel Embiid and ethical scoring

Ja did

Ja Morant's suspension is over. The Grizzlies' season is not.

The Cavaliers' bad news could become an instruction manual

Thus ends a completely normal week in the NBA

A new NBA conspiracy is born: Welcome to Gameballghazi

Eject button stuck

Zion Williamson and the Pelicans are just normal men

Where did the Pistons go wrong?

What the NBA Cup showed us

Tyrese Haliburton knows the time

The lie of Adam Silver's Alley-Oop Diplomacy

The 4 teams you meet in Vegas

All 16 possible NBA Cup championship games, ranked

An Alex Caruso flaps his wings ...

Finally, maybe, it's the Pelicans' time

Not all are built for The Cup

This might be the most Clipper loss of all-time

The Bulls' nightmare is just beginning

A player spit out turkey and it wasn't the weirdest thing to happen on an NBA court on Wednesday

You don't get the Cup

"Things are heating up in the NBA Cup!" is a sentence you will probably hear on TV tonight

And the Thunder shall inherit the Earth

Golden State Worriers, am I right?

Choked out

Putting Rudy Gobert in a headlock is self-sabotage, not self-care

Sixers in ascent

Clippers in crisis

An all-too-brief Friday newsletter

Untitled (How does it Phil?)

Bask in the Timberwolves' rare light

NBA stars aren't resting early this season. Why?

As consequential and pernicious of an NBA weekend as you will ever find in November

We're in our Wembanyama era

The Memphis Grisly

The Spurs *literally* snatched victory from the jaws of defeat

Now was that so Hard(en) after all?

Stephen Curry insists you respect your bedtime

Don't forget to set your clocks back for Dame Time

What time is it? Players' only meeting time HOO

Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets are unbothered

Milwaukee shocker

11 fearless predictions for the 2023-24 NBA season

What is the standard for NBA disappointment?

Work beef in the NBA dark ages

We need more Mitchell Robinsons

Cade Cunningham and the quest to make theory reality

Tyler Herro isn't the problem

Introducing the 2023-24 League Pass Cup

Important non-stars in the NBA's best division

Welcome back, Zion

Victor and Chet, take the wheel

Most important non-stars: Part 1, Northwest territory

Great lengths and short patience

On the asymmetry of player movement in the NBA

Hope dangles on a string

It's not a fashion statement, it's a deathwish

This ain't a scene

3 questions about the Damian Lillard trade

It doesn't matter if Chris Paul is named a starter

Raptors, working the rapture

Integrating Damian Lillard

Who the Chicago Bulls truly are

There should be 2 NBA seasons every year

Hey Rockets! Just waive his ass

The NBA and Disney are going to solve their money crunch with your money

World champions of what?

Luka's trap

How do you get people to watch NBA basketball? Put the Lakers or Warriors on

All of Team USA's problems have been proven real

Team USA is the least interesting thing about the next stage of the World Cup

Giannis Antetokounmpo's forever threat

Everything's always changing in international basketball

Put some respect on Tim Duncan's name

3 reasons Team USA should win the FIBA World Cup

Top 23 players not on Team USA in the 2023 FIBA World Cup

Canada Basketball should be a powerhouse. Alas ...

I Remain Hyped For The Silly In-Season Tournament

We have reached new, unimaginable levels of James Harden

Breaking: The New York Knicks are a well-run basketball organization

Team USA will never be a clear favorite again

Looking ahead to the Lakers after LeBron

Where the Brooklyn Nets have been, and where they could go

The stakes of the Jaylen Brown supermax

Everyone wants a piece of the NBA, and the NBA wants a piece of everything

The lesson, as always: don't tweet

Joel Embiid and the echoes of that damned Hawks series

The Suns choose money over having a single point guard in the rotation

Someone *has* to be at the bottom of the NBA next season. But who?

An affirmative (but not positive) case for Dillon Brooks in Houston

3 questions about the new NBA Cup

The Blazers and Damian Lillard are acting in self-interest? What a scandal

The Mavericks' lovely picnic around a timebomb centerpiece

Truths about the Blazers' power to decide Damian Lillard's next home

Chet Holmgren is back in our lives

Dame over

A stable, mostly surprise-free start to NBA free agency

Hard out

The Bulls are at a buffet where nothing looks good

NBA trades are not competitions

The unthinkable has happened: John Collins has finally been traded

The $256 million question in Minnesota

No Poole Parties in the new NBA labor deal

Is that all Marcus Smart meant to the Celtics?

Draft players, not archetypes

Draymond Green vs. an unstable market

An un-Beal-lievable end

Let's make a Beal

What the Spurs do now

Every champion is a snowflake

Down in the mud, a mile high

The remarkable pivot of the Miami Heat

Welcome to the Nuggets' golden age, unless ...

Jamal Murray is the perfect second star for Nikola Jokic

Why not Scoot?

Basketball is not a probability machine

Did the Heat just get lucky (again)? An investigation

The impossible standard of Jokic

How I'm thinking about Nuggets vs. Heat

Bob Myers' immense pressure and a Warriors crossroads

The immaculate Heat

From a 3-0 series to 3.0 seconds

Don't count your [Celtics] before they [collapse]

The Wizards try something new

Sure, an 0-3 comeback in the NBA is inevitable. So is the heat death of the universe

The Nuggets' proof of concept for patience in the NBA

But they lost to the Hawks in the play-in!

The validation of Jamal Murray

Jimmy Culture redux

Welcome back, Spurs

So you won the rights to Victor Wembanyama. Now what?

The NBA coaching carousel reaches terminal speed

Naptime for the Warriors

Rocky Mountain high

We should have 9 All-NBA teams, not 3

The Sixers' playoff ghosts get their plane tickets for Cancun

IV in the 4th

Devin Booker can't miss

Bud out

A Thursday grab bag

How many bears did you poke, dude?

James Harden put on his big boy pants

Who ordered the GOAT Curry?

You wanted the Kings? You got the Kings

The Hawks are still trying to inbound from the corner

Bucked around, found out

The Clippers' superteam goes missing again

Revenge of the bubble stars

Why don't they make the entire playoffs out of Kings vs. Warriors?

We need to shut down the 76ers until we figure out what's going on

Is this a summer of change for the Wizards?

Here comes the heart stepper

Kings put their foot down

There is only one Russell Westbrook

California beamin'

Where the tension lies in the NBA playoffs

A play-in adjustment idea that leads to a playoff adjustment idea

Another gut punch for the Timberwolves

The problem with the 65-game award threshold

The Timberwolves sure know how to punch their ticket to the postseason

Will the Clippers call in shenanigans? Will the Warriors play along? THIS IS APRIL

Goodbye, Mavericks. That was weird

Playing out the string

Yes, low-seed West teams should aim for No. 6

This is the day Joel Embiid finally became president

Comfort in uncomfortable times: On the new NBA labor agreement

'Straight to DVD: The 2022-23 Dallas Mavericks Story'

Here's the situation in the Western Conference

It's not *just* the drought

Draymond is still Draymond and Steph is still STEPH

Meet the East 10

Is it time to bury the Mavericks?

Friday highlights and notes

The Mavericks doth protest too much

A very bad night for the Clippers

Wasting Dame('s) Time

This weekend in the NBA

Basketball Is Happening

How many Steph Curry points does it take to get the Warriors a road win? We may never know

Are the Nuggets okay?

Looking ahead to the NBA coaching carousel

A very interesting weekend in the NBA MVP race

How to write about sports on Substack

A dream scenario West playoff bracket

Thursday notes and highlights

The Kings are levitating

The NBA play-in is working shockingly well

You've gotta be Knicking me

The Russell Westbrook Experience rip cord

To a more joyful MVP debate

Wednesday scores & links

A suddenly familiar oof for the Lakers

176 reasons to believe in the Beam

The Sixers didn't melt

The benefits of NBA parity are now

The Trae Young Hawks: one good stretch in an era of mediocrity

Re-tiering the NBA

The Dunk Contest never dies

Your Honest NBA All-Star Weekend Viewing Guide

New York basketball is fun again

Really, the Celtics and Bucks both won

The most encouraging Timberwolves possession of the year

The Warriors almost un-did the James Wiseman trade

Which NBA deadline deals actually matter?

Good morning! Yep, the Suns traded a bunch for Kevin Durant

38,388 and counting

The Mavericks are going to be a problem and have problems

... but it might work for the Mavericks

NBA All-Star reserve selection remains weird as hell

Meet the NEW New York Liberty

OK fine, let's talk about the Wizards

Pelican'ts

The Jaren Jackson Jr. fake conspiracy, explained

The All-Star voting disconnects: Embiid's lament, Situation Kyrie and the Brow is beaten

A shot so dumb your teammate gets ejected over it

LeBron is beating Father Time. Unfortunately, wins over Father Time don't count in the standings

Picking 2022-23 NBA Western Conference All-Stars

3 thoughts on the Grizzlies vs. Shannon Sharpe

Picking 2022-23 Eastern Conference NBA All-Stars

The Kings are No. 3 in the West. Yes, those Kings

Resurrecting the Clippers' past

On the vexing timing of the Rudy Gobert trade

The West playoff picture is breathtakingly tight

Friday scores & notes

Kuzma's revenge

Putting the 'Trail' back in 'Trailblazers'

Nikola Jokic is (almost) perfect

I regret to inform you that the Lakers are back from the dead

Fantasy vs. reality in All-Star starter voting

Ja Morant walking the dog doesn't require a rule change

Checking in on preseason predictions

The awe of Donovan Mitchell's 71

Luka's on an all-time heater, LeBron punches Father Time in the mouth, Jokic is better than ever and more

2022-23 NBA Dunk of the Year