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The Game Is Round: Kevin Garnett’s Career Reaches a Rare Full Circle Back in...
What would the perfect pro sports career life cycle look like? It should begin auspiciously, with a high draft pick. That promise should then be followed up by a performance to match, with passion and...
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2015 NBA Trade Value, Part 2: The Temple of Doom
Remember when I promised that Part 2 of the Trade Value column would arrive the week after the Super Bowl? That was a typo — I meant the Oscars. Sorry about that. The good news: At least the readers...
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‘NBA After Dark’ Podcast: With Royce Young, Plus Tom Krell of How to Dress Well
Chris, Juliet, and Andrew talk about the drama in Dallas and KG’s return to the Wolves. Plus, Royce Young calls in to talk OKC and How to Dress Well comes by to talk Nuggets. Listen to the podcast...
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2015 NBA Trade Value, Part 3: The Final Countdown
Editor’s note: If you missed our special Trade Value page, which has every column since 2001, click here. Before covering our final nine for this year’s top-60 list, let’s quickly recap the list from...
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The Cavalier in the Coal Mine: On Kevin Love and the Decline of the Power...
Last week on Bill Don’t Lie, Tom Haberstroh and Bill Simmons spoke about the rapid increase of 3-point shooting in the NBA. These days, it’s a common conversation topic around the league, and it should...
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Andrew Wiggins and Rudy Gobert Staged a French-Canadian War Last Night
Just look at this. Look at what Andrew Wiggins did to Rudy Gobert last night. But wait — that was the warning shot. That was nothing. Look at what Andrew Wiggins did to Rudy Gobert last night. Stuff...
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The NBA’s Furious 17: Capturing the Noncontenders’ State of Mind
The NBA’s final regular-season week usually revolves around playoff seed positioning, MVP conversations, awards ballots, this Spurs picture, some unapologetic mega-tanking by the worst seven to eight...
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NBA Awards Ballot, Part 1: In Praise of the Individual
In a normal season, there are usually one or two awards on the NBA’s ballot that are easy — a runaway rookie of the year (Blake Griffin), a borderline unanimous MVP, a bench guy who lapped the...
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Lightning Round: The 2015 NBA Draft Lottery
So, how about that NBA draft lottery last night, eh? As usual, the night was mostly chalk, until it wasn’t — suddenly the Lakers and Knicks, two teams that happen to represent the two biggest markets...
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Behind the Scenes of the NBA Draft Lottery
A few thoughts on the playoff interruption that is the annual NBA draft lottery … • The best thing about the lottery is watching some of the world’s most sophisticated basketball thinkers sweat over...
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What’s Next for Kevin Love?
Last July at summer league in Las Vegas, David Griffin, the Cavaliers GM who had just landed the biggest signing of his life, noticed Flip Saunders, president and coach for the Timberwolves, as the two...
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The Eight Biggest NBA Free-Agency Questions
When free agency opens at the stroke of midnight, the NBA will leap into its great unknown: an unprecedented three-year spending frenzy that will change the league forever and stand out in history as...
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Where Should the Nuggets Send Ty Lawson?
NBA free agency began at midnight, and there are all kinds of big questions that will be answered over the next few weeks. But beyond the speculation and midnight meetings and cap maneuvering, there’s...
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The Overwhelming Sound and Fury of Day 1 of NBA Free Agency
Well, holy freaking crap. The NBA has never, ever seen a day like July 1, 2015. LeBron James drew in more intense tractor beams of interest with his two prolonged free-agency stripteases, but there has...
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NBA Free-Agency Winners and Losers
Now that Marc Gasol and Robert Pera have come down from their tapas-and-wine bender across Barcelona, the last big-name free agent outside the LeBron Show is off the board. The first free-agency period...
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Karl-Anthony Towns: The Underrated No. 1 Draft Pick
When he was in high school, he played in the shadow of Jahlil Okafor. In college, he was just one part of a Kentucky machine that was trying to go undefeated as coach John Calipari rotated players in...
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Q&A: Flip Saunders on Building the Baby T-Wolves, Luck, and Mountain Dew
Flip Saunders has experienced an improbable rise from the ragtag Continental Basketball Association of the 1980s and 1990s, to a position of enormous power as head coach, president of basketball...
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Labor Peace in Our Time: How the NBA’s Money Train Could Keep Chugging
You guys saw this, right — this beam of light powerful enough to liquefy Lockout Pizza and erase memories of late-night stakeouts, decertification, Billy Hunter, buried bodies, hard caps, hard-liners,...
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The Definitive NBA Logo Rankings
It’s that time of the summer again. After going way too deep ranking names and court designs, we’re back to hit perhaps the most important piece of art associated with a team: its primary logo, which...
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From BMI to TMI: The NBA Is Leaning Toward Wearable Tech
The NBA is putting its own money into the study of wearable GPS devices, with the likely end goal of outfitting players during games, according to several league sources. The league is funding a study,...
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