The Pacers are one of the biggest teams in the NBA, with a 7’2 Goliath standing in front of the rim next to another 6’9 bruiser and three of the longest and most athletic perimeter players in the NBA in front of them. They were built to beat the Heat, a team full of slashers, but they have no answer for an Atlanta offense that plays five out. Read more »
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Looking To The 2015 NBA Draft: Returning Point Guards
Delon Wright, Marcus Paige, Rysheed Jordan, Andrew Harrison and Ryan Boatright are returning to college, but are the most intriguing point guard prospects for the NBA. Read more »
Filling Out the 76ers’ Core With Their Two Lottery Picks
With two lottery picks in this June's draft, the 76ers will have to nail both selections to build around their core of Michael Carter-Williams and Nerlens Noel. Read more »
Identifying What Late 1st Round Big Men CAN Do
You can always find a good perimeter player in the D-League, but the best 6’10+ players in the world are pretty much spoken for. Mason Plumlee and Dieng had turned themselves into effective centers in college, but they slipped in the draft because of concerns about their age and ceiling. Read more »
Portsmouth Invitational - '62 Years Running - The Best of the PIT'
Five players in particular really impressed from an NBA prospect perspective: Markel Starks, Travis Bader, Akil Mitchell, Javon McCrea, and Andre Dawkins all really helped themselves. Read more »
MCW & Giannis: Why The Eye Test Still Matters
When you are evaluating young players, the statistics can only tell you so much. That's why there are still ways to find steals in the draft - look for the tallest, longest and most athletic guys at each position. It’s really that simple. Read more »
Draft Report: Dante Exum Of Australian Institute Of Sport
While Dante Exum isn’t quite as long and athletic as Andrew Wiggins, he’s far more skilled. He’s an elite athlete in his own right and plays with more poise. You have to play Trading Places with these guys - what would have happened if Exum was on the AAU circuit every summer and Wiggins was in the AIS? Read more »
NBA Players Who Could Still Be In College
It’s easy to forget how young some of the players in the league are - freshmen drafted in 2011 would have been college seniors this season. You have to judge young players against guys their age not against the guys in their draft class. Read more »
One And Done Model Works For Everyone
John Calipari is 18-3 in the NCAA Tournament at Kentucky. Even more remarkable, he compiled that number with four completely different teams, sending upwards of 15 players to the NBA. It’s a vindication not only of how he built his program, but of the entire “one and done” model. Read more »
How Kentucky Became Better Than The Sum Of Its Parts
In a tourney filled with unlikely stories, none is more unlikely than John Calipari’s Kentucky Wildcats becoming a Cinderella. Rather than 2-3 guys emerging as stars, everyone on has shared the burden, with each member of their rotation coming up big at a different time. Read more »
The Worst Game Of Aaron Gordon’s Life
Did the Elite Eight expose Aaron Gordon's game, or prove he is not a quitter? Read more »
The Utter Nightmare Of Minnesota's 2011 Draft
A bad draft can happen in a variety of ways: poor selections, bad trades, or taking options off the table for no reason. All three hit David Kahn and the Wolves at the same time. Read more »
Ranking The Best Five Draft Fits For The Lakers
The Lakers rarely have high picks and this draft will prove extremely important for Mitch Kupchak and Jim Buss to select a potential superstar as a successor to Kobe Bryant. Read more »
The Central Question For Fixing The NBA's Draft System
One of the biggest problems has been the flawed process that new players come into the NBA. Using a term more broad than “the lottery” proves necessary because proposals to fix the system can be much bigger than just tweaks to that part. Read more »
How NBA's Structure Impacts Tanking, Rebuilding
The frustrating great truth at the heart of building a team in today’s NBA is that teams without elite talent are best served by clearing the boards and being terrible until they have the talent to spend around. Read more »
Leroux's 2013 NBA Draft Review
Breaking down all 30 teams by category of how they fared in the often surprising, never disappointing 2013 NBA Draft. Read more »
False Positives In Scouting For The NBA Draft
For all they told us, Thomas Robinson's college stats might as well have been his high school ones. Even the most advanced statistics depend on the underlying data and the data coming out of college is fairly flawed. Read more »
Confidence As A Predictor Of NBA Success
In the world of NBA scouting, polish and accomplishment are often dwarfed by the simple question of who is the most aggressive. If you believe you are the best player on the floor, maybe someday you will be. Read more »
Public Service Announcement: First Round Picks On Non-NBA Contracts
The Mavericks can draft and stash a European prospect in order to have additional cap space this summer. Read more »
Europe Interview: Mindaugas Kupsas
RealGM interviewed Sabonis-alum Mindaugas Kupsas, the only potential NBA draftee from Lithuania this year, to talk about his development, the upcoming NBA draft, future plans and much more. Read more »
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