Kawhi Leonard is a secondary ball handler with fantastic decision-making who can efficiently post up, isolate, get out in transition, run off screens and hit jumpers all over the court. All that and a transcendent defensive impact would allow him to thrive on any team. Read more »

Something happens to teams that inhabit a narrow strata of very goodness for too long. For the Clippers, it's being reminded each postseason that they are upper-middle class, not rich. Read more »

What else were the Knicks going to do? Don't answer that with the part of your brain that understands roster construction and cap strategy; use the part that knows what the Knicks are and what they seem bound by some cosmic law to always be. Read more »

Justise Winslow and Josh Richardson aren't a be-all, end-all unstoppable duo, but they do offer promising multi-positional talent that will certainly become enhanced with a short-term infusion of youth. Read more »

We often debate about how much the NBA's greatest coaches owe their success to the superstars they've tied themselves to. We'll never know how to precisely dole out credit. But Steve Clifford is quietly approaching a value that suggests he's simply waiting for his superstar. Read more »

As the Wolves, Jazz and Nuggets look to end their playoff droughts with young rosters, the Blazers and Thunder focused on remaining playoff contenders amid major potential change. Read more »

If Marcus Smart can improve his shooting to league average, with all of his other qualities taken into account, he could evolve into just the All-Star Boston is looking for and not just a one-way defensive stopper. Read more »

From Vegan Fish Tacos to RealGM to the Sporting News and the Dunc'd On Podcast, Danny Leroux outlines his career in sports and offers his core values on how to approach the business. Read more »

The Nets should trade Brook Lopez. They're awful and need to collect as many long-term assets as they can. The assumption that they can get any by selling Lopez to the highest bidder may be false. He's a pretty good player, but right now an obvious trade partner doesn't exist. Read more »

On the Raptors and Celtics trying to take the next step as playoff contenders, the Knicks working on building around Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis, while the 76ers and Nets look long-term. Read more »

On a team loaded with veterans, Kristaps Porzingis is by far the biggest X-factor when attempting to project the success of the new-look Knicks. What can Porzingis improve upon in order to begin grasping his potential as a game-changing two way player? Read more »

During the last five years, Yi Jianlian has proven that while the hype may have been overblown, he is a good basketball player who is worthy of another shot in the NBA. Read more »

Ben Simmons may be shooting with the wrong hand, but even if he's not, he can develop his shot similarly to Blake Griffin to operate effectively around the elbows. Read more »

With a lot of teams using cap space in 2016 and a lower than anticipated 2017 cap, the number of teams with space will be less than expected. But 10-12 teams will still have cap space and several more could join them. Read more »

If Sean Marks has been making the right moves in rebuilding the Nets, here are his techniques for the next generation of rebuilding teams to learn from. Read more »

With the Olympics beginning, we break down the players on each national team with some sort of NBA Connection. Read more »

While Russell Westbrook may be stubbornly extending his time with the Thunder, the short-term prudence of the Thunder may set them back by not timing the start of their rebuild with the 2017 draft. Read more »

While a superstar changing teams is always the more nuclear, news-exploding story, Russell Westbrook holding pattern in Oklahoma is just as dynamic a statement as Durant starting anew with the Warriors. Read more »

Russell Westbrook's skillset is not totally void of system building. He might seem like the Tasmanian Devil, but he has definable talents that an entire offense can function around. Westbrook could become even more effective without Kevin Durant. Read more »

As Paul George inches closer to the end of his contract, the likelihood of a new longer-term (and much more expensive) deal becomes more likely. Read more »