Dylan Harper's electric on-ball ability just might give him more upside than anybody outside of Cooper Flagg. He's a special offensive player, and he's wired the right way. Read more »

Zion Williamson is at once one of the most visibly under-seasoned souls in the league and one of its most beleaguered Read more »

If this season is to have any importance beyond the mere passage of time for the Wizards, it’ll be because of Alex Sarr. Read more »

Ace Bailey is a player that has all the offensive ability in the world. The shot creation is next-level, he can hit spot-up jumpers and he's going to be a terror in transition. He will be electric in the NBA with merely adequate surroundings. Read more »

There is a direct relationship between the decision to lean into the Heat Culture mythology, as a branding exercise, and the team's current relationship with Jimmy Butler. Read more »

Cooper Flagg is a dynamic two-way prospect that has one minor flaw. And Duke's roster construction isn't doing him any favors in hiding it. Read more »

The NBA viewership numbers we don't get to see are saying something appealing to the people who write the world's biggest checks. Most of what's said contrary to that is part of someone's resentment factory. Read more »

What a thrill to see a competitive ecology for a handful of do-or-die games in December, and for Giannis to stomp through them like all the mess between his championship and right now was just stuff he could stride right over. Read more »

The Wolves made a major trade right before camp and then started the season slow, but the new pieces have now been incorporated and they again look like the team that made the Western Conference Finals. Read more »

When you play fantasy basketball, you start to look at NBA statistics differently, and seemingly inert numbers start to take on much louder character. Read more »

On why Nolan Traore, Hugo Gonzalez, Ben Saraf, Michael Ruzic and Noa Essengue will be among the top picks in the 2025 NBA draft. Read more »

Having the best player in the world no longer guarantees anything. The new salary cap structure made stars, the guys who sell tickets and jerseys, matter a bit less, and depth matter a lot more. Read more »

There's nothing especially striking about Scotty Pippen Jr.'s game, unless you're a big fan of professionalism. He simply doesn't ever do much that's wrong and it is why he has quickly become one of the NBA's best reserve guards. Read more »

Jared McCain is the clear front-runner for Rookie of the Year and maybe the only silver lining in a season that has gone sideways. The potential of a McCain-Tyrese Maxey backcourt has already begun to redefine a franchise otherwise mired in uncertainty. Read more »

A lifetime of training and high expectations has given R.J. Barrett all the tools to be a very good player, but has also blinded him as to how they should be deployed. Read more »

If you squint extremely hard, to the point that your eyes look closed, the Wizards quietly have a Thunder-like thing going on. Washington has a young core of big, versatile players that could become a factor in time if everything breaks right. Read more »

To start this season, Cam Thomas is living his best life, as if his parents are out of town and ice cream is for dinner. Read more »

The two conference have been lopsided for decades, owing to a lot of different factors; an uneven distribution of ambitious ownership, luck, and good weather are usually mentioned, but even that mix of explanations doesn't quite tell the story, which has gotten too large to ignore. Read more »

The Pistons are an ontological chicken-or-the-egg thought experiment into whether the player makes the team or the team makes the player. With Cade Cunningham in tow, Detroit has their most exciting young player in a generation, even if he's not the one-man cure-all that they hoped for. Read more »

Eventually, there's hope that Ball can become some sort of evolutionary Steve Nash, an all-world bandleader who can coax melody from a roaring wall of sound, but Charlotte has currently boxed him in as a soloist. Read more »