Keith Smith emptied his notebook after speaking to players, coaches, front office personnel and agents with all 15 Eastern Conference teams. Read more »
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2018 Eastern Conference Summer League Notes
La Decision: A Marketing Strategy Made Out Of Flesh
The reason people hated The Decision and why they're immensely annoyed with Antoine Griezmann's version is that it takes attention-as-currency to its logical, nauseating conclusion. Read more »
LeBron James' Path To Podium Greatness
You could make the case LeBron James' all-around game has never been better. But his off-court game has reached the same rarefied air. And that might even be more impressive considering where he started off eight years ago. Read more »
LeBron James Closes Chapter 3 As We Wait For Chapter 4
When LeBron James finally retires, his career will look less complicated than most of us anticipated in the moment, while we were deconstructing his every move. That career will consist of four separate chapters. We just concluded the third chapter. Read more »
Projected 2018 Cap Space For All 30 NBA Teams, Version 2.0
The Lakers, Pacers, Hawks and 76ers enter the offseason with the most project cap space. Read more »
LeBron Continues To Delay A New Dawn In The East
The Celtics and 76ers represent the future of the East, but LeBorn James is its past, present and very possibly its future as well. Read more »
Blowout Fatigue In The Conference Finals
These Conference Finals have been, while not wholly uncompetitive in a macro sense, dull on a game-by-game basis. It would be nice if they stopped, one at a time, trading impressive efforts, and played well simultaneously. Read more »
How The Feeling Out Process Has Worked For LeBron James
As we have come to expect, LeBron James was better in Game 2 than in Game 1 but it still wasn't enough to level the series. Read more »
Present Versus Future In The Eastern Conference
While the Raptors are trying to finally get past LeBron, the other side of the East features a pair of teams expected to dominate it for the next decade. Read more »
A Playoff Evening With LeBron & Russ On The Brink
This is the time of year when LeBron and Russ are at their most put-upon, and beneath that strain, they retreat into their minds and emerge with an old friend. They find themselves. Read more »
Lance, LeBron & The NBA's Most Lopsided Rivalry
To Lance Stephenson, LeBron James is one thing: a rival. It might be the NBA's most entertaining rivalry. Read more »
Finding The Perfect Role Guys For The Playoffs
On how the integration of Luc Mbah a Moute, Quinn Cook, Greg Monroe, Jeff Green and Jonas Jerebko will be key for their team's playoff chances. Read more »
Ten-Year Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
We look at the trajectory of every team in the NBA in terms of how they rank in the category. Read more »
LeBron's Uniquely Impressive Season
LeBron isn't going to add a ring this year. What he's doing instead is delineating, in subtle ways, using the ample blank space the Cavs' roster affords him, what he can do that nobody else can. Read more »
Projected 2018 Cap Space For All 30 NBA Teams
Approximately 80 percent of the league will be over the cap. The cap spike that caused multiple teams to have copious amounts of cap space each summer from 2015 through 2017 has now flattened out Read more »
DeRozan, Love & My Experience With Mental Health Through The NBA
The courage it took DeMar DeRozan and Kevin Love to speak their truths is far greater than anything they'll achieve on a basketball court. Read more »
Kawhi And Pop, Kyrie And LeBron, And The Challenging Of NBA Patriarchs
Two young men talented enough, and bold enough in their vision, have exercise their indifference to the traditions that each of these legends have wrought. Read more »
The Difficulty Of Being In The LeBron James Business
LeBron James realized that he is the most powerful person in the NBA, and while he can't control everything that's said about him, he can control how he's treated by everyone he works with. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Cavs Add Rodney Hood, George Hill
The Cavaliers were able to add a pair of quality pieces in George Hill and Rodney Hood. Read more »
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