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Denver Nuggets Analysis
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Playmaking Centers Are The NBA's Next Wave
The Nuggets, Heat and Kings were three of the most surprising teams of the 22-23 season with each of them built around playmaking centers that accentuated the strengths of their perimeter scorers and presented riddles that opposing defenses mostly failed to solve. Read more »
Jeff Green Might Just Play In The NBA Forever
Jeff Green has made the transformations to survive, and to turn what is often career limbo into career equilibrium instead. After playing a key role for the Nuggets, he now has a ring. Read more »
Nikola Jokic, The Least American MVP
The contrast of Nikola Jokic's monastic approach in an over-sauced landscape of media narratives, financial incentives, and performed virtue reached hilarious new heights with Denver winning the NBA championship. Read more »
For The Nuggets, Attention Isn't the Prize
Your life is certainly better if you don't make yourself think like a media executive, but the exercise may be useful to those acting confused about why a business-first basketball team with minimal mainstream history and no loud characters has been under-publicized. Read more »
The Lakers And Nuggets, After Purgatory
Since their meeting in the 2020 bubble, the Lakers and Nuggets had two seasons lost due to key injuries. Denver is now a little older and at their competitive zenith while LeBron and A.D. may not have this good of a chance together again. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
The Celtics finished first in Net Rating ahead of the Cavaliers, who jumped up from 13th last season and 28th as recently as 2021. Read more »
The NBA MVP And The Eternal Rearranging Of Lists
With intelligence and perspective, we've dulled our pleasure centers and curbed our ability to produce meaning for ourselves. Read more »
The 2023 Title Contenders Are Already Here
To believe that any of 2023's neo-contenders can become bonafide champs over the next few months is to believe that a once-in-a-quarter-century occurrence is about to transpire. The reality is there are only four real contenders. Read more »
The Nuggets Verging On True Heavyweight Status
Denver's loss in Philadelphia was meaningful not because of how it impacts a tired MVP conversation, but how it showed a crack in the overall project for the Nuggets ahead of the trade deadline. Read more »
Aaron Gordon, Nikola Jokic, And The Contender Nuggets
After two years of Jokic carrying a largely sundry crew through the woods, the Nuggets have finally formed back into a true showcase squad, worthy of many more grand stages. They are a basketball team worth falling in love with. Read more »
The Return Of The West's Sleeping Giants
Forever linked by their bubble series in 2020, the Nuggets and Clippers endured major injuries in 2021, and are now poised to return to contention status in 2023. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
The Suns jumped from 30th in the NBA in Net Rating in 17-18 to 29th to 18th in 19-20 to third last season and first in 21-22. Read more »
Nikola Jokic Erodes The Structure Within Which He Exists
Nikola Jokic's contributions in service of Winning are lovely, dark, and deep. But on a very rare occasion, he seems to peek behind the veil of the sport and intentionally subvert competition itself. Read more »
Maybe Next Year Nikola Jokic Will Have Something More Than An MVP
Nikola Jokic is confounding, and six years into making work what seems like it shouldn't, his coronation is us coming into a still somewhat baffled understanding of his genius. How wonderful it is that such a weird player is so effective. Straight up dominant. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
The Jazz jumped from ninth in Net Rating last season to first in 20-21. Read more »
The Title Chase Denver Has Had To Put On Ice
If Jamal Murray returns right, and nothing too drastic changes during this spell he's forced to miss, they can pick up right where they left off: in the thick of a championship hunt they just might come out of on top. Read more »
Aaron Gordon Is The Definition Of A 'Nice' Player, Now He Gets His Chance
When Aaron Gordon is asked to carry a team, he looks terrible. For the first time, he's stepping into a role he might be able to handle. With any luck, he'll soon forget about those All-Star Weekend slights, just like everybody else already has. Read more »
How Jerami Grant Betting On Himself Is A Repeat Of NBA History
Jerami Grant was certain to receive the reps to try and grow into a bigger role, but he's done even more than that. Grant has exceeded expectations. Read more »
20-21 NBA Season Preview: Northwest Division
The Nuggets and Jazz will largely look the same, while the Blazers addressed their depth issues, Minnesota looks for a third star, and the Thunder begin their aggressive rebuild. Read more »
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