A big part of how Andrew Wiggins is perceived is his salary, but it's also the fact that watching him is a uniquely discouraging experience. He's like a fighter jet made out of styrofoam. Read more »
Basketball Analysis
The New, Modest, Not Altogether Easily Achievable Goal For Andrew Wiggins
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (2/3-2/9)
Damian Lillard and the Blazers make three appearances on the list this week as he continues his tear. Read more »
The Pleasures Of Chris Paul Playing For Low Stakes
Chris Paul might have been happy for the opportunity to compete for titles in Los Angeles and Houston, but he was miserable throughout every game. Read more »
Game, Fame, Myth, Death: The Legacies Of Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant conceived of himself as an artist, with all the pretension and vanity that suggests. He appreciated the mythic dimension of his life and sought to control the shape of it. Read more »
Prospect Report: Tyrese Haliburton Of Iowa State
Maybe Tyrese Haliburton's rise to stardom says more about the general perception of a lack of superstar potential in this class or maybe the NBA is starting to adjust its view on what types of players it is looking for in the draft. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (1/20-1/26)
The Rockets have a pair of non-national games to pay close attention to this week. Read more »
The Myth Of The Injury That Can't Get Worse
The idea that an injury can't get worse, which coaches, trainers, and sometimes even players claim with infuriating regularity, is disingenuous bunk. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (Jan. 13-Jan. 19)
The Pacers make multiple appearances on our highlighted League Pass games just as they're about to get Victor Oladipo back. Read more »
The NBA All-Star Vote's Peaking Absurdity
The All-Star Game once had a faint purpose, but that was before League Pass, and well before the omnipresence of social media. The goofy campaigns of Alex Caruso and Tacko Fall are attempts to make it mean something by turning it into a farce. Read more »
Streaming Mediums, Shifting Messages And The Tension Between The Tangible & Ephemeral
NBA tension today is of the existential variety. The medium by which we consume basketball has changed, and apparently, so too has the message. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (Dec. 30-Jan. 5)
The Magic and Pistons make multiple appearances on the non-national games of the week list. Read more »
The Existential Struggle Of Dion Waiters
Dion Waiters has always been a scoring bench guard who thinks he's a star. Those types are pretty abundant, and most of them don't have Dion's baggage. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (12/23-12/29)
Multiple appearances from the Heat and a rare 14-game night on Saturday during the holiday week. Read more »
Everything In The NBA Is Optimized Even When Nothing's Happening At All
Everybody involved in Andre Iguodala's suspended animation season is acting rationally and reasonably, but there a depressing valence to this. Read more »
Kyrie Irving Will Always Be His Often Wonderful, Sometimes Difficult Self
Kyrie Irving is more annoyance than malignancy, but he is a volume annoyer, impressed with his Wikipedian knowledge of philosophy and art while confusing personality defects with genius. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (12/16-12/22)
The Rockets make multiple appearances on this list with games against the Spurs and Suns. Read more »
Nikola Jokic Is Not For The Haters
Nikola Jokic's scenic route to virtuosity is the price, nay, the reward of seeing him every night. Only a truly insane person could be mad about load management and wag a finger about Jokic playing his way into shape at .25x speed. Read more »
The Real Possibility Kevin Love Might Be Stuck
It's been five-plus oddly frictionless years in Cleveland, where Kevin Love has not been a leader or standout performer. Fine and less than fine, are the points between which he's vacillated. Read more »
NBA League Pass Games Of The Week (12/9-12/15)
Nuggets/Thunder, 76ers/Nets and Mavs/Pistons in Mexico City highlight this week's non-national games. Read more »
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