The Clippers' Big 3 has been very good for many years, but each of them has evolved while they've found productive complementary roles for both J.J. Redick and Luc Mbah a Moute. Read more »
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How The Clippers' Starting Five Has Become So Dominant
League Pass Games Of The Week: Nov. 21-27
The NBA taking Thanksgiving off actually stocks the League Pass pond as it puts more games on the same nights. A fantastic Black Friday (including Spurs/Celtics in the Game of the Week) and a shocking four Blazers games headline a great League Pass stretch. Read more »
Phil Jackson And The Loss Of His Holistic Touch
Phil Jackson, a previously untouchable uncle of the game, is an early casualty in the NBA's version of the cultural sea change challenging everything right now. Read more »
Numbers Game: On The Blazers' Offense, Pistons' Rebounding
The Pistons and Blazers were two teams expected to take a step forward this season. For Detroit, they continue to rebound better without the league's leading rebounder while the Blazers have regressed on offense. Read more »
Jabari Parker Fulfilling His Promise In Year 3
Jabari Parker has changed his body, improved his handle and is now a more willing and capable three-point shooter. Parker is a classic tweener in what is now a good attribute and is on a trajectory of someday being an All-Star. Read more »
The Hubris Of The Oklahoma City Westbrooks
Russell Westbrook is a top-10 talent who plays his heart, soul and body out every night of the season, but the Thunder can't shake the ostensible reality they have one of the NBA's least talented and incompatible supporting casts around him. Read more »
How The Cavs & Clippers Are Improving Their Old Familiar Selves
In the Cavs and the Clippers, we're watching two squads who know they're good but also know they're going to have to be even better this season if they want to challenge the Warriors. All signs are positive so far and perhaps it's due to their continuity. Read more »
Duncan, Leroux Announce Twitter NBA Show
The Twitter NBA Show hosted by Nate Duncan and Danny Leroux will be built around nationally televised games, with a halftime show during each game and a postgame show after the final contest of the evening. Read more »
DeMar DeRozan Becoming The Franchise Player Few Expected
DeMar DeRozan doesn't evolve every year, so much as he relentlessly enhances what he's already really good at. His career has been an annual step in the right direction. Read more »
League Pass Games Of The Week: Nov. 14-20
Several must watch games this week featuring James Harden and the Rockets, Gordon Hayward and the Jazz, and Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks. Read more »
How Giannis Is Being Groomed To Lead the NBA's Next 'Big Three'
The things that the Bucks are currently doing with the Greek Freak are to develop him into a perfect complement to Jabari Parker and Khris Middleton. If it works the three of them might just take over the NBA. Read more »
Pacers At 50: Ranking Every Player In Franchise History (25-1)
Reggie Miller, Mel Daniels, Jermaine O'Neal, Roger Brown, Paul George and Ron Artest headline the list of the best Pacers in franchise history. Read more »
Pacers At 50: Ranking Every Player In Franchise History (307-26)
Jamaal Tinsley, Jeff Foster, Clark Kellogg, Antonio Davis and David West fell just outside the top-25. Read more »
The Revelation Of The Baby Lakers
If you're hiring Luke Walton, you know you're getting a quintessentially laidback Californian with a holistic basketball ideology who values fun and understands the game as a vehicle for it. Which is to say he is precisely what the Lakers required after Byron Scott's dour, blinkered troglodyte reign. Read more »
Prospect Report: Lonzo Ball Of UCLA
Lonzo Ball starts the season rated as lottery-caliber because shot creation is extremely valuable and because his height and length suggests positional versatility might be in his future, something that is at a premium in this Era of basketball. Read more »
League Pass Games Of The Week: Nov. 7-13
Beyond Clippers vs. Blazers as the headliner of the week, League Pass subscribers get to see some strong individual matchups, including Kyle Lowry vs. Russell Westbrook, Anthony Davis vs. Jabari Parker and Joel Embiid vs. Myles Turner. Read more »
Managing Portland's Crowded Center Rotation
It's a testament to Lillard, McCollum and Stotts that four promising young centers are so willing to play so hard for them in whatever limited opportunities they get. But it's also worth wondering if the center by committee rotation is actually less effective than if they had a player that could settle into that role with heavy minutes. Read more »
The Maximum Available 2017 Cap Space For All 30 NBA Teams, Version 2.0
Even though the salary cap projected to go over the $100 million mark for the first time in history, not as many teams will have cap space in 2017 as many might assume after this past summer's spending spree. Read more »
Victor Oladipo's $84M And The Continual Issues Of The NBA's Salary Cap System
Through one lens, Victor Oladipo may have just landed a contract that's a bit richer than he deserves. Through another, he's come out on top in a game that's rigged against him. Read more »
Thunder Continue Anticlimactic Way To Build Around A Top-Five Player
Even if Steven Adams and/or Victor Oladipo reach their potential, these deals still put a cap on Oklahoma City's ceiling while Russell Westbrook is a triple-double-averaging gargoyle. Read more »
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