While we are starting to get a better idea where teams fall with respect to their conferences, this week provides a few illuminating games that should challenge individual players and teams alike. Plus, a few non-national Kevin Durant games to keep things interesting. Read more »

Looking at the ASG credentials of Anthony Davis, Goran Dragic, Kyle Lowry, Lance Stephenson, John Wall, Andre Drummond and more, along with several notes on the criteria for how reserves should be selected. Read more »

Most teams are hitting the halfway mark in their seasons and we get some chances to look beyond just who will make the playoffs and get a better look at the teams that may make some actual noise. The Blazers have another huge week with two big road games in Oklahoma City and Oakland for the Game of the Week. Read more »

With approximately three months remaining in the regular season, the Pelicans are in a tough spot from an organizational perspective. The combination of their 15-23 record, harsh batch of injuries, and the stacked Western Conference have made the playoffs an unlikely proposition and they lose their pick if it falls out of the top-5. Read more »

Several appearances this week in important League Pass games for the Blazers, Jazz, Mavericks, Pistons and Pelicans. Read more »

A surprisingly weak stretch of non-national games but still plenty worth keeping an eye on this week, headlined by the home and home between the Mavericks and Pelicans. Read more »

As the NFL shifts from the regular season to the playoffs, the NBA begins to clarify the buyers and sellers as we head towards the trade deadline. Teams like the Pistons, Suns, and Celtics have had interesting seasons so far but need to assess where they are going now and for the next few years. Read more »

The Christmas holiday changes the structure of the week, taking quality non-national games away from a few days and making others stronger. Both Monday and Saturday look especially deep with Miami traveling to Portland on Saturday taking center stage. Read more »

As we get closer to the holidays, the NBA season turns to more games within conferences, leading to some fun matchups between Western Conference foes and some tilts that can help distill a strange Eastern Conference picture. Read more »

A surprisingly weak set of games made more interesting by the Rudy Gay trade, though the Wolves, Suns and Pistons make two appearances with interesting matchups. Read more »

The week after Thanksgiving features a shockingly large amount of great games, many of them involving the Pacers. The league’s only one-loss team goes on the road to face the Clippers, Blazers, Jazz, Spurs and Thunder in an eight-day span. Read more »

Strangely, none of the major market teams have the competitive advantage of their location and a top-flight organizational reputation. History and money are still (largely) on their sides but players have become more conscious of organizational quality in recent years. Read more »

Taking Thanksgiving off actually helped give the NBA a more stacked schedule the other days of the week, leading to quality games throughout the holiday weekend. We have some quality tests for teams trying to establish themselves and a few truly high-level matchups of teams expected to make noise in the playoffs. Read more »

Transitioning to a new generation of consoles provided an opportunity for game development teams to create new properties or transform existing ones to take advantage of new hardware. For NBA 2K14, the boldest decision was debuting a completely new mode on the next generation version of the game, called MyGM designed at replicating the experience of a GM. Read more »

There are some interesting matchups this week that should help sort out the NBA hierarchies somewhat, with the Clippers having a particularly challenging week against four different potential playoff teams. Read more »

Kyrie Irving has a weeklong tour of point guard battles with Derrick Rose, Ricky Rubio and John Wall in League Pass action, while the Pacers, Wolves and Blazers also make multiple apperaances. Read more »

Michael Carter-Williams and the 76ers make multiple NNGW appearances this week after their shocking start, while the Warriors are listed three times (including a playoff rematch at San Antonio). Read more »

While there are no direct criteria, my non-national teams have to have entertainment value on a game to game basis and fascinating pieces in the form of young talent or new additions. Each of these squads fits that bill and there were a few tough omissions as well. Read more »

With an interesting group of teams outside of the big spotlight, this should be an incredibly strong season in terms of League Pass, starting off with multiple appearances by Josh Smith and the Pistons and Dwight Howard's Rockets. Read more »

This season should provide the Cavaliers with plenty of opportunities to analyze the talent they have on roster, which will be necessary since they will need to make some tough calls if they want to preserve enough cap space to sign LeBron James outright. Read more »