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The Jazz, Suns Will Soon Get To Decide For Themselves What They Are

The Jazz and Suns have established themselves as two different types of main character but they're both defined by a kind of improbability, an anxiety about whether or not what they've been so far reflects what they're truly made of.

The NBA's New Play-In Class Structure, And Who's Feeling It

by John Wilmes

The eight-team play-in zone is all of the following: extra competitive padding, extra competitive pressure, confusing, ephemeral, purgatorial, and a new benchmark for ascendancy.

It's Not Easy To Be As Good A Coach As Nate McMillan

by Colin McGowan

For all his flaws, Nate McMillan knows basketball and he knows how to treat people. That's not something to be taken for granted.

Sometimes Russell Westbrook Gets To Be Who He Is In His Imagination

by Colin McGowan

Russell Westbrook does everything so rapidly and all at once that it's hard to make sense of it, so it is fitting that his decline should happen unevenly.

December 2020 Basketball Wiretap