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🏀 2026 WNBA Elo Team Power Rankings and Player Rankings 📈
Power ratings for every WNBA team and player this season.
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Neil Paine
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We Don't Know What We Want From All-Star Games
Fans rejected the NBA's artificial spectacle. Then baseball gave them something more real — and they hated that, too.
Jul 16
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Neil Paine
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The Celtics Won the Future and Lost the Plot
Boston may have won the asset math, but they traded Jaylen Brown to a rival at the exact moment they should have been maximizing the present.
Jul 2
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Neil Paine
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The Bicentennial Summer That Made Modern Sports
America spent 1976 looking backward. But beneath all the red, white and blue pageantry, sports were changing in ways that would define the next…
Jul 2
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Neil Paine
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Everyone Is Coping With the Knicks' Title in Their Own Way
In a league caught between wide-open parity and looming dynasties, every contender is talking itself into a different path forward.
Jun 30
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Neil Paine
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The 2026 NBA Draft's Real Value? Saving Teams From Themselves.
Historically, stacked drafts don't make the No. 1 pick more likely to become a superstar. Instead, they reduce the chances that teams at the top pick a…
Jun 23
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Neil Paine
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The Market Still Doesn't Know What to Do With the Knicks
Even after a record-breaking title run, New York isn't close to being favored to repeat — which might say as much about the NBA's new age of uncertainty…
Jun 15
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Neil Paine
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🏀 2025-26 NBA Elo Forecast and Player Ratings 📈
Track how I'm forecasting every team’s chance to make — and win — the NBA Finals, all season long.
Jun 14
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Neil Paine
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The Knicks Are the Perfect Champ For the NBA's Weirdest Era
New York ended 53 years of frustration not with a textbook superteam or an alien-level superstar, but with a roster built perfectly for a league where…
Jun 14
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Neil Paine
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The Lynx Lost Their MVP. Somehow, They Got Better.
Minnesota was supposed to be in survival mode until Napheesa Collier returned. Instead, rookie Olivia Miles has turned them into WNBA title favorites …
Jun 12
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Neil Paine
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The Knicks Picked the Perfect Time to (Apparently) Become a Superteam
The Knicks came into the playoffs looking like just another contender. Now up 2-0 in the Finals, New York is tracking for one of the most dominant…
Jun 8
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Neil Paine
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The Spurs Rebuilt Their Dynasty in Fast-Forward
San Antonio let one Finals team disappear completely, hit rock-bottom... and then built another around Victor Wembanyama in a hurry.
Jun 3
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Neil Paine
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