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🏀2024-25 NCAA Tournament Meta-Forecast 📊
Track each Division I men's basketball team's odds to make the NCAA tourney field.
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🏀 2024-25 NBA Forecast and Estimated RAPTOR Ratings 📈
Track how I'm forecasting every team’s chance to make — and win — the NBA Finals, all season long.
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The Sixers Are the NBA’s Loudest Circus — But the Pelicans Are the Real Sideshow
In a battle of the league's most disappointing teams, New Orleans actually somehow beats Philly.
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Which Sports Provide the Best Return on Your Time Investment?
And if we can’t shorten regulation games, can we at least shorten overtimes?
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Atlanta Is Where Opponents Forget How to Miss
The city has long been under a kind of sports curse, but now it’s getting weird — even by Atlanta standards.
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Does the NBA Have More Great Teams Than Ever — Or Just More Bad Ones?
The league is stacked at the top this year. It's also weak at the very bottom.
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Terry Rozier Doesn’t Fit the Usual Profile of Sports Betting Scandals — And Leagues Should Be Worried
Most players caught in gambling scandals have been fringe guys with little to lose. Rozier is different.
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The Lakers Keep Getting Away With This
By trading for Luka Dončić in his prime, the franchise continues its long-running trend of replenishment through acquiring Hall of Fame talent.
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Mailbag! LeBron's 3 HOF Careers, Planning For Ovechkin's Record, Hoosier Losses and Head-to-Head QBs
It's time for a long-overdue answering of reader questions.
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Can the Lions Keep Detroit’s Sports Renaissance Flourishing?
The city has already turned a lot of things around from just a few years ago.
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It’s Cool That Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokić Are the Two Best Players in Basketball
Amid complaints of boring sameness, the NBA's top two players either play like our all-time favorites, or no one else.
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The Knicks Are Riding Brunson and Towns — But Are They a One-Trick Pony?
New York depends on its starters (and main stars) more than any team. We dive into how they might build a more sustainable model.
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