Basketball

🏀 2024 WNBA Elo Team Power Rankings and Player Rankings 📈

Power ratings for every WNBA team this season.

2 hrs ago •

Paul George Makes the Sixers Serious NBA Title Contenders, If History Is a Guide

...But is history a guide right now?

Jul 1 •

Which NBA Teams Get the Most Bang for Their Free-Agency Buck?

Sometimes, you only get what you pay for. Sometimes, you're the Miami Heat... or the San Antonio Spurs.

Jun 28 •

Do We Know a Weak NBA Draft When We See It?

And how sure can we be that 2024 is one?

Jun 26 •

Why Don’t the Advanced Metrics Like Caitlin Clark (Yet)?

Analytic value stats are lukewarm — at best — on the Indiana Fever's rookie sensation so far.

Jun 21 •

The Year Of The Celtics

Wire to wire, Boston just finished off an NBA championship season that ranks among history's most dominant.

Jun 18 •

🏀 2023-24 NBA Estimated RAPTOR Player Ratings and Wins Above Replacement 🦖

Do you miss the old FiveThirtyEight RAPTOR ratings? I sure do. But while those are no longer updating via Disney (I don’t know their long-term future…

Jun 18 •

🏀 2023-24 NBA Elo Power Rankings 📈

Power ratings for every NBA team this season.

Jun 18 •

🏀 2023-24 NBA Forecast 📈

Track how I'm forecasting every team’s chance to make — and win — the NBA Finals, all season long.

Jun 18 •

Neither Championship Sweep Happened. (BOY, Did They Ever Not Happen.)

Blowout Game 4 wins for the Mavericks and Oilers were as emphatic as any we've seen from teams down 0-3.

Jun 17 •

The NBA (and NHL) Finals Could Be a Championship Sweep. We Don’t See Those Much Anymore.

Across the series-based major men's pro sports, we're running way behind how many championship-round sweeps "should" happen.

Jun 14 •

Jerry West Was Basketball’s Greatest Lifer

The Lakers legend, who died at age 86 on Wednesday, was successful at every level of the game.

Jun 12 •

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