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🏀 2025 WNBA Elo Team Power Rankings and Player Rankings 📈
Power ratings for every WNBA team and player this season.
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The NBA Draft Matters More Than It Used To
Stockpiling (and spending) picks is more correlated with winning in the 2020s than at any other time in recent league history.
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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 Thunder Finally Struck
Oklahoma City outlasted the Pacers to win the 2025 NBA title — the franchise’s first since moving from Seattle... and maybe the league’s last before a…
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The Pacers Are 1 Win from the Greatest Upset in (Recent) Finals History
Just when it looked like order might return to the NBA, the Pacers pushed the Finals to a decisive Game 7 — and prolonged the league’s season of…
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The Probability That Could Haunt Indiana
The Pacers were on the verge of going up 3-1 in the Finals. Now they're tied 2-2 — playing for either a title, or a regrettable footnote in NBA history.
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What The Pacers Have Done To OKC
The Thunder weren't themselves in Game 3, and Indiana is now 2 wins from an unlikely NBA title.
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Is Jalen Williams Actually the Thunder’s Key to Winning?
I analyzed which Thunder and Pacers players had the strongest statistical ties to team success. The results were surprising — and told a more…
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The Astrology of the 2025 NBA Finals
We once again look to the stars — and maybe a few numbers, too — to explain this championship-worthy Thunder-Pacers matchup.
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The Pacers Have Always Been Just Good Enough to Fall Short. Could This Year Be Different?
After decades of near-misses and never-quite-fulfilled promise, Indiana finally has a chance to channel its dynastic past — and become great by beating…
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Be Afraid of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Be Very Afraid.
Whatever happens in these NBA Finals, OKC's time is now — and tomorrow, and probably the day after that, too.
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Please Come Back Soon, Caitlin Clark — Signed, the WNBA
With the normally-indestructible star on the sidelines, the W may badly miss the benefits of the Clark Effect.
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