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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 Rise and Fall of NBA Generations
Much has been made of the Thunder as a quintessentially Zoomer champ. But when did prior generations gain — and lose — their grip on the league? And how…
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The Death of the Wild NBA Offseason
Just five 5+ WAR players have changed teams so far (and none with 10+ WAR), making this one of the quietest NBA summers since the 1980s — and a sharp…
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Revisiting the Jordan Years We Pretend Didn’t Happen
MJ’s time in Washington is often seen as a sad epilogue — but the truth is more complicated.
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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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The Pacers Almost Gave Us a Totally New Championship Blueprint
Despite coming up just short, Indiana might have given future NBA title hopefuls a new path for championship team-building — by breaking all of the old…
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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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