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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…
Jul 7
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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.
Jul 2
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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.
Jun 25
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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…
Jun 24
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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.
Jun 23
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🏀 2024-25 NBA Forecast and Estimated RAPTOR Ratings 📈
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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…
Jun 23
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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…
Jun 20
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The Pacers Are 1 Win from the Greatest Upset in (Recent) Finals History
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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.
Jun 16
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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.
Jun 13
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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…
Jun 10
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Is Jalen Williams Actually the Thunder’s Key to Winning?
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