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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 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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The Probability That Could Haunt Indiana
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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 14
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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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What The Pacers Have Done To OKC
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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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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.
Jun 5
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The Astrology of the 2025 NBA Finals
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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…
Jun 3
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The Pacers Have Always Been Just Good Enough to Fall Short. Could This Year Be Different?
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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.
May 29
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Be Afraid of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Be Very Afraid.
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It’s Thunder or Bust Now
The 2025 NBA playoffs have chewed up and spat out the top seeds — except OKC. With 60%+ title odds, the Thunder are carrying the torch for the favorites…
May 20
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Nobody Has the Knicks’ Number Like the Pacers
(Nobody except for Michael Jordan, that is.)
May 19
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Round 2 of the 2025 Playoffs Is Breaking the NBA
The Celtics are flailing, the Cavs are cratering and home teams can’t buy a win. The wildest second round in modern NBA history has turned the playoffs…
May 13
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Round 2 of the 2025 Playoffs Is Breaking the NBA
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The Celtics Are Having the Most Choke-Tastic Start to a Series in Modern NBA History
Boston has lost more late-game win probability than any team to begin a series in the modern era — and it might end up costing them everything.
May 9
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The Celtics Are Having the Most Choke-Tastic Start to a Series in Modern NBA History
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