OKC's Sam Presti is an overrated draft savant
Sam Presti is the only NBA executive ever to draft three future MVPs and he did it in three consecutive drafts. It’s a maniacal stroke…
Sam Presti is the only NBA executive ever to draft three future MVPs and he did it in three consecutive drafts. It’s a maniacal stroke…
Photo: Getty Images Brunson is starting to look like the second coming of Chris Paul, just without the lousy attitude. He is making his teammates…
Curses run deep. They fester in bloodlines, foundations and scorched Earth and are lamented in prose, lyric and declaration. From Shakespeare to Dostoevsky, curses are…
Photo: Getty Images This one wasn’t even close. No player comes close to Howard’s impact or resonance with the Magic. It seems like every decade…
No team in recent memory has failed to build around a generational superstar more than the Dallas Mavericks have with Luka Dončić. We are not…
At his introductory press conference on Sept. 22, 2022, Jalen Brunson sat at a podium, decked out in a crisp number 11 New York Knick…
Photo: Getty Images There is no greater conduit for NBA hyperbole than the conversation around “superstars.” To have a rational, substantive debate, there must first…
Photo: Getty Images From the moment it happened in the summer of 2022, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ acquisition of Rudy Gobert from the Utah Jazz looked…
Photo: Getty Images It’s not hyperbolic to predict that Jokic will be one of the greatest of all time when all is said and done….
Every other generation, a player changes how his position is taught, scouted and played. For the current generation of players entering their prime years, that…