NBA players will not play extra hard for their employer's improved first-round draft picks. Players might even take it easier, because if winning down the stretch is the quickest way toward a top-five pick to replace me at half the cost, I'd probably miss a few
While sitting at press row on Wednesday night inside the Pacer arena I realized my first time watching LeBron James at press row in the Pacers arena back in 2005 wasn't with LeBron James actually in the Pacers' arena. It was at about this time that I
Remember, at the 2031 NBA draft, it isn't "the Rob Dillingham trade," but "the Ayo Dosunmu-trade." Chicago hopes it turns back into "the Rob Dillingham trade," and, you know, good luck with that. Minnesota already made Ayo the prize of the trade
Isn't that fun? Competitive game between two teams on Monday, banked, now we sharpen our chops in anticipation of a rematch on Wednesday. Nobody flies anywhere, flying drains wheels. No wasted steps moving from hotel to hotel. Better yet, the rancor can't help but build between
The freshest. Last weekend we mentioned Donovan Mitchell not having to play the Nets for a third time and meant it, these little things matter. The rest of the NBA wants to focus on big things, 83 points, tankers who win three of ten contests and bump themselves out of
Where were you when you heard Bam Adebayo was busting toward 83 points? Because youse weren't watching the Miami Heat play the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night. At least one reader was – hi Coup, thanks for the continued support – but even among an audience overwhelmingly made up of
LeBron James now has more NBA field goals than any other player, topping Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. More importantly: I and you and everyone you know watched basketball scores from LeBron James than any other player we've ever seen, and probably by a lot. Those protesting my postulating may claim
Last week I changed the Beg-o-Meter at the top of this website to the 'Finals Fund,' because that's what I'm after, money to drive to the 2026 NBA Finals. I don't know where I'm driving. Draw a line toward Oklahoma
For years, NBA teams could pay NBA players whatever the team wanted to. A 25-year, $25 million deal? Draw it up. Superstar contract leapt over the salary cap? Let it leap, and name the exception to the rule after the superstar. Want to be paid a single dollar more than
Many things I seek to tell my subscribers, things which deliver me joy and spark my further interest, but none of to lead, man, none of them bleed. Spent all Sunday looking for something with red on its horns, something to top the Monday column so the Orlando Magic didn&
No Jalen Duren, no Isaiah Stewart. Rowdy rah-rah halftime speech from Knicks head coach Mike Brown, Stephen Fry at the Knicks game, didn't faze the Pistons, did not faze them, crunched the Knicks, crunched them on Thursday, 126-111. Detroit entered the All-Star break with the NBA's
This column is free, consider supporting! This is the newsletter's ninth NBA season and we don't raise prices. What if the NBA decided long ago, as the NBA hinted long ago, to have its best domestic players take on the finest international performers currently employed by