2019-20 is here: Dallas Mavericks

Clippers collapse, Bulls go big?

L.A., infamously, cannot bottom out. The Clippers, too, the team owes its unprotected 2026 first-round pick to Oklahoma City, L.A. cannot profit from its harrowing 2025-26 descent. A Billy King-sized abyss surrounding a miserable so-far season, well on pace for maybe 20 wins. Anyone who caught what Miami

What if Chris Paul stayed a Laker?

Cannot remember the first time I saw Chris Paul photoshopped into a Los Angeles Lakers uniform. But I can remember the most recent sighting, the night Chris Paul's retirement announcement spread, spotting two separate instances on social media. Lakers fans never got over Chris Paul's Dec.

Western surprises

We did the East, but now we do the good teams: NOT SURPRISED At the bodacious NBA ball so far, performed in spite of the Thunder on the horizon. Oh, they say you can't see thunder, but if that ain't thunder, then what is it I&

Eastern Surprises

Nobody's shocked that Detroit won 14 of 16 to start the season. Surprised, surely, but not put off by the Piston ascent. This team was good last season, won some close games in the regular season before losing some closer ones in the playoffs. But everyone improved, and