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NBA restart: Rosters, schedules and standings projections for every team
With scrimmages tipping off Wednesday, here’s our breakdown of every team in Orlando, Florida, including: current seed and most likely playoff seeds (via simulations using ESPN’s Basketball Power Index), remaining strength of schedule (ranked from hardest to easiest), seeding-game schedules (with win projections using BPI), full rosters and projected rotations. We’ve also included the number […]
Continue readingSeason’s impact on future salary caps central to NFL talks, sources say; NFLPA reps to talk Friday
NFL Players Association team player representatives are scheduled to convene on a conference call Friday morning as the players work to finalize an agreement with team owners on the rules and finances of the 2020 NFL season, according to sources. The sources said the two sides were still negotiating Thursday night on at least three […]
Continue readingThe cases for and against the NBA’s nine fringe playoff teams
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Wednesday that some players on non-title-contending teams are hesitant to restart. Rosters might be tweaked as a result, but the potential for a surprise postseason run remains. While the Memphis Grizzlies have the inside track at the Western Conference’s eighth seed, five teams are chasing them, including Damian Lillard‘s Portland […]
Continue readingEverything to know about the NBA’s 22-team restart at Walt Disney World
The NBA is back. Last week, the league’s board of governors and the players’ union both approved plans — a 22-team, eight-game wrap-up to the regular season followed by a possible play-in tournament for the eighth seed and playoffs — to resume the 2019-20 season on July 31 inside Walt Disney World’s ESPN Wide World […]
Continue readingFive NBA things I like and don’t like, including a Milwaukee Bucks mystery
As we approach the one-month mark since the night the NBA stopped, let’s look back on some of the good and bad of the 2019-20 season so far: I found it — the precise moment the Spurs’ defensive backslide hit its nadir: The Gregg Popovich we know and love — the version coaching a team […]
Continue readingHow the NBA coronavirus suspension impacts every team in the Western Conference
The NBA has suspended its season due to the spread of the coronavirus, and commissioner Adam Silver has stated the hiatus will last at least 30 days. On Sunday night, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported owners and executives are bracing for the possibility of mid-to-late June as a best-case scenario for a return. As the league […]
Continue readingFantasy NBA Daily Notes: Chicago rookie on a roll
In a rare victory, over the Wizards, White produced 26 of his 33 points in the first half in the process of becoming the first NBA rookie with at least 30 points in consecutive games off the bench since the league officially began tracking starters in 1970-71. In the Bulls’ previous game (a loss to […]
Continue readingElfrid Payton among top fantasy basketball free-agent finds
A willingness to entertain competition for the last few spots on your fantasy hoops roster can prove rewarding. When curating this fluid collective of statistical contributors, it helps to consider your end-of-bench players in direct competition with the talent floating in free agency. The goal of this weekly series is to identify players available in […]
Continue readingFantasy NBA Daily Notes: Eric Gordon lights it up
Gordon impressively needed only 22 shots from the floor to become the first player in NBA history to go more than a decade between 40-point performances, as his last such outing came on January 23, 2009. Gordon also became the only Rockets player not named Hakeem Olajuwon or James Harden to ever score 50 for […]
Continue readingTen NBA things I like and don’t like, including the Spurs’ new threat
Turns out, the perception that Gregg Popovich — increasingly cantankerous about the tyranny of 3s — hemmed in Aldridge was incorrect. After last season, Popovich approached Aldridge and suggested the team would need him to shoot more 3s, Aldridge told ESPN.com. The Spurs ranked sixth in points per possession last season, largely on the back […]
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