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NBA Continuity Rankings: Which teams hold the edge in the bubble?
Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone, whose team checks in near the top of our list, has high hopes. “Continuity [will] help with trying to create a home-court advantage,” Malone said earlier this month of playing at a neutral-site in Orlando, Florida. “We have guys that have been together for a while, know how to […]
Continue readingHow the NBA bubble has become a platform for social justice
He saw “Black Lives Matter” in large, white letters across each side of two buses that had arrived to take the Raptors to the NBA’s campus at Walt Disney World Resort. “It was dope,” VanVleet said. “They didn’t even tell us they were doing that.” The defending NBA champions were sending a message as they […]
Continue readingNBA 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 reading2020 NBA restart key dates: Playoffs, draft and free-agency schedule
What is the new NBA schedule for the playoffs, draft, free agency and other key events? As players return to their home markets and decide whether to participate in the NBA restart, teams are narrowing their list of travel personnel to the approved 37 people per team. That will be only one of many steps […]
Continue readingBrooklyn Nets’ Garrett Temple: Playing, earning go long way in furthering cause
The Nets’ Garrett Temple, a vice president for the National Basketball Players Association, told ESPN that he believes playing games and earning a paycheck is actually one of the best ways players can combat the systemic oppression of black people. “The difference in the economic gap between white America and black America is astronomical,” Temple […]
Continue readingDeAndre Jordan disputes reports about Kenny Atkinson’s exit
Brooklyn Nets center DeAndre Jordan strongly disputed reports that linked coach Kenny Atkinson’s departure to the high-profile players — namely Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant — signed by the team last summer. “Yeah, I’m close to Kyrie, but Wilson [Chandler] is a new player, Garrett Temple’s a new player,” Jordan said Sunday. “We’re all new […]
Continue readingKyrie’s season is over (again), but does that mean Brooklyn’s is?
This was the beauty of Durant’s and Irving’s pledge to sign with Brooklyn. While the Nets will go only as far as Durant takes them, they’d get a full season to watch Irving and their young core get acclimated. Given those plans included Irving and his injury-filled history, they were far from foolproof. So when […]
Continue readingKyrie Irving replaces Pau Gasol as a VP of players’ union
Irving replaces Pau Gasol on the NBPA executive committee. Gasol’s three-year term expired. “This was the right time for me to run for a leadership position in the NBPA,” Irving said. “I have been an observer and a participant in union affairs for a while, but for the most part, I was off on the […]
Continue readingNets’ Kyrie Irving channels ‘Mamba mentality’ while dropping 54 on Bulls
He put them to good use Friday, when he scored a season-high 54 points, making all 10 shots in the first half and 19-of-23 for the game, to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a 133-118 victory over the Chicago Bulls. “It’s an open wound,” Irving said. “But I think just coming out here, knowing that […]
Continue readingKyrie Irving puts 54 points on the Chicago Bulls with ‘Kobe mentality’
NEW YORK — In a night of spectacular shooting that featured there’s-no-way-that-goes-in floaters and disrespectfully deep 3-pointers that accumulated into an improbable, awesome 54-point performance Friday, it was Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving‘s first-half finale that dropped jaws. Arena security guards couldn’t believe it. Reporters on press row couldn’t help but let out an […]
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