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BasketballCooper Flagg leaves the floor at Gainbridge: Dallas Mavericks win 121-105 and the void before the night against Victor WembanyamaAn 18-year-old lands on the hardwood and stays there. The whistle blows, the...
BasketballWhen the Data Is Empty: Lessons From a Broken Basketball Analysis PipelineThere are nights when I sit in front of a screen, open a nine-part analysis,...
BasketballKoloko to Red Star: A Defensive Patch and the Blanks in the ContractRed Star Belgrade's announcement ran three lines. No duration. No salary. No...
BasketballKnicks Waive Bruce Brown: The Second Apron Reads the Ledger, Not the PlaybookBruce Brown played all 82 games in Denver's 2026 championship season. This...
BasketballBasketball Without Fans and the Lie of the NumbersWhen I sat in an empty NBA arena during the 2026-2026 season, looking at...
BasketballZubac Relearns How to Run: A 7-Foot Traditional Center in Indiana's Uptempo MachineOne sentence stayed with me all week, longer than any number in the report....
BasketballDylan Harper and the Spurs' Three-Guard Gamble: When Wembanyama Needs Spacing More Than a ShooterIn the first half of a preseason game, Dylan Harper took more than twice as...
BasketballEttore Messina and the Limits of a Salary Cap: Why the NBA's 'Common Economic Pie' Cannot Be Sliced in Europe"We cannot simply talk about a salary cap in Europe." Ettore Messina said tha...
BasketballTransfer Season and the Lesson From a Data Pipeline That Returned ZeroMelbourne, July, 5:40 in the morning. Before the European transfer window...
BasketballAnthony Davis, 16 Points in 17 Minutes, and Washington's $62.8 Million Question17 minutes. 16 points. 6-of-11 shooting, including 2-of-2 from three, plus 7...
BasketballAfter Mike Breen's apology: Philadelphia's real hole is in the frontcourt, not the Embiid anecdoteMike Breen is not a man who apologizes easily. For nearly three decades behin...
BasketballAriel Hukporti Suffers Right Achilles Tear in Philadelphia 76ers Preseason OpenerThe Philadelphia 76ers have lost center Ariel Hukporti for the entire 2026-27...
BasketballThree Names Scratched in Philadelphia: Reading the Preseason Inactive List Through Cash FlowPreseason opener, Wells Fargo Center. On the active list, three names are...
BasketballAris and PAOK Submit EuroLeague Franchise Bids: The 13-for-8 Race and the Power Line with the NBAOctober 6 is a date I marked in red in my data notebook, not because of a gam...
BasketballSchröder and Charlotte's Gamble: When a Young Team Buys a Teacher, Not a StarTeam number 12. The sixth team in 20 months. A 31-year-old guard coming off a...
BasketballMiami's Twin Towers: Defense Is Set, Spacing Remains UnknownIn the internal tracking sheet I keep for the new season, two data lines sit...
BasketballThe Basketball Analytics Industry Is Fooling Itself With Empty Data TablesOn the night of March 14, 2026, on the most-watched NBA commentary show in th...
BasketballPortland Trail Blazers Fire Broadcaster Braiden Bell Over Old Posts: A Hiring Vetting Failure Before the SeasonAt 10:03 a.m. local time, the Portland Trail Blazers issued a press release...
BasketballDonovan Mitchell and the 10th Signature Shoe: When a Brand Buys Longevity, Not a SeasonOn a June afternoon in Shenzhen, I reopened an endorsement contract a CBA...
BasketballSeven NBA stars returning from injury for 2026-27: Who is worth the bet, who is just a name to read outI sat in the third row of a training facility in Dallas, on a September 2026...
BasketballDetroit Pays Jalen Duren $200 Million: A Paper Bargain, A Playoff Question MarkI remember vividly the moment at the end of the series between the Detroit...
BasketballNBA Announces Las Vegas Team Buyer with $12-13 Billion InvestmentThe moment of tension before the decisive press conference of the NBA was not...
BasketballDenver Nuggets and Nikola Jokic: A Fateful Gamble Before the 2026-27 SeasonIn basketball, there are moments when a stadium does not need applause to say...
BasketballCleveland Cavaliers: Kenny Atkinson Believes Mario Hezonja Will Bring External Spark from EuropeCleveland Cavaliers are entering the final stages of preparation for the...
BasketballStephen Curry and the 'No Drama' Line: The $55 Million Gap Shaping the Warriors' FutureThe answer was so short it was easy to miss. "No drama." Stephen Curry said i...
BasketballThe 21 Names Left Out of EuroLeague's Top 50 and What They Say About the League's DepthWhen Eurohoops published the first part of its ranking of the 50 best...
BasketballThe Seventh Home: Juancho Hernangomez and the Season He Himself Calls a FailureI remember an October afternoon in Chicago, sitting in a small café on Halste...
BasketballThe Six-Second Empty Shell: How Basketball Analysis Learned to Say Plenty and NothingHook On the night of July 12, I sat in a studio in Shenzhen, my headphones...
International FootballPosition Is Only the Starting Point: Positionless Basketball and the Price of Being EarlyOn May 9, 2026, in the fourth quarter of the Eastern Conference semifinals,...
BasketballEttore Messina and the NBA's Back Door: When 'Advisor' Is a Planned EscapeHartsfield-Jackson, Atlanta, 6:40 a.m. I'm standing at gate B14, holding a...
BasketballThe $39.4M Contract and ACL Injury: Why Kyrie Irving Is Unlikely to Go to MiamiRumors have swirled that Kyrie Irving, the 34-year-old Dallas Mavericks star,...
BasketballKawhi Leonard's Return to Toronto: A 35-Year-Old Gamble and the Lesson from Five Forfeited PicksWhen the NBA announced the forfeiture of five future first-round picks from t...
BasketballEmpty Courts Still Tell Stories: The Journey of Vietnamese Basketball from Dorm Rooms to Big ArenasEmpty courts still tell stories. That is what I learned in March 2026, when t...
BasketballHistoric Shock: NBA Penalizes LA Clippers and Kawhi Leonard for Salary Cap ViolationsWhen the NBA announced its historic penalty against the LA Clippers and Kawhi...
BasketballCade Cunningham and the Off-Ball Equation: What Are the Detroit Pistons Looking For?When I reviewed the Detroit Pistons' playoff film last season, one number...
BasketballBiberovic Leaves Fenerbahçe for Dallas: The EuroLeague Map and the NBA StormWhen Tarık Biberovic sat before the Skorer TV camera and spoke about leaving...
BasketballNumbers Are Just a Map: Why the Oklahoma City Thunder Are Playing a Different GameWhen I sat in my quarantine room in Miami during the 2026 pandemic, I never...
BasketballWhen the Data Is Empty: Lessons From a Broken Basketball Analysis PipelineThere are nights when I sit in front of a screen, open a nine-part analysis,...
BasketballKoloko to Red Star: A Defensive Patch and the Blanks in the ContractRed Star Belgrade's announcement ran three lines. No duration. No salary. No...
BasketballKnicks Waive Bruce Brown: The Second Apron Reads the Ledger, Not the PlaybookBruce Brown played all 82 games in Denver's 2026 championship season. This...
BasketballBasketball Without Fans and the Lie of the NumbersWhen I sat in an empty NBA arena during the 2026-2026 season, looking at...
BasketballZubac Relearns How to Run: A 7-Foot Traditional Center in Indiana's Uptempo MachineOne sentence stayed with me all week, longer than any number in the report....
BasketballDylan Harper and the Spurs' Three-Guard Gamble: When Wembanyama Needs Spacing More Than a ShooterIn the first half of a preseason game, Dylan Harper took more than twice as...
BasketballEttore Messina and the Limits of a Salary Cap: Why the NBA's 'Common Economic Pie' Cannot Be Sliced in Europe"We cannot simply talk about a salary cap in Europe." Ettore Messina said tha...
BasketballTransfer Season and the Lesson From a Data Pipeline That Returned ZeroMelbourne, July, 5:40 in the morning. Before the European transfer window...
BasketballAnthony Davis, 16 Points in 17 Minutes, and Washington's $62.8 Million Question17 minutes. 16 points. 6-of-11 shooting, including 2-of-2 from three, plus 7...
BasketballAfter Mike Breen's apology: Philadelphia's real hole is in the frontcourt, not the Embiid anecdoteMike Breen is not a man who apologizes easily. For nearly three decades behin...
BasketballAriel Hukporti Suffers Right Achilles Tear in Philadelphia 76ers Preseason OpenerThe Philadelphia 76ers have lost center Ariel Hukporti for the entire 2026-27...
BasketballThree Names Scratched in Philadelphia: Reading the Preseason Inactive List Through Cash FlowPreseason opener, Wells Fargo Center. On the active list, three names are...
BasketballAris and PAOK Submit EuroLeague Franchise Bids: The 13-for-8 Race and the Power Line with the NBAOctober 6 is a date I marked in red in my data notebook, not because of a gam...
BasketballSchröder and Charlotte's Gamble: When a Young Team Buys a Teacher, Not a StarTeam number 12. The sixth team in 20 months. A 31-year-old guard coming off a...
BasketballMiami's Twin Towers: Defense Is Set, Spacing Remains UnknownIn the internal tracking sheet I keep for the new season, two data lines sit...
BasketballThe Basketball Analytics Industry Is Fooling Itself With Empty Data TablesOn the night of March 14, 2026, on the most-watched NBA commentary show in th...
BasketballPortland Trail Blazers Fire Broadcaster Braiden Bell Over Old Posts: A Hiring Vetting Failure Before the SeasonAt 10:03 a.m. local time, the Portland Trail Blazers issued a press release...
BasketballDonovan Mitchell and the 10th Signature Shoe: When a Brand Buys Longevity, Not a SeasonOn a June afternoon in Shenzhen, I reopened an endorsement contract a CBA...
BasketballSeven NBA stars returning from injury for 2026-27: Who is worth the bet, who is just a name to read outI sat in the third row of a training facility in Dallas, on a September 2026...
BasketballDetroit Pays Jalen Duren $200 Million: A Paper Bargain, A Playoff Question MarkI remember vividly the moment at the end of the series between the Detroit...
BasketballNBA Announces Las Vegas Team Buyer with $12-13 Billion InvestmentThe moment of tension before the decisive press conference of the NBA was not...
BasketballDenver Nuggets and Nikola Jokic: A Fateful Gamble Before the 2026-27 SeasonIn basketball, there are moments when a stadium does not need applause to say...
BasketballCleveland Cavaliers: Kenny Atkinson Believes Mario Hezonja Will Bring External Spark from EuropeCleveland Cavaliers are entering the final stages of preparation for the...
BasketballStephen Curry and the 'No Drama' Line: The $55 Million Gap Shaping the Warriors' FutureThe answer was so short it was easy to miss. "No drama." Stephen Curry said i...
BasketballThe 21 Names Left Out of EuroLeague's Top 50 and What They Say About the League's DepthWhen Eurohoops published the first part of its ranking of the 50 best...
BasketballThe Seventh Home: Juancho Hernangomez and the Season He Himself Calls a FailureI remember an October afternoon in Chicago, sitting in a small café on Halste...
BasketballThe Six-Second Empty Shell: How Basketball Analysis Learned to Say Plenty and NothingHook On the night of July 12, I sat in a studio in Shenzhen, my headphones...
International FootballPosition Is Only the Starting Point: Positionless Basketball and the Price of Being EarlyOn May 9, 2026, in the fourth quarter of the Eastern Conference semifinals,...
BasketballEttore Messina and the NBA's Back Door: When 'Advisor' Is a Planned EscapeHartsfield-Jackson, Atlanta, 6:40 a.m. I'm standing at gate B14, holding a...
BasketballThe $39.4M Contract and ACL Injury: Why Kyrie Irving Is Unlikely to Go to MiamiRumors have swirled that Kyrie Irving, the 34-year-old Dallas Mavericks star,...
BasketballKawhi Leonard's Return to Toronto: A 35-Year-Old Gamble and the Lesson from Five Forfeited PicksWhen the NBA announced the forfeiture of five future first-round picks from t...
BasketballEmpty Courts Still Tell Stories: The Journey of Vietnamese Basketball from Dorm Rooms to Big ArenasEmpty courts still tell stories. That is what I learned in March 2026, when t...
BasketballHistoric Shock: NBA Penalizes LA Clippers and Kawhi Leonard for Salary Cap ViolationsWhen the NBA announced its historic penalty against the LA Clippers and Kawhi...
BasketballCade Cunningham and the Off-Ball Equation: What Are the Detroit Pistons Looking For?When I reviewed the Detroit Pistons' playoff film last season, one number...
BasketballBiberovic Leaves Fenerbahçe for Dallas: The EuroLeague Map and the NBA StormWhen Tarık Biberovic sat before the Skorer TV camera and spoke about leaving...
BasketballNumbers Are Just a Map: Why the Oklahoma City Thunder Are Playing a Different GameWhen I sat in my quarantine room in Miami during the 2026 pandemic, I never...
