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theringer.com May 26, 2017
The Casual Fan’s Guide to Learning About the 2017 NBA Draft Class, Part II

Which prospects boosted their stock at the combine? Which tweeners are best positioned to shoot up draft boards? And what the hell does Frank Mason III have to do to get some NBA love?The only NBA draft guide that promises little to no discussion of Markelle Fultz and Lonzo Ball is back with Part I
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theringer.com May 25, 2017
The Casual Fan’s Guide to Learning About the 2017 NBA Draft Class, Part I

There’s more to this group of prospects than Markelle Fultz and Lonzo Ball. Get familiar with the best of the rest, from safe bets to specialists to former top recruits who barely played in college.
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theringer.com May 26, 2017
Pop and the President

Despite their losses in the conference finals, Gregg Popovich’s Spurs remain a stable institution while Brad Stevens’s Celtics are on their way to becoming oneGregg Popovich and Brad Stevens ran into history. We knew The Trilogy was coming.
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wsj.com May 25, 2017
The Forgotten Basketball Pioneer Who Made Stephen Curry Possible

Walter Vincenti is 100 years old and the winner of NASA’s lifetime achievement honor for aeronautical engineering. He’s seen some things. One of the most remarkable things he’s seen was a basketball game that featured a glimpse of Stephen Curry—half a century before Stephen Curry was born.
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sbnation.com May 26, 2017
Could LeBron make the playoffs with any team? Here's what NBA 2K says.

LeBron James has conquered nearly all of his mountains. He took his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers to the NBA Finals after they drafted him first overall. He won his first two championships during a pilgrimage in Miami before returning to the Cavaliers in 2014.
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bleacherreport.com May 24, 2017
Inside a Conspiracy of Comfort: Why It's Time to Rethink What Coaches Wear

Stan Van Gundy is running away from me. OK, not running.
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bleacherreport.com May 26, 2017
Cast Aside by the NBA, Royce White Rediscovering What Made Him Great...in Canada

When you ask Royce White what kind of time he's having playing basketball these last few months, you get a pretty obvious answer—he's having a great time. How could he not be? He's turned in one incredible season.
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nytimes.com May 29, 2017
One Thing LeBron James Can’t Win: A Comparison With Michael Jordan

Before supplanting Michael Jordan as the N.B.A.’s career playoff scoring leader while cementing an extraordinary seventh straight trip to the league finals, LeBron James pleaded for comparative restraint, for a focus on the here (Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant) and now (Game 1, Thursday night).
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theringer.com May 24, 2017
Lauri Markkanen Could Be the Latest Game-Changing Stretch 5

Players like Lauri Markkanen are no longer on the cutting edge. Back in 2006, when NBA teams were looking everywhere for the next Dirk Nowitzki, Andrea Bargnani was taken no. 1 overall. Sweet-shooting 7-footers were all the rage in those days, but the bloom has come off the rose in recent years.
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theringer.com May 22, 2017
Trusting Pop’s Process

We still don’t have a way of properly appreciating the Spurs, because what they’re really good at can’t be measured in championships (even though they have a bunch of those too).
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grantland.com April 24, 2015
The Rise and Rise (and Rise) of Stephen Curry: The Wildly Miraculous and Quietly Inevitable Success of Golden State’s Point Guard

There are slideshows on the Internet of the house, stately and fountained, where Stephen Curry lived as a boy — the house his parents built in 1996, the year Steph turned 8, on a 16-acre plot a few minutes’ drive from the center of Charlotte, North Carolina. It’s a big house, six bedrooms.
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slate.com December 6, 2016
Basketball’s Nerd King

Reprinted from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds. Copyright © 2017 by Michael Lewis. With permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved
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theringer.com March 9, 2017
50 Shades of Westbrook

The most amazing athlete in the NBA? The biggest ball hog in history? Oklahoma City’s triple-double machine could be both.The most exciting play in basketball somehow happens five times a game.
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si.com April 17, 2017
Nico Mannion: Peek into life of basketball prodigy

He’s an Instagram phenomenon who fascinates college coaches—but he’s not quite a sure thing. He’s also a high school freshman trying to navigate the awkward phases and social mysteries that come with being a teenager. Meet Nico Mannion, a 15-year-old (sorta-maybe) basketball prodigy
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grantland.com January 23, 2015
2015 NBA Trade Value, Part 1

Reason no. 228 why I love writing the just-about-annual “Who Has The Highest Trade Value In The NBA?” column: Derrick Rose, January 23, 2015.
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espn.com April 5, 2017
Zach Lowe: NBA watching The Basketball Tournament's innovative approach to crunch time

If fans remember Oklahoma City's improbable comeback in Orlando last Wednesday, it will be as the capstone of Russell Westbrook's wild, screaming, relentless MVP case.
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grantland.com August 30, 2013
The Unfortunate Tale of T-Mac

As the summer passed, everything I witnessed during the 2013 NBA Finals blurred into one colorful, eclectic memory. Tony Parker chewing up 23.999997 seconds of the shot clock before clinching Game 1 with an outrageous leaner.
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grantland.com April 4, 2014
Fixing the NBA Playoffs

I didn’t write an NBA Bag on Thursday because I knew David Letterman was stepping down. I wrote an NBA Bag because I’ve been doing mailbags ever since I started writing this column in 1997 … and only because I loved Letterman’s “Viewer Mail” gimmick.
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theringer.com April 14, 2017
The Greatest, Best, and Most Historic NBA MVP Column Ever

Russ? Harden? Kawhi? LeBron? Bill Simmons makes his Most Valuable Player pick. It’s historic.On Sunday afternoon, I was watching my daughter play soccer in Parts Unknown, California, right as Sergio Garcia was stealing the Masters from Justin Rose.
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fivethirtyeight.com December 3, 2015
Stephen Curry Is The Revolution

Before this year’s NBA season started, I had a conversation with a Golden State Warriors fan. He was excited about his team and was keen to explain its success: It was perfectly balanced, with perfect chemistry, role players, coaching and management.
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grantland.com August 6, 2015
The End of the Hoop Dream: A Journey to the Extreme Fringe of International Basketball

Fueled by desperation and long-shot hopes, a twentysomething huckster agent leads 10 end-of-the-line players on a European exposure tour. It could be their final chance at basketball glory, but will anyone buy what he’s selling? Jon Solomon has the same birthday as Michael Jordan.
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grantland.com June 18, 2014
24 Lingering Questions From the NBA Finals

Leave it to the San Antonio Spurs. Just one day after celebrating one of the most emotional title clinchers in NBA history, the “Ozymandias” episode of the Duncan-Pop era was rendered irrelevant by America’s first World Cup game.
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espn.com May 19, 2017
LeBron's bizarre, rim-rattling struggles from the line

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's May 29 Issue. Subscribe today! LeBron James shouldn't be shooting this free throw.
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fivethirtyeight.com May 19, 2017
The Beautiful Chaos Of The Warriors’ Offense

The checklist of things a defense has to do from one play to the next in order to stall the Warriors’ offense — arguably the best in basketball history — is exhaustive.
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sbnation.com June 3, 2014
All is lost

In order to respond, I requested that you also write me a poem about the eventual fate of the NBA. Over 600 of you were kind enough to weigh in. There was no consensus, really, but the most popular answer was, "it will end with societal collapse."
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wired.com October 28, 2014
One Man’s Quest to Track Every NBA Shot Remade Basketball

Editor’s note: With the start of Olympic basketball medal rounds, WIRED is reprising this feature about how Kirk Goldsberry’s obsession with basketball with statistics is changing pro hoops. As a kid, Kirk Goldsberry was a rabid basketball fan.
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theringer.com February 17, 2017
The Trade Deadline Mailbag

Is Nikola Jokic a basketball unicorn? Should Paul George be traded immediately? What would it take to get Anthony Davis out of New Orleans? Plus, 27 more deals from the Picasso of the Trade Machine.The NBA trade deadline is Thursday. I repeat: THE NBA TRADE DEADLINE IS THURSDAY.
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nytimes.com October 26, 2016
I Was Never Jackie Chan, and I’m Not Jeremy Lin

For a long time, playing pickup basketball as an Asian-American guy involved the considerable likelihood that someone would call you Yao Ming. Yao is Asian. You’re Asian. That was the joke.
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bleacherreport.com May 16, 2017
The Night That Cost Bryce Dejean-Jones His NBA Dream—And His Life

It might have been a second, or a millisecond, or a milli of a millisecond. Even were it the absolute slightest measure of time, Bryce Dejean-Jones had an opportunity to turn around.
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mag.bleacherreport.com February 8, 2017
Thon Maker Is the Bucks' Secret Unicorn

The Bucks are trying to build Maker's muscle mass, but gradually. He's gained about 10 pounds since the summer to bring him up to 215. Eventually, perhaps, he will settle into the 230-240 range—Garnett's playing weight for much of his career—but that could be years away.
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espn.com May 15, 2017
How Lonzo and LaVar Ball figured out how to get : and keep : our attention

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's May 29 issue. Subscribe today! It has been, what, six months since the world met LaVar Ball and his brood of big ballers?
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grantland.com April 17, 2015
Welcome to the 2015 Sports Guy Mailbag Reunion Tour

But first, it’s a Grantland Basketball Hour alert! On the heels of last night’s “Hardcore Playoff Preview” with me, Jalen Rose and Zach Lowe …
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theringer.com May 17, 2017
The Problem With the Draymond Prototype

Draft season is here, meaning teams will scramble to find their own version of the Warriors’ do-it-all forward. But finding a Green replica is more complicated than it seems.Mock draft season is now officially here, with the Boston Celtics winning the NBA draft lottery on Tuesday night.
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grantland.com June 25, 2014
The Ultimate Crapshoot

How crazy is the NBA draft? Just look at what would happen if we redid the top picks from the past 19 years. First things first — I love the 2014 NBA draft.
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grantland.com February 18, 2014
The Worst Contracts in the NBA

The Sports Guy is no Joe Dumars, but he knows a thing or two about awful deals — these are the 30 most abysmal in the league B ad deals are inescapable in sports and pop culture.
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nytimes.com January 1, 2016
Why Basketball Won’t Leave Phil Jackson Alone

In the absence of data, they are happy to speculate. The first time I met Jackson, at the end of April, rumor had it that he might become the coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. (Cleveland hired Mike Brown instead.
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grantland.com March 5, 2014
NBA Bag: 10 Steps to Tanking Perfection

Editor’s note: Every Wednesday from now until the final day of the regular season (April 16), I am cranking out an all-NBA mailbag for the Triangle with a 5,000-word limit. As always, these are actual emails from actual readers. We’re tackling only one this week.
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theringer.com March 22, 2017
The Continuing D’Angelo Russell Experiment

After the Lakers lost to the Cavaliers on Sunday, a transcript passed around to media said that LeBron James had labeled D’Angelo Russell “a special player.” Russell had scored a career-high 40 points with six assists, so it seemed appropriate.
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si.com January 25, 2016
Zinger! Kristaps Porzingis is silencing doubters and taking over New York

This story appears in the Jan. 25, 2016, issue of Sports Illustrated. To subscribe, click here. Kristaps Porzingis sits in stages, folding his 7'3" frame into a leather chair, collapsing his legs under a coffee table, squeezing his elbows inside an arm rest.
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theringer.com December 6, 2016
The Lakers Love Basketball

A month with Luke Walton and the youthful, fast-paced, fun-as-hell Lakers, who are getting along, winning games, and waking up after the Kobe eraMuch of what you need to know about the Lakers — these Lakers, now mercifully absent Kobe’s interminable farewell tour and free of Byron Scott’s
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grantland.com July 11, 2014
God Loves Cleveland

Yeah, I read LeBron James’s classy letter in Sports Illustrated. I believe him. I think he wanted to come home. I think he always wanted to come home. In the summer of 2010, LeBron handled everything wrong. He knows that now. His hometown turned on him. His former owner excoriated him.
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nytimes.com April 14, 2016
Jerry Tarkanian and Walter Byers: Adversaries Who Left Mark on N.C.A.A.

This weekend, The New York Times Magazine will publish its annual “The Lives They Lived” issue, which recalls notable people who died in 2015.
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theringer.com December 19, 2016
Lessons From the Pick-and-Roll Masters

The two-man game has long been the bedrock of NBA offenses, but its use is at an all-time high. Some of the best in the business explain the ins and outs of basketball’s most fundamental play.
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theringer.com April 17, 2017
Ten Takeaways From the First Weekend of the NBA Playoffs

Imagine if points scored didn’t determine the winner of a basketball game. Instead, imagine the victor was chosen by a panel of judges that assigned points to each team for every action that occurred on the court — much like a gymnastics meet is decided.
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slate.com May 20, 2016
Zach Lowe Is America’s Best Sports Writer

The morning after the Oklahoma City Thunder stunned the best team in NBA history, ESPN’s Zach Lowe tried to solve the puzzle of the Western Conference Finals.
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nytimes.com January 1, 2015
Teams Turn to a Face Reader, Looking for That Winning Smile

MILWAUKEE — When two financiers purchased the Milwaukee Bucks for $550 million last April, they promised to pour not only money and new management into the moribund franchise, but also the same kind of creative and critical thinking that had helped make them hedge fund billionaires.
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espn.com January 26, 2017
Who is the bigger problem : DeMarcus Cousins or the Kings?

A white towel clings like Saran Wrap to DeMarcus Cousins' nearly 300-pound body as he makes his way from the shower into the Kings' locker room. It's an hour after the final buzzer, and most of his teammates have long vacated the arc of wood-paneled lockers.
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chicagotribune.com March 5, 2016
Routine of 3-pointer dulls the senses, and makes basketball duller

Let's start with the truth. The 3-point shot was created for people who couldn't play basketball. It was made for people who couldn't grow tall enough, dribble well enough, drive hard enough or move fast enough. It was for the last kid picked on the playground.
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grantland.com July 31, 2014
The Mecca in Decline

Why doesn’t New York City produce elite NBA talent like it used to?
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wsj.com April 6, 2016
The Golden State Warriors Have Revolutionized Basketball

OAKLAND, Calif.—On every NBA court, about 24 feet from the basket, there is a thin stripe of colored paint. The flat-sided semicircle it forms is the boundary between shots that count for two points and shots that are worth three.
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theplayerstribune.com March 21, 2015
Life After Basketball

I’m retiring. I heard someone once say there comes a day when they tell us all that we can’t play anymore. We’re not good enough. Surplus to requirements. Too slow, maybe.
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si.com February 13, 2017
The Man Who Helped Make Pop... And Me

The list was taped to the wall in a dark corner of an old college gymnasium, the kind with a running track overhanging the corners of the playing surface.
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grantland.com June 16, 2015
The Good and Bad of the LeBron Juggernaut

When you see something you’ve never seen before, it can be hard to digest and understand at a basic level.
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newyorker.com May 11, 2009
How David Beats Goliath

When Vivek Ranadivé decided to coach his daughter Anjali’s basketball team, he settled on two principles. The first was that he would never raise his voice. This was National Junior Basketball—the Little League of basketball.
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espn.com February 10, 2017
Ten (12) things I like and don't like, including the streaking Miami Heat

Enough with how this crazy streak is "bad" for Miami -- how the Heat would have been better off tanking for a top-three draft pick. Are we incapable of fun? Are we all NBA technocrats now, all the time? This is awesome. This is literally the most improbable prolonged winning streak in NBA history.
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theringer.com September 14, 2016
What Rule Changes Might Be on the NBA’s Horizon?

In professional sports, it’s all too convenient to view coaches and managers as fleshy, self-contained strongholds for antiquated ideas about the sport they’ve dedicated their lives to teaching. For some, MLB may never escape the war on fun.
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espn.com March 17, 2017
Ten things I like and don't like, including Kyrie's bank artistry

It's Friday, and that means it's time for our weekly run through the NBA.
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businessinsider.com November 12, 2015
Stephen Curry has replaced LeBron James as the best basketball player in the world

Move over, LeBron James: You are no longer the best basketball player on the planet. LeBron has passed the torch, and what is amazing is whom the torch was passed to and how convincing the move has been.
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nytimes.com February 12, 2017
The Misunderstood Genius of Russell Westbrook

In Philadelphia, before the first game of the N.B.A. season, Russell Westbrook worked through his warm-up routine. He was loose and laughing but — as always — precise.
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theringer.com February 27, 2017
Trending Up, Trending Down: Five Takeaways From Pelicans-Thunder

Both Oklahoma City and New Orleans made significant moves before the trade deadline, but while the Thunder appear to have found a new groove, the Pelicans are now staring at three straight losses since their franchise-altering dealWith a 118–110 loss to the Thunder on Sunday, the Pelicans moved to
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theundefeated.com October 25, 2016
Where are all the white American NBA players?

J.J. Redick will be entering his 11th season in the NBA this week and for the first time he has noticed he is part of a small — and shrinking — club as a white American NBA player. The NBA certainly has its long list of European players.
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si.com November 23, 2015
After decades of defeat, Caltech finds formula for winning in conference

Picture a solitary figure, shooting baskets and muttering. The man is pale and skinny, with round glasses and wispy brown hair. Looks fortyish, like he should be teaching calculus.
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theplayerstribune.com November 1, 2016
Letter to My Younger Self

The Players’ Tribune has partnered with Chase for a special edition of “Letter to My Younger Self,” a series where athletes reflect on their biggest lessons learned, from finance to relationships and careers. When you get off the school bus tomorrow, you’re going to be in a whole new world.
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theringer.com November 22, 2016
The Crossroads of Hoosier Hysteria

Examining Indiana’s relationship with the sport it loves—20 years after its high school basketball went to a class system“Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.
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theplayerstribune.com May 19, 2017
“I Can’t Feel My Body”

The first time I was paralyzed was during a pickup game. This wasn’t an ordinary pickup game. Some Longhorn football players were playing against a few of the guys on the basketball team.
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grantland.com May 1, 2015
The Saturday Decision

During Eddie Murphy’s first SNL season, Joe Piscopo started appearing on “Weekend Update” as a goofy sports anchor who shouted the big stories in exclamation points. Saturday would have been perfect for him.
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theringer.com April 7, 2017
Khris Middleton Is Secretly One of the Best Players in the NBA; Watch Him Prove It in the Playoffs

The Bucks started winning as soon as Khris Middleton started playing. When Middleton returned on February 8 from a torn hamstring that had kept him out for the first three months of the season, Milwaukee was in 10th place in the Eastern Conference with a 22–28 record.
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grantland.com September 9, 2014
The Definitive NBA Court Design Power Rankings

Welcome to what might become an annual tradition in these parts: using the doldrums of August and September to evaluate one of those bits of style that define the sensory experience of the NBA.
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nytimes.com October 11, 2016
He Said He Was 17, but High School Basketball Player May Be Closer to 30

The student, Jonathan Nicola, who is 6 foot 9 and wears size 16 shoes, had been attending Catholic Central High School in Windsor, Ontario, as an 11th grader for the past six months after arriving on a student visa, The Windsor Star reported.
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nytimes.com April 5, 2016
Villanova Wins N.C.A.A. Championship on Last-Second Shot

HOUSTON — They run the play so often in practice that Villanova Coach Jay Wright hardly needed to draw it up in the huddle. It is instantly recognizable by a simple name: Nova.
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thestacks.deadspin.com April 27, 2017
The End Of Pete Maravich, A Prisoner Of His Own Skills

This article originally appeared in the premiere issue of Inside Sports (April, 1980) and appears here with permission from the author’s estate.
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theringer.com December 21, 2016
Battle of the Unicorns

Kristaps Porzingis, Joel Embiid, and Giannis Antetokounmpo are dominant, jaw-dropping, once-in-a-generation talents — and they’re still under 23.
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grantland.com August 8, 2014
Kevin Love: Overrated, Underrated, or Properly Rated?

How did Kevin Love become part of LeBron’s “I’m Coming Home” package to Cleveland even before that signing went down? LeBron passes 40,000 career minutes during the seventh minute of opening night in October, that’s how.
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espn.com November 19, 2016
How the NBA's biggest bromance blew up

IN A LOW-SLUNG building in Oklahoma City's Bricktown neighborhood, just a day before the injury-riddled Mavericks began their playoff series against a Thunder team that would dismiss them in five games, a surreal scene unfolded at the Dollhouse Lounge, a burlesque-themed nightclub.
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theringer.com April 5, 2017
Oscar Robertson’s Triple-Doubles Look Nothing Like Russell Westbrook’s

Russell Westbrook has accomplished something that nobody has since 1962, and when a sports thing happens for the first time in a few decades, we’re often reminded about what has changed in the world since the last time.
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grantland.com October 22, 2014
The Holy Hand of Brazil

The greatest player to have never played in the NBA? It’s a peculiar distinction. He’s a mystery, this man. Willingly, he kept his talent away from us. Those who saw him play happily share their stories in awed tones. Those who merely caught flashes treasure the brilliance all the more.
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newyorker.com March 14, 2016
How the Jump Shot Brought Individualism to Basketball

One of the great Internet finds of last year—for basketball fans, anyway—was Brandon Armstrong’s YouTube channel.
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theringer.com December 13, 2016
Let Me See Some Footwork

It takes years to master and countless hours of practice, but footwork can be the difference between “good” and “great” in the NBA. Giannis, DeMar, coaches, and trainers talk about the art and science of this fundamental basketball skill.
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grantland.com February 26, 2015
Moneyball II: Charles Barkley, the Sports Media, and the Second Statistical War

When Charles Barkley sank his teeth into analytics this month on Inside the NBA, you could almost hear the whole Internet groan.
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