The 2020-21 NBA season starts tomorrow! Hurray! It hasn’t even been that long since we last had basketball, but it feels like a long time. I’m going to be watching basketball all week (The Christmas day games will definitely be playing while we are at my Grandma’s). So these are my preseason power rankings. IContinue reading “2021 NBA Power Rankings (12/21/20)”
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Rudy Gobert’s New Deal/Who Deserves a Supermax? (12/20/20)
Rudy Gobert just got a big-time bag. 5 years, $205 million. That’s the largest contract ever for a big man. Did he deserve it? No! Rudy Gobert is an overappreciated player. He’s the fifth best center in the NBA going into the season (behind Jokic, Embiid, KAT, and Bam), and he could fall lower thanContinue reading “Rudy Gobert’s New Deal/Who Deserves a Supermax? (12/20/20)”
Predicting the Top 100 NBA Players of 2021 (12/17/20)
I’ve constructed top 100 lists before, but never prediction ones. There’s added difficulty to deciding which players will be the best next season. But I think my list turned out better than ESPN’s (DeRozan at 82 really got me). While making this list, I considered four things: stats (of course), eye test (also important), teamContinue reading “Predicting the Top 100 NBA Players of 2021 (12/17/20)”
The Underappreciation of Bradley Beal (12/16/20)
Let me start off with the difference between underrated and underappreciated. Underrated means someone is really good, but no one recognizes it, and that player needs to be more recognized. Underappreciated is when someone is recognized, but that’s it. They’re not actually appreciated for what they do, even though everyone acknowledges it. Since I’m writingContinue reading “The Underappreciation of Bradley Beal (12/16/20)”
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