4 days agoThe Bucks win the offseason at the buzzerIt was Dame Time in the NBA offseason. With less than a week before Media Days, the Milwaukee Bucks swung a trade for Damian Lillard, who netted a career-high in scoring last season with 32.2 points per game, who is easily a top-15 player in the league, who has hit…Bucks8 min readBucks8 min read
6 days agoTen things I *Love* (or just noticed) from Sunday’s comeback win over New OrleansHow it started: How it’s going: Week 3 felt really important. The home debut of Jordan Love, starting quarterback, was going about as terribly as one could bear to imagine, and then all of a sudden, the right things happened. …12 min read12 min read
Sep 18Underreaction Monday: Lovely start for Green Bay Packers seasonYou knew this would happen. The Green Bay Packers held a 12-point lead in the final quarter of Week 2’s undercard showdown with the Atlanta Falcons. They blew it. They lost 25–24. The defense couldn’t stop Atlanta’s dynamic backfield duo, led by Bijan Robinson who looks like a premier talent…6 min read6 min read
Sep 15Ranking the NBA’s Top 100 Players, Meta-Analysis: Trends and TidbitsWelcome to the Top 100 Players rankings afterparty. As I made the list, wrote (and wrote and wrote and wrote) about it, I kept wondering things: Who rose the most spots? Which team had the most players? How many undrafted players are on the list? Which Top 100 players changed…6 min read6 min read
Sep 15Ranking the NBA’s Top 100 Players, Part 6: Building Blocks (and Key Pieces)Welcome the final installment of my Top 100 list. I land awkwardly because I want to restrict this list to 100 players but definitely found a tier divide right around player 90. …22 min read22 min read
Sep 14Ranking the NBA’s Top 100 Players, Part 5: Tinkering With StardomOn to part five of the list. As a reminder, my logic in deciding the order boils down to: Who would be the best player in the world if everyone already ranked were wiped off the face of the Earth? …20 min read20 min read
Sep 14Ranking the NBA’s Top 100 Players, Part 4: Stars You Can RideWelcome to part four, stars you can ride. Guys in this tier can carry a team through stretches of regular season games, but don’t make sense as franchise number ones, either due to age, ceiling, or not hitting that potential just yet. …23 min read23 min read
Sep 13Ranking the NBA’s Top 100 Players, Part 3: Stars You Should Win WithOutside the inner circle of NBA superstars lies this tier of players, who can reliably get you a playoff spot with any reasonable supporting cast. Almost every player here has been on the inner-circle, could get there, or seemed poised to at one point. But the NBA is a difficult…31 min read31 min read
Sep 13Ranking the NBA’s Top 100 Players, Part 2: Players Who Can Win You a TitleThe players at this part of the list are the inner-circle. These are the coveted franchise guys. These are the MVP candidates. These are the guys who if, by some witchcraft, they woke up in Charlotte tomorrow, would have the Hornets contending for the top seed in the East. By…14 min read14 min read
Sep 12Ranking the NBA’s Top 100 Players, Part 1: The Best Player in the WorldLast year I decided to rank the best 100 players in the NBA. This year I’m doing it again. It’s a lot of work and thought, and seeing “77 min read” on Medium was a bit jarring, and a bit of a downer considering it took me many times that…13 min read13 min read
