Good morning. The West playoff race is tighter than John Stockton's shorts. The East has a fun race, too. And the West play-in battle is super depressing and will result in fans in three NBA cities having nubs for teeth by mid-April. Let's basketball. In the
Good morning. Memphis, on track to make the NBA playoffs in the tough Western Conference, fired their coach with nine games remaining. What are they thinking? Plus, we have reaction from a spicy weekend of NBA action. Let's basketball. On Friday, the Memphis Grizzlies pulled off something that
Good morning. The Bulls and Lakers present us with perhaps the most unglued 12.6 seconds to end an NBA game in memory. Oh, and the Pacers scored 162 in regulation. Let's basketball. Comments Are Back Whoops! I forgot to turn comments on before Thursday's newsletter.
After an eventful day, LeBron tips in a Lakers win. Welcome to the New GMIB, Same as the Old GMIB This should be the first issue of GMIB you are receiving via our new platform, Ghost. If you read the newsletter via email and you received this, we're
PLUS: news about the newsletter, the salary cap and Dame Lillard. Cap Goin’ Up On a Tuesday The NBA announced new salary cap growth projections on Tuesday; as expected, the cap is increasing 10%, the maximum possible under the current collective bargaining agreement. This is largely due to the NBA’
No. Oh no. The humanity! It’s prediction review time! Back in October I made 13 bold predictions about this season. They proved too bold. Let’s jump in. There will be a three-way race for the No. 1 seed in the West this season: the Phoenix Suns, the Memphis
Good morning. Let’s basketball. Final Moments of the Liberator; Antonio Herrera Toro; 1883 Scores Heat 95, Knicks 116 — New York had an absolutely dreadful first quarter on offense — “they really miss Jalen Brunson,” he screams from the rooftops — so Karl-Anthony Towns went on an individual 15-0 run over three
Daily notes on the profound and profane in the NBA.
PLUS: lots of highlights from a busy NBA weekend.
And the Bulls are invincible in 10th place!
Maybe. Or maybe the Blazers are now all even on the ledger of Tank Karma.
It's all a too-cool-for-school attitude, or a hyperfocus on two teams, or yelling. So much yelling.
PLUS: The Lakers are off to a bad start without LeBron, the Suns need to actually win some games and more.
Cleveland, Boston and OKC are heads above everyone else.
Explaining why I really don't like Golden State these days.
It's not who you think! Unless you watched Blazers-Celtics, I guess.
The Mavericks shortened their runway with the Luka trade. The cliff is coming up quicker than ever.
This is to say that there is still a *lot* at stake.
So did the Clippers, for the record.
Stephen Curry is fading just slightly, but maybe there's still enough for another magical run.