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Evan Mobley has been great all season, but he’s been outplayed by Scottie Barnes for Rookie of the Year

The NBA Rookie of the Year vote has gotten even more complicated. Yesterday, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Evan Mobley sprained his left ankle and is out for the next three games. This comes at an especially difficult time for the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have lost four of their last five games and have not… […]

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The Cavs have again swept up the ashes left by LeBron’s departure, and built something impressive

They did it again, damn it. The Cleveland Cavaliers have somehow avoided the hellish purgatory typically levied against small-market teams in between superstar stints. The first time LeBron James left, after an initial seven-year stretch with Cleveland, it only took four seasons and four top-four Lottery picks in a… Read more…

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Jaylen Brown injury speaks to the fragility of Boston’s makeup

I almost wrote about the Celtics on Tuesday because I heard about these projections that had them with heavy title odds , but when I went to FiveThirtyEight to try to find them, it felt like I was trying to decipher binary code. So We held off to wait to see if anything came of […]

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Cleveland has hope — and a pretty good basketball team

If there was a way to slyly tell you that Cleveland has the second best scoring defense in the NBA behind the Warriors, I would do that. But me doing the whole, “I bet you couldn’t guess who the second best scoring defense in the league is” bit isn’t clever, because Cleveland is in the […]

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How did the Houston Rockets not take back Jarrett Allen in the James Harden deal?

As soon as Kenny Atkinson parted ways with the Brooklyn Nets on March 7 of last year, Jarrett Allen lost his starting spot to DeAndre Jordan. The move only lasted for two games because days later, we were amid a country-wide shutdown. But it also crystalized Allen’s standing with Brooklyn, which carried over into this… […]

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NBA Daily Fantasy: Is Julius Randle a sure thing? And is it time to bet on Darius Garland?

Hopefully you have enough money left over for your daily fantasy ventures after your hefty Dogecoin investment yesterday. Hold on to that like you should to potential future All-Star Julius Randle, who opens our 10-game slate of picks to end the work week. Read more…