If the Nets didn’t play in Brooklyn, Kyrie Irving would have been able to play all season, like the other unvaccinated players in the NBA. It’s because of New York City’s vaccine mandates that Irving has not been playing, and also because the Nets decided in October that they did not want to deal with […]
Less than two hours after this piece was published, the Nets announced that Kyrie Irving has entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols, because of course he did. Read more…
Last year, between the Bubble and a season full of mandates that included no fans, or only the vaccinated ones, the NBA did a pretty good job at protecting their league against COVID-19. Read more…
Kyrie Irving ain’t walking through that door…tonight. Read more…
Yes, they’re old. Yes, we should have concerns about injuries. Sure, we don’t even know if all the players are vaccinated yet, which will matter because they’ll have to be . Read more…
One of two things — or both — are related to Paul Millsap reportedly signing with the Brooklyn Nets today. Read more…
Some important players have signed to teams late in the second or even third week of NBA free agency in recent years. It may happen more often than we even realize. Marcus Morris famously had an agreement in place with the San Antonio Spurs, and apparently was offered even more to join the Los Angeles […]
Nikola Jokić and Damian Lillard are doing exactly what they’re supposed to do. Read more…
The “treadmill of mediocrity” is a term coined by former Portland Trail Blazers GM Kevin Pritchard in 2011. It’s pro basketball limbo — being good enough to sneak into the playoffs but not good enough to win, yet not quite bad enough to earn a top-5 draft pick and select a serious game-changer. And still, […]
With the NBA Playoffs looming later this month, and due to the perceived attainability of this year’s championship, there’s a growing list of people out there who could be held accountable for coming up short. Read more…