After an injury-plagued season, the Warriors will hold one of the best picks in the 2020 NBA Draft. What could they get if they decide to trade it? Even before the season was suspended, the 2019-20 version of the Golden State Warriors was not coming close to living up to the standard the team set
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The Lakers are one of the NBA’s oldest and winningest franchises. Along the way, their rosters have featured some strange characters you probably forgot about. The Lakers are a well-decorated franchise. They arrived in Southern California with five titles. They have won eleven more in the shadow of the Hollywood sign. They are, for lack
The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. A hypothetical conclusion to the 2019-20 season is still way off in the distance and memories of the actual regular season have already started to fade during this
We don’t know when the season will return, but since we’ve got time to kill, here are the questions that would define a 2020 NBA Finals matchup between the Milwaukee Bucks and LA Clippers. Before coronavirus interrupted the NBA season and all of our lives, there seemed to be a fairly clear separation at the
Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images It’s fun to debate who the top NBA players drafted in the 2010s are. But who are the best draft prospects of the last decade? A fun game that’s thrown around from time to time on NBA Draft Twitter is to debate the merits of the top prospects of the
With the NBA planning a players-only NBA 2K tournament for Friday that will be broadcast live, which player should your favorite team send to compete? NBA basketball may not be gracing our TV screens these days, but the league is doing everything it can to satisfy our cravings. The Phoenix Suns have already been promoting
We don’t know when the season will return, but since we’ve got time to kill, here are the questions that would define a 2020 NBA Finals matchup between the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers. Before coronavirus interrupted the NBA season and all of our lives, there seemed to be a fairly clear separation at
LaMelo Ball might be one of the most well-known names in this NBA Draft class but his game is a black box. What can he offer an NBA team? LaMelo Ball has had one of the more adventurous prospect journeys ever, a prep career than went from scoring 92 points in a game and winning
Even if the NBA regular season is canceled, we’ve seen enough to start assessing the first seasons of notable rookies. What did the Philadelphia 76ers see from Matisse Thybulle? By counting stats, it was a modest rookie season for Matisse Thybulle — 4.7 points, 1.5 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 1.7 steals per game in just
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – MARCH 06: Marcus Smart #36 of the Boston Celtics looks on during the third quarter of the game against the Utah Jazz at TD Garden on March 06, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 4: James L. Dolan, Executive Chairman and CEO, The Madison Square Garden Company & NBA Governor, watches an NBA basketball game between the Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks on February 4, 2018 at Madison Square Garden Center in New York City. Hawks won 99-96. NOTE TO USER: User expressly
On his latest podcast, Shaquille O’Neal distanced himself from Joe Exotic after making a cameo on the Netflix sensation ‘Tiger King.’ It’s hard to miss a guy like Shaquille O’Neal. Aside from his infectious, fun-loving personality and his 7-foot-1, 300-pound frame, Shaq is also a globally well known figure as a four-time NBA champion, 15-time
The Detroit Pistons are reportedly offering up their new performance center to health officials for whatever use they require in coronavirus relief efforts. Novel coronavirus has hit the sports industry hard in the United States, but teams are still doing all they can to combat the spread of this pandemic. According to The Athletic‘s James
AIMORES, BRAZIL – NOVEMBER 21: Jabuti (Geochelone carbonaria), a kind of turtoise found at the lands of Instituto Terra on November 21, 2019 in Aimorés, Brazil. Twenty years ago, this land was completely devastated, and now has been through a process of afforestation. Instituto Terra, founded in 1998 by the photographer Sebastiao Salgado and his
Even if the NBA regular season is canceled, we’ve seen enough to start assessing the first seasons of notable rookies. What did the Washington Wizards see from Rui Hachimura? It was a discouraging season for the Wizards, running out a high-powered offense that was continually undermined by a disastrous defense. Several young players stepped forward
The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. With each passing day, it feels more and more likely that we won’t see the final chapter of the 2019-20 NBA season for a long time, if at
Toni Kukoc watch their teammates play against the Milwaukee Bucks during the second quarter 05 December at the United Center, in Chicago, IL. Pippen has demanded that he be traded to another team following his recovery from foot surgery. AFP PHOTO/VINCENT LAFORET (Photo by VINCENT LAFORET / AFP) (Photo credit should read VINCENT LAFORET/AFP via
Even if the NBA regular season is canceled, we’ve seen enough to start assessing the first seasons of notable rookies. What did the Miami Heat get from Tyler Herro? Tyler Herro looked like a knockdown shooter in his one season at Kentucky but a loaded roster didn’t allow opportunities for him to show a whole
LeBron James dominated the Eastern Conference for almost a decade, making eight straight NBA Finals. Here are the five best teams who could never topple The King. When LeBron James joined the Miami Heat a decade ago, he and his new teammates, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh promised five or more NBA titles. They never quite
LeBron James and the Bucks are just two of the biggest unresolved storylines left by the suspension of the 2019-20 NBA season. The NBA season is suspended indefinitely, and with it, every hope, question, and expectation we might have had for it. It’s a cruel twist that one of the more compelling seasons of the
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