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Motown Leads the East — and It Looks Legit. What’s Goin' On?

My Early Rankings of 3 Top NBA Prospects — AJ Dybantsa, Cameron Boozer, and Caleb Wilson

8 NBA Rookies Crushing It — and 5 Lottery Picks Who Aren’t

How Are the Phoenix Suns *THIS* Good — and What Happens Now?

The Mavs' Absolute Best Path Out of Purgatory — Perspective from a Former Mavs Analytics Staffer

Power Grabs that Brought Down the Dallas Mavericks: Lessons from the Nico Harrison–Luka Dončić Fiasco

8 Young Players Who Are Killing It, According to Advanced Stats

10 Takes: NBA's Latest Betting Scandals

NBA Predictions: 20 Bold Forecasts (with Vegas odds) — Plus New Over/Under Picks

My Predictions for All 15 West Teams — Based on Advanced Stats and a Strategy That Beats Vegas

My Predictions for All 15 East Teams — Based on Advanced Stats and a Strategy That Beats Vegas

17 Takes: The NBA's Clippers–Kawhi Saga

10 NBA Players Under 25 Who Will Make the Biggest Impact Over the Next Decade

Is Kevin Garnett the GOAT of the Last 30 Years — or Just the Best Defensive Player?

Who Will Rule the NBA? Ranking the Top 15 Franchises of the Next Decade

Nate Silver's FUTURE OF THE FRANCHISE Rankings — Here's How I Voted on All 30 NBA Teams

Introducing Adjusted Plus-Minus for College Basketball

Stock Up/Stock Down: Updated Top 30 NBA Rookies after Summer League

Good Money, Bad Contracts: Six New Deals NBA Teams Will Regret for Years

Rookies at Summer League: Who’s Thriving, Who’s Struggling, and Who’s a Mess So Far

The Market Is Underrating These Five NBA Teams — And the Data Backs It Up

Advanced Stats Are Betting Against These Five NBA Teams — Here’s Why

When LeBron & Giannis Hit the Trade Market, These Teams Should Be First in Line

The 5 Worst NBA Free Agent Moves So Far — What Were They Thinking?

The 10 Smartest NBA Free Agent Moves So Far

Winners! Losers! Breaking Down the Biggest Trades and Picks in the 2025 NBA Draft

The Most Baffling Picks of the 2025 NBA Draft

Jeremias Engelmann’s NBA Draft Guide: Deep Dives on Top Prospects, from Future Stars to Risky Picks

FINAL NBA Draft Big Board: Why Ace Bailey Is Slipping — and Who's Rising

🚩 Before You Draft Ace Bailey: The Red Flags NBA Teams Can’t Ignore

Why Kevin Durant Is Overrated — Yet These 3 Teams Should Trade for Him Anyway

My 2025 NBA Mock Draft: All 30 First-Round Picks, Plus Potential Trades

The Case Against Tre Johnson: Why He Could Be This Draft’s Biggest Bust

Perfect Fits: Where Every NBA Lottery Pick *SHOULD* Go

Upside Rankings: How I See the Top 30 NBA Draft Prospects and Their Potential

5 Genius Moves That Made OKC Title Favorites — And 1 That Could Cost Them

First-Round Prospects Are Skipping the Draft for NIL Dollars — Here's How the NBA Can Fix the Problem

The Mavs Almost Traded for Tyrese Haliburton — Here’s Why, and Why It Didn't Work

Alex Caruso Might Be the Greatest Inch-for-Inch Defender in NBA History

3 NBA Prospects Who Could Haunt the Teams That Don’t Draft Them

​Why Boston Should Trade Jaylen Brown

The Cooper Flagg Problem in Dallas — And How I’d Fix It as a Former Mavs Analyst

My NBA Mock Draft: The Player Each Lottery Team Should Pick — and Why

Flagg Day: Best, Worst & Most Likely Outcomes for 14 NBA Lottery Teams

My 2025 NBA Draft Big Board: The Top 30 Prospects, Ranked

Luka Dončić Is Now the Lakers' Savior — And Their Problem

Six Potential Trades for Giannis Antetokounmpo

Don't Waste a Lottery Pick on the Next Corey Kispert or Patrick Williams — My evaluation of 4 highly rated NBA draft prospects

Lakers, Knicks, Rockets, or Nuggets: Who's in the Biggest Trouble?

Who Steps Up MOST When the NBA Playoffs Get Tough? — Advanced stats highlight 7 players who deliver when it counts

Overrated NBA Lottery Guards? Pros & Cons of 3 Top Prospects

Luka and the Lakers Aren’t Proving Nico and the Mavs Wrong — Yet

Best Path to the NBA Finals for 11 West Contenders — and the Playoff Matchups Each Team Should Want (and Avoid)

Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey: Truly Top-3 NBA Prospects? — What their stats and game film reveal

The Best NBA Free Agents to Target — Backed by Advanced Stats

The NBA's 2025 All-Fluff Team

The Smartest Move in the NBA? Steal OKC's Player Development Staff Now

Draymond Green Is My Defensive Player of the Year — Plus, the NBA Has a Big Play-in Problem

12 Takes on the Final 3 Weeks of the NBA Season — What We're Looking For

Jeremias Engelmann & Nate Duncan Talk NBA

The Suns Have One of the Bleakest Futures of All Time — Here Are Their Only Escape Routes

The Next Draymond Green? And Is V.J. Edgecombe Overrated?

What the Heck Can the Mavs Do Now? Advice from an Ex-Mavs Analytics Staffer

How One NBA Player Is Breaking Vegas

The Quagmires: Players Who Can Destroy an NBA Team and Its Future

Forecasting the NBA West: Projections for 11 Playoff Contenders — Based on Advanced Stats

How NOT to Be a GM: Seven Epic Blunders and Long-Term Mistakes from the NBA’s Worst Chess Players

Who's Getting Cooper Flagg? See the Odds and Projected Draft Picks for 15 Potential NBA Lottery Teams

How the Pistons Became the NBA's Best Story [FREE]

The 7 Best NBA Players You've Never Heard Of

Three Future NBA Point Guards — a Dazzling Ball-Handler, a 6’9” Russian, and My Favorite — and a Lottery Pick I Would Never Draft

Ranking the East Playoff Contenders at FULL STRENGTH — Based on Advanced Stats

Ranking the West Playoff Contenders at FULL STRENGTH — Based on Advanced Stats

What Cooper Flagg Is and Is NOT — An Ex-NBA Analytics Staffer Takes a Close Look at Duke’s Top Draft Prospects

What Stats & the Eye Test Reveal: Franz Wagner, Not Paolo Banchero, Is the Magic's True Franchise Player

The Mavs Didn't Keep It Real with Luka — and They're Paying for It Now

Biggest Losers — and Four Winners — from the NBA's Blockbuster Trade Week

11 Takes on the Explosive NBA Trade Deadline

👍👎 NBA Trade Evaluations: Warriors Get 'Big Face' Lift, Lakers Just Get Bigger

The REAL Reasons Luka Got Traded — Let's Evaluate These 67 Theories

Why the Chicago Bulls Won the De’Aaron Fox Trade, and the Spurs Might Have Lost It

The Luka Dončić Trade — My Perspective as an Ex-Mavericks Analytics Staffer Who Spent Two Years Pushing to Trade Him

My Biggest All-Star Snubs — and Two All-Stars Who Absolutely Don't Belong

5 NBA Players Who Never Get Enough ❤️

How the Knicks Won Big and the Wolves Broke an Unwritten Rule of the NBA

Who Deserves an NBA All-Star Spot? Here Are Our Picks, Backed by Data

The NBA's Analytics All-Stars: Who Wins the Numbers Game?

The NBA's Biggest Surprise: How the Worst Team Became a Playoff Contender

15 Takes: What We Love and Hate about NBA Trade Season

What the Data Reveals: The NBA's Epic MVP Battle, According to Advanced Stats

Top NBA Draft Prospects, According to Advanced Stats: Which Players Excel — and Which Underperform

How Good Is Jimmy Butler, Actually? Plus, Four Trades That Work

Can't Miss: How the Cavs' Elite Shooting Makes Them Serious NBA Title Contenders

14 NBA Takes: Hopes and Fears for 2025