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As one basketball fan to another, what are you supposed to do when there are no NBA games? Well, one obvious answer is to enjoy the summer. Go outside, see friends, maybe take a vacation, but hard-core basketball fans need a sport to keep them going, and going…
It should be the most important night of their careers – and lives – up until that point. The NBA Draft is a goal that many college athletes have been working towards since they first picked up a basketball and attempted to shoot it at a hoop and…
Germany overhauled its online gambling rules five years ago, becoming one of the few European markets to tax every stake instead of operator profit. The result is a 5.3% turnover tax that quietly shapes the price of every spin, hand, and sports wager placed on a licensed…
The mainstream media has been calling it the “Underdog Super Bowl,” with others using similar names like “the Long Shot Super Bowl.” It, of course, refers to Super Bowl LX, where the New England Patriots will clash with the Seattle Seahawks in the climax of the NFL season.…
Say goodbye to the era of NBA parity. The Oklahoma City Thunder are about to kill it. Seven different teams have won each of the past seven NBA titles. One cursory look through odds at the best NBA betting sites tells you the Association will not be getting…
Photo by simonkr from istockphoto.com The 2025–26 NBA season has already delivered a dynamic mix of breakout performances, surprising early surges, and the continued dominance of established powerhouses. As teams settle into their identities and new storylines emerge, the futures market has been quick to adjust. Fans and…
The new NBA season has only just begun, but early results and offseason moves are already changing how analysts and oddsmakers view the 2025–26 championship race. Preseason favorites are being tested, new contenders are emerging, and the market is quickly adjusting to roster developments, injuries, and player performances.…
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The Basketball Manifesto is a 3,775 page, 1.2 million word-ish basketball reference book. And it is free to download. It contains reviews, strategies, ideas, opinions, and a whole lot of thoughts on stuff. This document contains reviews, strategy, assessments, ideas and plans for every NBA team and every…
Xavier Silas SG - 6'5, 198lbs - Born 22nd January 1988 Iowa Wolves Silas was in the NBA last year, called up at the end of the season by a Boston Celtics team that ran out of ball handlers at one point. There was a time when that…
Evan Smotrycz PF - 6'7, 230lbs - Born 2nd August 1991 Iowa Wolves Back in the day, there was a stretch in which Michigan decided to run the offence through Smotrycz. What a time that was. Things were different in the Michigan programme back then, and they were…
Jonathan Stark PG - 6'0, 180lbs - Born 23rd May 1995 Iowa Wolves Jonathan Stark was the Ja Morant before Ja Morant. The two briefly play together at Murray State for one season, and whereas the over-exuberant, dynamic yet wild Morant (at that time) would be the spectacular…
Hakim Warrick PF - 6'9, 219lbs - Born 8th July 1982 Iowa Wolves Warrick left the NBA six years ago, cut by the Magic at the 2013 trade deadline, and is now 36 years old. The G-League has in recent times served increasingly often as a place for…
Prince Williams PG/SG - 6'5, 200lbs - Born 22nd August 1992 Iowa Wolves Williams has been in and out of the G-League in his three professional seasons, grinding through a first season with the Greensboro Swarm after making the team through the local tryout route, being acquired and…
William Lee PF - 6'8, 210lbs - Born 10th January 1995 Iowa Wolves This was Lee's first professional season out of UAB, and it began with a summer league stint with the Memphis Grizzlies. After not getting a training camp contract from them, he initially signed in Serbia…
Marquise Moore PG/SG - 6'2, 208lbs - Born 22nd December 1994 Iowa Wolves I love four things in this world. Sausage sandwiches, the lead singer out of The Interrupters (call me, Aimee!), 6'7 point guards who can't shoot, and extremely undersized guards who rebound like centres. Here, then,…
Jaylen Johnson PF - 6'9, 230lbs - Born 7th August 1996 Iowa Wolves Declaring for the NBA Draft after his junior season at Louisville in 2017, Johnson is still young and therefore still a project. In what would have been his senior season, he received a 10-day call-up…
Darius Johnson-Odom SG - 6'1, 220lbs - Born 28th September 1989 Iowa Wolves Prior to his return this season, Johnson-Odom had been away from the G-League for four years. The vast majority of that time had been spent in Italy, where he had been amongst the country's highest…
L.G. Gill PF - 6'8, 210lbs - Born 24th December 1994 Iowa Wolves This season was Gill’s second in the G-League, one which began as a returning player with the Greensboro Swarm (whose roster he had made last season via the local tryout route) before immediately being traded…
Canyon Barry SG/SF - 6'6, 205lbs - Born 7th January 1994 Iowa Wolves The latest from the production line of Barrys is Canyon, the first in a generation to unashamedly shoot the underhand free throw. This was his first G-League season after spending his initial professional campaign split…
Tra-Deon Hollins PG - 6'2, 195lbs - Born 22nd August 1995 Fort Wayne Mad Ants Hollins returned to the Mad Ants to begin this season, having played 41 games with them in 2017/18 in his first professional season out of Omaha. Last year, he was a bench player…
Travin Thibodeaux PF/C - 6'8, 242lbs - Born 19th February 1996 Fort Wayne Mad Ants In Thibodeaux's first professional season, he added size, rebounding and some interior defence to a team that otherwise lacked for them. He was not spectacular in any area, but he was solid in…
Jared Sam PF - 6'10, 210lbs - Born 17th May 1995 Fort Wayne Mad Ants In his first three years at Southern University - and by the way, the commitment shown by the naming committee back in the formative days of that establishment is something we could all…
Ike Nwamu SG/SF - 6'5, 205lbs - Born 3rd January 1993 Fort Wayne Mad Ants Nwamu’s best skill is his dunking, and I don’t think anyone will dispute that. He is a very explosive leaper and a player who loves to finish with power at any opportunity; the…