Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
[Originally published on Hoopsworld, 30th September 2013.] The new Collective Bargaining Agreement is designed to save teams from themselves, and make reckless spending far harder to do. It works – most free agency contracts are now, frankly, well priced. But not all of them. After taking a look…
Happy? You should be. Keith Bogans has an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time. He has become throughout his NBA career the archetypal three-and-D wing role player, the kind of piece you want around star point guards or big men (or both),…
Nothing cheers me up more than heavily contrived and extremely implausible hypothetical transactions for the Chicago Bulls. 1 Taking a team's cap situation, and attempting to maximize the basketball assets that they can get from using it, is what I wish to spend my life doing. It is…
In my season preview of the Orlando Magic , written back in October and located here , I wrote something that looks a bit stupid in hindsight. At this point, I'd quite like to try and weasel my way out most of it. The following are some quotes…