Category: nba
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Playoff Julius Randle has been on a Tear
For only the 3rd time in Franchise history, the Minnesota Timberwolves have reached the Western Conference Finals, a feat that seemed unlikely throughout the vast majority of the 2024-25 regular season. Throughout this time, the Timberwolves looked disjointed, struggling with spacing issues all year, and limped through much of the…
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How to Ruin an NBA Finals Team
9 months ago, the Dallas Mavericks were on top of the world. Fresh off of a 5 game thriller over the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Dallas Mavericks had finally managed to return to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2011. Led by rising superstar Luka Doncic and the mercurial…
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Jaden McDaniels is Beginning to Shine.
Since the turn of the new year, the Minnesota Timberwolves have been a rather average NBA organisation, holding a record of 16-14 in the calendar year, however, the team has missed significant pieces during this time span. For example, both members of the KAT trade package, namely Julius Randle and…
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The Detroit Pistons are finally on the Rise.
In terms of NBA Surprises for the 2024-25 Season, there are a handful to choose from. The downfall of the Philadelphia 76ers could be one, as, at the time of writing, the Sixers are sat with a 20-38 record, with only the Wizards, Raptors and Hornets holding worse records in…
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Karl-Anthony Towns is Finally Getting his Flowers
One of the biggest offseason moves of 2024 happened only one week out of training camp, an unusual time for such a big acquisition to occur. On the morning of the 28th September (BST), the New York Knicks finally acquired their most coveted player. Karl-Anthony Towns, four time all star,…
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Franz Wagner: Germany’s Next All-Star
The Orlando Magic have undergone one of the fastest rebuilds in the NBA over the last few years, and currently, sit at 12-7, holding 3rd in the Eastern Conference, behind only the red-hot Cleveland Cavaliers, with only one loss on their resume, and the reigning NBA Champion and powerhouse Boston…
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The Minnesota Timberwolves have a Problem.
with a record of 2 wins and 2 losses, with wins against the new look Sacramento Kings and the Toronto Raptors, whilst losing to the JJ Redick led Los Angeles Lakers and their WCF enemy, the Dallas Mavericks. On paper, this doesn’t seem too bad. Both the Mavericks and the…
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NBA Season Preview 1/30: Can the Detroit Pistons bounce back from disaster?
Over the last 5 seasons, from the 2019-2020 NBA Season, to the latest, the 2023-24 campaign, the Detroit Pistons have amassed a record of 94-290, or, a winning percentage of .245 having played 384 NBA Games in that timespan. The Pistons have been a team stuck in the pits of…
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Wardell Wizardry: Team USA beat resilient France in Gold Medal Matchup
Men’s Basketball at the Paris 2024 Olympics concluded with a rematch of the 2020 Olympics final, between the omnipotent Team USA and the hosts, France, in a match up that many did not have on the cards. Throughout the Group stages, the hosts had gone 2-1, but did not look…
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The Rise of Naz Reid
June 20th 2019. All 60 picks of the NBA Draft were named, and LSU bigman Naz Reid, was not one of those 60 picks. The 6’9 forward had come off of a Freshman season for the Tigers where he averaged a solid 13.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and an assist per…
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