10 years ago, Adam Silver had his first NBA Draft as commissioner, the Cleveland Cavaliers brandished their third No. 1 pick in a four-year span, and a “yet-to-be-famous” Serbian was taken with the 41st pick.
Whenever players have a bad game or are in a slump, they will immediately want to make up for it by playing better next time. Well, we can round up a bunch of NBA players who cannot wait for the season to start. Why? Because they’ll want to redeem themselves from how bad their year ended last season.
NBA fans keep saying that the most recent playoffs lacked aura. Is that true? Why would fans say something like that?
Before the NBA Finals began, people already realized that it would be all about Kyrie Irving, who plays for Dallas, facing his former team. That was immediately followed by the thought of Boston’s Kristaps Porzingis playing against his old squad, too.
The NBA’s version of the Final Four was over so fast that you might have missed some of the awkward moments where someone had to face a former team or teammate.
We list the awkward scenes where a player or a coach had to play against a squad they used to work for.
It must be weird facing your former team. It is, without a doubt, an awkward feeling when past teammates become your enemies. How would a player or coach deal with it? Does it add any more pressure? We can only guess, but we know that they will do anything to eliminate the team they used to play for.
Nowadays, it is common to see NBA personnel caught in that awkward situation of facing their former team. It should come as no surprise that we saw many of these scenarios play out during the Play-In Tournament.
What would happen if NBA relatives on different squads had to play each other in the postseason? Right now, we have at least five potential family feuds in the making.
If your idea of fun is predicting what the standings will look like when the season ends, you only have one more week left. We find out which teams will participate in the Play-In Tournament when the week ends.
Buckle up for what should be one of basketball’s most volatile periods of the year. We have the men’s NCAA tournament keeping us busy while we monitor the ever-changing landscape of the NBA standings. As if those two were not enough, big names in the women’s NCAA tournament are captivating us, too.
Some NBA plays are so iconic that we are forced to label them. “Dunk of the Year,” “Block of the Year,” and “Game-winner of the Year” are among some of the most recognizable superlatives.
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