Basketball Intelligence For 11/18/24
Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis
LEAGUE NEWS
Basketball Bytes: The NBA Players Who Are — And Aren’t — Their Usual Selves This Year
Neil Paine, Neil’s Substack
De'Aaron Fox invokes superhero mode
Tom Ziller, Good Morning It’s Basketball
Where does James Harden rank among the greatest shooters of all time?
Ian Levy, The Whiteboard
‘Inside the NBA’ to continue on ABC and ESPN as part of TNT-NBA settlement
Andrew Marchand & Jenna West, The Athletic
Warriors, Grizzlies surviving the grind, scouting Cooper Flagg, NBA Cup Season!
John Hollinger, The Athletic
TEAM NEWS
ATL: Hawks careless with the ball as they fall to Blazers
Lauren Williams, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
BKN: Knicks pull away in 3rd quarter to take second straight from Nets
C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News
BOS: 10 takeaways from a buzzer-beater night in the Garden
Azad Rosay, Celtics Blog
BOS: Jayson Tatum’s buzzer beater lifts Celtics over scrappy Raptors in OT: 9 takeaways
Tom Westerholm, Boston.com
BOS: Jay Scrubb's long road back to Boston never actually left the city
Jack Simone, Hardwood Houdini
CLE: Cavaliers win 15th straight game to begin 2024-25 NBA season, joining an elite group
Jenna West & Jason Lloyd, The Athletic
Atkinson has overhauled an offense that played slow last year and relied too heavily on stale pick and rolls. The Cavaliers are getting into their actions quicker, they’ve dramatically increased the cutting, screening and passing from last year and have shooters in the corners, multiple playmakers and elite ball handlers.
CLE: ‘What’s better than that?’: Cavs to put perfect record on the line against defending champion Celtics
Chris Fedor, Cleveland.com
CLE: The offseason plan fueling the Cleveland Cavaliers to the top of the NBA
Brian Windhurst, ESPN.com
DAL: Without Luka Dončić, Mavericks Lean on P.J. Washington, Kyrie Irving, and Depth to Defeat Thunder
Grant Afseth, Dallas Hoops Journal
GSW: How Warriors' new blood on coaching staff already paying dividends
Monte Poole, NBC Sports Bay Area