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Basketball Intelligence For 2/21/23

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Basketball Intelligence For 2/21/23

Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis

Basketball Intelligence
Feb 21, 2023
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BOS: Tatum has improved his playmaking in Smart’s absence
Wayne Spooney, Celtics Blog

BOS: Tatum has been operating as the roll man more frequently this season
Adam Taylor, Celtics Blog

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CHI: Patrick Beverley will take over Bulls locker room — and that’s a good thing
Darnell Mayberry, The Athletic

DET: How Cade Cunningham is making up for lost time
James Edwards III, The Athletic

GSW: Warriors’ two-way conversion dilemma: Ty Jerome or Anthony Lamb?
CJ Holmes, SF Chronicle

GSW: Three keys to the Warriors’ playoff push
Shayna Rubin, Mercury News

LAC: Desperate? Gutsy? Clippers think Russell Westbrook will work for them
Mirjam Swanson, OC Register

LAL: How D’Angelo Russell is shifting the Lakers’ gears
Alex Regla, Silver Screen And Roll

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MIA: With Kevin Love And Cody Zeller, The HEAT Add Shooting And Offensive Fit
Couper Moorhead, Heat.com

NYK: Questions hang over Knicks’ playoff push
Peter Botte, NY Post

OKC: Behind the Thunder’s Historic Year-Over-Year Offensive Growth
Nick Gallo, OKCThunder.com

PHI: What can we expect from Sixers after All-Star break?
Rich Hofmann, The Athletic

POR: Season Review: Anfernee Simons
Marlow Ferguson, Jr, Blazer’s Edge

POR: 3 things to watch for from the Trail Blazers coming out of the all-star break
Andrew Hanlon, Rip City Project

SAC: Q & A: HC Mike Brown
James Ham, The Kings Beat

SAS: Which Spurs should see a shift in minutes after the All-Star Break?
Noah Magaro-George, Air Alamo

SAS: Big job ahead for Spurs’ veterans Gorgui Dieng, Doug McDermott
Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews

SAS: Spurs recall ‘larger than life’ Red McCombs’ impact on franchise
Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews

TOR: 5 questions that’ll decide the 2022-23 Raptors’ season
Eric Koreen, The Athletic

UTA: Jazz Week In Review
Dan Clayton, Salt City Hoops

LEAGUE-WIDE STORIES

Each NBA team ranked by its championship chance this season
Ricky O’Donnell, SBNation

With about two dozen games remaining and the trade deadline gone, how many contenders are there?
Tom Ziller, GMIB

Power Rankings, Week 19
John Schuhmann, NBA.com

The All-Star Game is not much of a game
Dan Woike, LA Times

The All-Star Game’s lack of defense reaches a new low
Kyle Goon, OC Register

As the NBA gets more and more skilled, ‘Tall Ball’ continues to (re)-take hold
David Aldridge, The Athletic

The Balkans Boom
Jordan Ritter Conn, The Ringer

VYING FOR VICTOR

Inside Victor Wembanyama’s Plan to Dominate the NBA Like Never Before
Jeremy Woo, Sports Illustrated

This is the Wembanyama effect: He leaves everyone searching for new ways to describe whatever it is they’ve just encountered.

In NBA circles, scouts have privately thrown out comparisons to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. LeBron James, following Wembanyama’s two exhibition games in Vegas, described him as an “alien.”

“I’ve seen him make five threes with the right hand in a row, switch to the left and make five threes,” says Stanford’s Maxime Raynaud, who grew close with Wembanyama during a shared final season at Nanterre, Victor’s first club. “That’s the craziest s— I had ever seen in my life.”


THE DRAFT

Prospect Overview: Kobe Brown
Maxwell Baumbach, No Ceilings

Questions for Top Prospects Heading Into Stretch Run
Adam Spinella, The Box And One

NBA HISTORY

The worst team in NBA history doesn’t want to be forgotten
Frederic Frommer, Washington Post


FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY: from the BI archives

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