Basketball Intelligence for 4/11/24
Jrue Holiday, Denver's big win, seeding battles, and more!
LEAGUEWIDE STORIES
Picking Every Award on the NBA’s 2023-24 Ballot
Michael Pina, The Ringer
David Thorpe’s contenders
David Thorpe,
Kram Session: Eight Numbers to Know Ahead of the 2024 NBA Playoffs
Zach Kram, The Ringer
The Warriors aren’t the NBA’s smallest team by weight, however; that would be the Thunder, with stringbean Chet Holmgren at center. Oklahoma City’s average team weight, based on B-Ref figures, is just 199.6 pounds, followed by the Warriors at 206.9 pounds as the only other team below 210. Interestingly, the Thunder have a top-10 defense, but none of the next eight lightest teams do.
NBA Pre-Postseason Player Tiers 3 and 4: All-Star point guards, 4 Celtics and some Thunder
Seth Partnow, The Athletic
TEAM STORIES
WAS: How Tyus Jones became one of the most underrated point guards in the NBA
Jeff Zillgitt, USA Today
With an assist-to-turnover ratio of 7.3:1, he will break his own NBA assist-to-turnover ratio of 7.04:1 he posted in 2021-22 with Memphis and he will become the first player to lead the league in assist-to-turnover ratio in five consecutive seasons.
TOR: Short-handed Raptors lose in tight one to Nets
Coty Wiles, Raptors Republic