Basketball Intelligence For 4/2/25
The day's best news and reporting
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Reconsidering the rookies from the denigrated 2024 draft class
Joe Wolfond, The Score
How the Trail Blazers are Bringing Games to Visually Impaired Fans
Sean Highkin, The Rose Garden Report
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Western Conference Standings, NBA Awards Picks, Ring Culture and More...
Tune in to the newest installment of the Corner Three Podcast. In Episode 5 we discuss the Lakers up and downplay, how the standings will shakeout in the Western Conference, our NBA award predictions, what player legacies would be impacted the most if they got a championship, and much more.
RefMasters w/Sony Tiwari
Ray LeBov and Nick Agar-Johnson talk with Sony Tiwari, Co-Founder and CEO of RefMasters, a platform created to educate people on officiating. The three discuss the mechanics of the platform and the community fostered around it, as well as several different areas of discussion regarding refereeing habits and common misconceptions of officiating.
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The Rundown
Aaron Bollwinkel, Live. Breathe. Ball.
While Malik Beasley’s increase in volume has been noteworthy, when you look at the progression for the player, there were prior signs that he could go up a level. Whereas, in the case of Anthony Edwards, he went full raccoon tail and decided to skip whole worlds. The evolution in Ant’s game to an elite producer from long range is the type of change you rarely see from a superstar-level player this early in their development.
NBA News and Rumor Roundup 4/2/2025
Jacob Sutton, JSutt Hoops
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Wolves Outlast Nuggets in 2OT Game of the Year | HOOPS Daily, 4/2/2025
Dustin Brewer, HOOPS Daily
What's at stake during NBA's final two weeks? Playoff races, lottery odds and historic stats to watch
Colin Ward-Henninger, CBS Sports
New faces, New places
Jared Dubin, Last Night, In Basketball
We Don’t Need Newsbreakers
Owen Phillips The F5
This isn’t meant to disparage Shams, who by all accounts has earned everything he’s gotten and can’t be faulted for chasing the bag. Rather, it’s meant to disparage the entire profession of newsbreaking. Rita Skeeter was supposed to be the villain in Harry Potter. She’d have 20 million followers and a lucrative TV deal if she pivoted to the NBA.
NBA coaching carousel: Pros, cons, what's next for every open job
Tim Bontemps, ESPN
TEAM NEWS
CHA: Will Hornets capture the Flagg? Win over Utah has ramifications in chase for Duke star
Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer
CLE: Why Ty Jerome ranks among the Cavaliers' greatest bench players ever
Caleb Crowley, King James Gospel
DEN: What’s it like to face Nikola Jokić on a 61-point triple-double night? ‘Bruh, oh my God’
Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic
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