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Kiara Schmidt | Friday, November 5, 2021
With the start of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Season, fans celebrate being able to watch their favorite stars like Lebron James and Stephen Curry back in action. However, with recent rule changes made by the league ahead of the 2021-22 season, this year’s competition looks a little different. The NBA has evolved tremendously throughout the
Matt Smith | Thursday, September 30, 2021
“Trust the Process.” That is the only phrase that Philadelphia 76ers fans have heard since 2013 when then-76ers general manager Sam Hinkie emphasized the importance of being patient with the team. The fans believed, and they suffered through some brutal seasons, including an astoundingly bad 10-72 record during the 2015-2016 season. But the outlook for
Matt Young | Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Over the past fifteen or so years, the makeup of the NBA landscape has drastically shifted from one of relative parity to one dominated by a few “superteams.” Such superteams feature multiple stars and are typically a shoe-in to at least make the NBA Finals, if not win it all. Today’s NBA is no different,
Liam Coolican | Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Last year’s playoff bubble gave the NBA a rare opportunity to experiment with a major rule change. The league instituted a play-in tournament in which the ninth seed — if it was within four games of the eight seed — would play a short series to see which team advanced to the playoffs. The eighth
Jamison Cook | Thursday, April 29, 2021
With about eight minutes left in first quarter of their April 25 game against the Sacramento Kings, the Golden State Warriors had put up just seven points. Warriors guard Stephen Curry had already made one three-pointer, and with the shot clock winding down on a subsequent possession, the ball was in Curry’s hands once again.
Liam Coolican | Monday, April 19, 2021
Lebron James. Kevin Durant. Anthony Davis. Jamal Murray. Joel Embiid. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. D’Angelo Russell. What do these players have in common, apart from being NBA superstars? They have all missed significant time due to injury this year. They aren’t the only ones, either. Players like Giannis Antetokounmpo, Steph Curry and James Harden have missed games
Olivia Schatz | Friday, April 16, 2021
The NBA was not always the powerhouse that it is today. Starting with only eleven teams throughout the nation, the basketball organization wasn’t necessarily national. Now, 75 years later with 30 teams, NBA commissioner Adam Silver released a statement saying that expansion was “inevitable” in the organization’s future. With the possibility of the addition of
Ellen Geyer | Wednesday, March 31, 2021
In a shocking turn of events, it would seem that neither J.B. Bickerstaff nor Koby Altman read the column I wrote about their team two weeks ago. Honestly, it’s offensive. You’d think they’d appreciate my cutting-edge journalism a little bit more. But alas, here we stand on the other side of the trade deadline, the
Thomas Zwiller | Monday, March 29, 2021
When the Lakers player Anthony Davis went down against Denver Nuggets with an Achilles and calf injury, I wasn’t initially all that worried. I thought if the Lakers went just a bit over .500 for the next month, they would be fine. LeBron could power through it and keep them in position to stay in
Olivia Schatz | Friday, March 26, 2021
It all started with a box of cigarettes. In 1886 you could walk to the closest general store to pick up a box of Goodwin Tobacco, and inside was the drawing of a baseball player, their name and team printed across the top. Trading cards have become a tradition that have boomed since their creation.