Dunn can do everything a team asks of him on defense and more. He can guard all five college positions and should be able to check one through four in the NBA. He is an elite defensive playmaker who averaged 1.3 steals and 2.4 blocks per game. He’s always available as a rim protec...
The Pac-12 All-Freshman Team member is a sleeper for the No. 1 pick due to his positional size, long-term upside as a two-way player, consistency when he’s played this season, and the overall uncertainty at the top of the draft, according to a few NBA executives and scouts who spo...
The Kentucky freshman is one of the most dangerous scorers in this class. He is a gifted shot creator, confident shooter, and tough-shot maker. Dillingham would provide instant offense to fill a potential void left behind from the two star guards currently on the roster. ...
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Green has mostly lived up to expectations as he bypassed college to become the big fish on the first ever G League Ignite team. Years later, Green has grown into his truly elite athletic traits and has started to turn himself into a bonafide shot-maker who can score from all over...
Two of the most talented players in the league, Lebron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo, show completely unique styles according to the Principal Component Analysis. Antetokounmpo is placed near Embiid, a center among the tallest players in the league who has a great part of his role focused near...
The Smailagic pick may seem completely random, but the Warriors have been trying to hide this guy for a few years. They signed and stashed him in the G-League a few years ago and have been working on developing him. The organization is very high on him, but it may be a while until...
“He’s completely empowered. Obviously he’s still under contract for another year, but he—in a sense—now controls his own destiny. Before he didn’t. That’s very important. I don’t think it’s a miscalculation controlling your own destiny and taking control of the narrativ...
“You’re not even improving it so much as trying to stop it from getting worse.” Like a fund manager, he must cope with the fine line between ROI, the number of bets he makes and the natural volatility caused by the random. The more he wagers, the more he courts ruin. In one ...
Yang: I feel like the answer to this question has to be Jayson Tatum. It’s Game 7. He’s the team’s superstar. The Celtics do have enough depth to overcome Tatum’s slow starts and random disappearances, but their offense is too overwhelming for the Heat when he’s on. ...