The Double Double

The NBA Season is finally here, and we've already seen some great moments from our rookie class. Brandon Miller looks great to start the year, better than many people expected him to look. The Celtics start the season 2-0, and the starting 5 looks incredible right out of the gate. I expected the Houston Rockets to be a competitive team and fun to watch, and so far they look to be the same dysf...

The Western Conference this year is packed full of talent, and there are way more than 8 teams that expect to make the playoffs this year. This episode is our breakdown of our picks for the 1-15 seeds in the Western Conference. The Denver Nuggets are a Juggernaut and should continue to be viewed as the best team in the West. Outside of that, the fight for home court advantage is going to be an exc...

We are back! We took a hiatus for a bit from the NBA this offseason but we are back and ready to start bringing you more NBA content as the season inches closer. Today, we will be breaking down the Eastern Conference for this season and giving you our picks for what seed we expect each team to be. The Bucks and the Celtics rule the East this year, but we expect some younger teams to really start s...

The Summer League play this year has been so exciting. In this episode, we start by going over all of the rookies that have played in Summer League so far, and what our thoughts are on all of them. There have been some very impressive performances by some Second Year players, most notably Jabari Smith Jr, and we highlight some of our favorites of those as well. The In-Season tournament is official...

The Big Waves of Free Agency have all passed and a lot of teams made big moves. In this episode, we go through and talk about some of our most favorite and least favorite moves by each of the big players in this year's free agency. We have some big disagreements about the Magic, who could have made big free agency moves but chose not to. Some teams, like the Suns and Mavs, took big steps in im...

The NBA Draft is one of our favorite parts of the NBA Season. We've spent a lot of time over the past researching these prospects and building our own mock drafts, and last night was the night of the draft. In this episode, we review all of the first-round picks of this draft and all of the notable second-rounders. There are some picks that we disagree on like Anthony Black at 6 and Bilal Coul...

The NBA Draft is only two days away, and we have finally reached a point where we're comfortable with our mock draft and our predictions for the 2023 NBA Draft. We have spent plenty of time talking about the top 3 picks in earlier episodes, so today we spent more on some of the lesser-discussed names. There are some important players in this class, Coulibaly and Bufkin among the top, that we d...

Nikola Jokic had one of the best post season runs we have ever seen in this year’s playoffs, and it ended with his First Finals MVP and The Denver Nuggets first championship as a franchise. The team is built around Jokic perfectly, and the offense they ran through these playoffs had no weaknesses. Jimmy Butler and the Heat fought very well to get to the finals, and their future as they try to rema...

The Finals are Tied! Denver lost their first home game since March 30th as the Miami Heat put together the best fourth quarter performance they've had all year. Jokic has had no trouble scoring in the games where defense tightens up on the rest of his team, but the Nuggets have not found success through Jokic's monster scoring alone. They are 0-3 in these playoffs in games where Jokic has...

The Boston Celtics became the 4th team in NBA history to force a game 7 after being down 3-0, but failed to close out the series and will be watching the Finals from home this year. There were probably going to be major changes coming to the organization if they had been swept by Miami, but after the game 7 loss, it seems like the team will be pretty comfortable running it back next year. Miami ad...

With the draft lottery being announced, we put together our First Draft for this year's NBA Draft. This includes every pick in the first round, with some opinion about why that player might belong at that spot and what he brings to the NBA. There are some teams that are likely to be moving their pick, like Portland, but in the odds that they do decide to draft a player, we give some thoughts a...

The Conference Finals have not gone the way almost anyone would have been able to expect. The Denver Nuggets have been a great team all season, but a 3-0 lead is definitely unexpected especially given AD's 29/14 averages through these first 3 games. The Nuggets have played incredibly as a team, and Jamal Murray is showing the league the ceiling he can hit in the playoffs. In the East, the Heat...

The draft order for this year's NBA Draft was announced last night, and the San Antonio Spurs were the lucky team this year to receive the #1 pick and the rights to draft Victor Wembanyama. The Pistons were the biggest loser of this draft process, sinking all the way to the 5th pick despite their record in the regular season. The Blazers are interested in moving their #3 pick in order to get o...

The Celtics have pulled off the 3-2 series comeback with a dominant game 7 victory behind Jayson Tatum's 51/13/5 with 0 turnovers, setting an NBA record for points in a game 7. The Celtics have not always looked their best in these playoffs, but this game 7 showed everyone why Jayson Tatum is a superstar and what makes him truly different. The Sixers had some historic choke Jobs from MVP Joel...

This Conference Semifinals has not gone the way that many fans in Boston, including myself, thought it would go. James Harden has put on 3 masterclass performances over 5 games, and Embiid is slowly but surely getting closer to 100%. The Celtics were able to overcome a 3-2 lead in last year's playoffs but it seems far less likely this time around. The Nuggets take a 3-2 lead over the Suns, wit...

The NBA Draft Lottery is only a week away! The draft is one of our favorite things to follow in the NBA, so today we brought you our tier list for the upcoming draft class. We have our list split into 4 tiers: Franchise Changer, Team Changer, Impactful Players, and Role Players. For each player, we give a little breakdown of their skillset, as well as some potential best fits. We will be back with...

Joel Embiid has officially become the 2023 NBA MVP, winning 76% of the first place votes and having an absolutely historic season. Jokic and Giannis has fantastic seasons as well, but their statistical production doesn't touch that of Embiid. Embiid hasn't shown the same fire in the playoffs, largely due to the sprained LCL ligament in his knee. The Celtics dropped game 1 to an incredible...

We are almost through with the first round of the NBA Playoffs, and they have been much more excited than a lot of us expected. The Milwaukee Bucks lost in 5 to the Miami Heat, in a series that absolutely nobody expected to go the way that it did. Jimmy Butler's playoff legacy continues to be written, and the Bucks are in a very interesting spot moving forward. Despite some Trae Young heroics,...

The first round of the playoffs has been incredibly entertaining so far. The Sixers are the only team who have managed to sweep their opponent, but many of the remaining series seem to have been decided. The Cleveland Cavs have not had the playoff run that fans had hoped for, and there is a lot of blame to be passed around. The depth for Cleveland has been an issue all season, but even the play of...

The playoffs are here, and they have been excellent so far! As a Celtics homer, watching them beat down Atlanta was beautiful, but as an NBA fan, we have really been spoiled with entertaining first-round match ups. Clippers vs Suns seems much more exciting than previously thought, and the Warriors vs Kings series has had some incredible offensive moments already. These first games tell us a lot ab...

The end of the regular season is finally here! Before the playoffs start, we wanted to come on to give our predictions for which teams we think will advance into the next rounds of the playoffs. We gave our predictions for every round including the Finals and some thoughts on how we think each series will go. The playoffs are just starting so we will be sure to put out more episodes as the first r...

A new Collective Bargaining Agreement has been agreed upon and signed by the Owners and Players of the NBA, and it comes with some major changes moving forward. In an attempt to curb Load Management, players will now be required to play at least 65 games to be in consideration for any regular season award. There will also be a new in-season tournament coming very soon, which should hopefully make...

We are very close to the end of the regular season! We are very excited for the playoffs, but we wanted to give our selections for All-NBA and All-Rookie Teams for the 2022-2023 Season. There are definitely arguments to be made for a couple different players to be higher or lower on our list, but these are who we would give our vote to if we had one. The guard spot is very deep this year, and ther...

This NBA Season brought a lot of unexpected narratives. The Sacramento Kings arose as one of the best teams in the West, The Knicks and Jalen Brunson are a serious playoff threat, and guys like Lauri Markkanen have taken massive leaps in their game out of nowhere. There have also been some major dissapointments. The Dallas Mavericks lose Jalen Brunson for nothing in the offseason, trade for Kyrie...

Today, we give grades for the 2022 NBA Draft Class, giving grades between A-F for each of the first round picks, and some of the noticeable second round picks. Our grades are based on how each of these rookies has performed this year and how well they have met or exceeded their expectations. Guys like Jalen Williams and Walker Kessler have exceeded expectations in a big way, while a guy like Paolo...