Tag: NBA

2020-2021 Boston Celtics Season Preview

It feels like the Celtics were playing competitive games just yesterday… well, maybe not YESTERDAY, but their last game of last season was Sunday, September 27.

For perspective, that was Week 3 of the NFL season. The NFL season is about to enter Week 15.

Yeah, not too long ago… yet some things have changed.

Who’s on the team? Can they expect to get back to the Eastern Conference Finals (or further)? What does a full season during a pandemic look like?

Lots of questions, but I’ll address those – and my expectations as a fan – below.

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NBA 2025: Predicting the Top 10 Players in the NBA 5 years from now

Over 5 years ago Bleacher Report released an article listing their predictions for who they believed the top 20 players would be in 2020.

There were some good guesses. For example, Giannis was put 11th, which is off of where he is today (top 3 at minimum), but the fact he was in the top 20 at all was good foresight.

Anthony Davis was number 1. KD was 4. Steph Curry and James Harden were in the top 10.

Then there some big misses.

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Doncic and Tatum join NBA Royalty

Yesterday the NBA announced their yearly All-NBA teams. We saw some familiar names such as LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard, but we also saw four players make an All-NBA team for the first time: Luka Doncic, Pascal Siakam, Jayson Tatum and Ben Simmons.

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