National Breakfast Association: Imagining NBA Playoff Teams as Breakfast Foods-Western Conference.

ICYMI: Here’s Part 1, on Eastern Teams There’s no real rhyme or reason to how or why I first thought of comparing NBA playoff teams to breakfast foods. Maybe it was because I live near an IHOP. Maybe it’s just because I was hungry in the morning. Either way, the counterparts for the San Antonio […]

Pay Tribute to the Klaw: Kawhi Leonard, Your 2016 Defensive Player of the Year

Monday morning, it was announced that the San Antonio Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard repeated as Defensive Player of the Year. It’s an entirely deserved award, and the irony is that his win this year was probably more clearly his than last year, while the voting numbers aren’t that far off. Kawhi led voting with 547 points, […]

Rare Occasion: How the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs Lose

Originally written on April 1, 2016 Warning: What follows is an attempt to glean meaning from a small sample size, because these teams are too damn good this year to lose a human number of games. Proceed with that in mind. Losses aren’t all that common when we’re talking about the Spurs and […]

Close-Up: How the Warriors and Spurs Get Their Short-Range Points

Originally written Mar. 31, 2016 It’s no secret that one of the most important components of a successful team is scoring from close range. Even in a league that finds itself increasingly enchanted with the long ball, strong big men, guards, and wings who know how to create shooting space inside 10 feet are absolutely […]

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National Breakfast Association: Imagining NBA Playoff Teams as Breakfast Foods-Western Conference.

Pay Tribute to the Klaw: Kawhi Leonard, Your 2016 Defensive Player of the Year

Rare Occasion: How the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs Lose

Close-Up: How the Warriors and Spurs Get Their Short-Range Points