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Basketball Can Utah’s Taylor Hendricks be the Best Rookie Not Named Wemby? Welcome to our offseason series “Immediate Impacts.” Most rookies don’t provide positive value to their teams right out of the gate. But as we saw last season with guys like… 6 months ago Mat Issa
Basketball Can First-Round Pick Jett Howard Help Unlock Paolo Banchero in Orlando? Welcome to our offseason series “Immediate Impacts.” Most rookies don’t provide positive value to their teams right out of the gate. But as we saw last season with guys like… 6 months ago Mat Issa
Basketball FIBA World Cup 2023: The Ways in Which Schroder, Latvia and Luka Shined on the Global Stage The basketball world has a new champion. Germany earned the right to be called “world champions” over the next four years after winning the FIBA World Cup 2023. But what… 7 months ago Fabien Le Luyer
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Basketball Can Gradey Dick Help Toronto Avoid a Raptor Rebuild? Welcome to our offseason series “Immediate Impacts.” Most rookies don’t provide positive value to their teams right out of the gate. But as we saw last season with guys like… 7 months ago Mat Issa
Basketball College Basketball Rankings and Predictions How our projection model works: TRACR, a rating adjusted for the team’s conference and roster, is trained on over 15 years of college basketball data. Factoring these inputs together produces… 7 months ago Opta Analyst