Grant Hughes
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5 Bold NBA Offseason Predictions
The 2020 NBA offseason is ripe for bold predictions, which is just another way of saying absolutely nobody knows what's going to happen. The draft's defining characteristic is its uncertainty... → Read More
Predicting the Best 2020 NBA Free Agents Who Will Change Teams
This year's NBA free agency won't live up to the whirlwind we saw in 2019, and if several teams' hoarding of cap space for 2021 tells us anything, it's that the league believes there's more talent to be scooped up in that class than this one... → Read More
NBA Trade Ideas to Break Up Bad Superstar Fits
You've heard the saying "hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard." But even when you have talent that does work hard, success is far from assured. Because that talent, whether it works hard or not, has to fit... → Read More
3-Team NBA Trades Where Everybody Wins
One of the best ways to solve an NBA trade problem is to make it more complicated. Wait, what? Strange as it sounds, adding a third team to a tricky trade proposal often makes the whole process cleaner... → Read More
5 Ways the Next NBA Season Will Impact 2021 Free Agency
The 2020-21 NBA season is coming, and it's coming fast, if reports on a Dec. 22 start date from The Athletic's Shams Charania are any indication... → Read More
1 Surprise Trade Idea for Every NBA Team
With a short and unusual offseason, looming financial uncertainty and a draft nobody seems to have a handle on, almost any NBA trade would constitute a surprise these days. But we've got 30 swaps, one for every team, anyway... → Read More
2020 NBA Free Agents Whose Value Sunk This Season
It's not a stretch to say that almost every NBA free agent's value took a hit this past season. COVID-19 didn't just put the year on pause; it also cut fans out of the equation, ... → Read More
Underutilized NBA Prospects Who Need a Trade
It takes talent to succeed in the NBA , but opportunity and location have more impact on performance than you might think. A potentially great player stuck behind a star may never get the chance to flourish... → Read More
Blockbuster NBA Trades That Actually Make Sense
Blockbuster NBA trades are supposed to strike a chord of disbelief, which makes concocting sensible ones tricky. Fortunately, this offseason will see several teams in desperate situations... → Read More
Ranking the Greatest NBA Careers with a Single Franchise
It's a common complaint that modern NBA basketball is somehow diminished by constant player movement. The criticisms generally include some combination of the following: Rivalries ... → Read More
The Best Trade Every NBA Team Can Actually Make This Offseason
Despite this offseason's talent-deficient and cash-strapped free-agency period, NBA teams aren't just going to give up on trying to improve themselves... → Read More
NBA Superstars Who Should Be on Trade Watch This Offseason
With player movement seemingly drawing just as much interest as the games themselves, NBA trade watch never really stops... → Read More
The Riskiest 2020 Big-Money NBA Free Agents
With the pandemic trimming revenue and financial uncertainty looming, you'd think caution would be the theme of 2020 NBA free agency. Add to that a class short on stars, and there's even more reason for teams with cash to spend wisely... → Read More
Every NBA Franchise's Team That Should've Won a Championship
NBA basketball is a zero-sum operation, which means there's only ever one true winner at the end of each season. That's not quite the same as saying just one team deserved to win... → Read More
Handing Out Awards for Every NBA Team
It's been a weird year in the NBA. Or, actually, it still is a weird year. See? We don't even know what tense to use in the wake of a four-month pandemic-induced hiatus, a bubble ... → Read More
Ranking the Best NBA Defenders of the 2010s
Maybe it's just the recency talking, but it felt a lot harder to settle on the top defenders of the 2010s than it was to narrow down the field for the 2000s ... → Read More
8 NBA Stars Who Made Coming off the Bench Cool
The NBA bench is a tough thing to glorify. Generally, to be sent there is to be punished. No athlete wants to be a reserve, and it's hard to imagine a hopeful kid in his driveway ... → Read More
Every NBA Team's 2020 Free-Agency Big Board
Even amid rampant uncertainty, failing to plan is planning to fail. So you'd better believe that even as all 30 NBA teams are still trying to complete the interrupted 2019-20 season, they're also looking ahead to 2020 free agency... → Read More
Re-Drafting the 2017 NBA Draft Class
The 2017 NBA re-draft gets us to a point at which the majority of players involved are still, hopefully, in the upward-trajectory phase of their careers. That means there's less certainty and more projection involved than in any prior class... → Read More
Re-Drafting the 2016 NBA Draft Class
The closer we get to the present, the harder these NBA re-drafts get. With the 2016 edition, we're not just tallying the numbers from completed careers, and we don't have the benefit ... → Read More