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The competition is hotting up in the NBA Western Conference, with loads of action and players starting to show their true form. This has not only been reflected in the audience numbers going up but by a growing interest in the NBA. Teams are, of course, looking at ways to improve their chances of success this season, and the Los …

Coming out of high school, Corey Maggette was one of the most highly recruited players in the nation. He had his choice of schools, and he made it known early on that he would be looking nationwide. Home states schools such as Illinois and Depaul came after him hard, but he was also getting looks from schools with extremely high …

Getting a spot in the playoffs is a big deal for any NBA team, but the members of the Western Conference that are in the running at the moment have more to gain than most if they make it through to the next stage. So which teams are currently in contention to secure a place in the playoffs and what …

The New York Knickerbockers are a popular and victorious basketball team that is also referred to as the Knicks. They are an American basketball team that is popularly known for their expertise and professionalism in this ball game. This team is managed in New York Borough. They have over-time competed in many leagues together with the NBA, holding the Atlantic …

It was a dramatic night on Thursday when the Boston Celtics met the LA Clippers, ahead of the All-Star game. Both teams had come to play following mild personal losses and both teams knew that they would have to do better this time. Their NBA basketball scores were impressive and so evenly matched that it was a bit of challenge …

The charity strike, or the free-throw line, is one of the most important facets in the game today. Allowing the opposition to shoot freely without any defender in their way can make or break a game. Teams that want to be considered a legitimate threat to win the NBA Championship often have great free-throw shooters. Granted, they have great shooters …

Many experts are saying that Zion Williamson is the best player on this year’s NBA draft. But there is a solid number of them which believe that those evaluations are not true. That in fact, the No.3 pick RJ Barrett is the guy who has the biggest potential. Barrett was picked by the New York Knicks. He was projected to …

The NBA is the apex of basketball across the world, with a global audience of over 1 billion viewers in 215 countries. Here are the top six NBA betting tips to maximize your chances of winning. (1) Tracking Line Movements In NBA, the betting lines are often unveiled more than 24 hours ahead of the game, unless there is a …

UPDATES on 2019-2020 NBA SCHEDULE The 2019-20 NBA season will move back one week next year and begin October 22, per league sources. This means the playoffs will also begin a week later. The change is to prevent opening night from occurring too early moving forward each year. The FIBA World Cup was also a factor. — Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) …

We love watching sports stars do their thing in the fields. But many of them have a different unappealing lifestyle behind the glass doors of fame. Many of them have lost a great deal of their fortune due to one reason or another. Some of these broke sports stars include: Bill Buckner Bill Buckner’s started having bad lucks when he …

When KD landed on his opponent’s foot awkwardly and, twisted his ankle, which resulted in a right ankle contusion, some might have thought that Warriors were the dark horses going into games vs Houston and OKC. Little did they know that, in the next two games, Golden State would end Houston’s nine-game winning streak and then, three days later, demolish …

Kobe Bryant’s Mamba Mentality has seen him do everything after his retirement from the NBA. Bryant’s drive for excellence has led him to produce an Oscar-winning short film, write a book, and even multiply a $6M investment to $200M. Heck, he and his wife are even expecting a fourth daughter soon. From film producer, writer, businessman, and father. What else …

After finishing the 2017-18 season as the NBA’s top regular season team and taking the Golden State Warriors to a 7th game in the 2018 Western Conference Finals, the Houston Rockets were considered among the Top 4 Contenders to win the NBA title this season. But after a combination of circumstances and events, the Rockets had a slow start to …

The NBA is all about analytics and the league as a whole has every reason to be. The league arguably has more talent now than ever and several franchises have opted to hoard it. Finding ways to compete at a high level still requires landing marquee players, but coaches and front offices also need to get a little creative. That …

The 2018-2019 NBA season keeps inching closer and closer to tip-off. We have less than a month before all of our favorite stars hit the hardwood. The question looms: beyond Golden State, who are the top contenders this year? We are going to look at the top four teams according to the implied probability provided by sports betting outlets. Top …

UPDATES on 2018-2019 NBA SCHEDULE The full NBA schedule has been released … CAN'T. WAIT. ? https://t.co/4ejRMoIKJ9 pic.twitter.com/QMWN9u1kPe — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 10, 2018 ???? Our #KiaTipOff18 schedule! pic.twitter.com/CZi86ue28Q — NBA (@NBA) August 8, 2018 NBA on Christmas Day should be ? (First reported by @nytimes, confirmed by ESPN.) pic.twitter.com/4XZyhX0Woj — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 8, 2018 NBA will release its …

Can anyone beat Harden to the 2018 MVP Award? The race to the top for the NBA stats is one that typically goes into overdrive at this time of year. From the start of the season, all those months ago, James Harden has been the man everyone has to beat, and few have looked likely to do so. All that …

Based upon our expert sports analysis, we predict the Brooklyn Nets schedule to be pretty darn gruesome. Eleven games out of the first 16 away, 18 of the final 26 games to be played not in Brooklyn, and the first 10 games against some of the toughest contenders in the league. Ouch. This season will be most likely the most …

Cleveland will meet Golden State in the 2015 NBA Finals. I didn’t just want to take a look at player-by-player match-ups since the only thing that gets me excited is who will/can/would like to guard LeBron James? The Warriors appear to be confident that already have personnel with the abilities to stop the King James. Steve Kerr has given Draymond …

Only a handful of rookies manage to make a significant impact every season during their first year, mainly due to the pressure that they face from the media and the hype around them. The expectations build up as people try to project their role in their teams as future prospects. The 2015 draft has brought us some interesting names. One …

Once the NBA schedule has been released, you can download NBA league schedule and team schedules in exportable to Excel format to build your own analysis. 2016-17 NBA schedule has been released on 11th August, at 5:45 PM. Our NBA schedule analysis is also up. NBA 2016-17 regular season schedule is on its way. Last season, the schedule came out …

This is a guest post by Vincent La and Anirudh Jayanti who are undergraduate students at Dartmouth College. They studied on calculating the “skill curve” for players and tried to find out the optimal shot allocation among a certain five-man unit. In the end, for the Knicks’ sake, it gives you an idea whether Carmelo Anthony should shoot more or …

NBA 2015-2016 schedule came out on August 12, 2015. As usual on NBAstuffer, check out the team-by-team schedule analysis with sortable rest days (including back-to-back’s). And also don’t miss our NBA schedule visualization including team-by-team road trips & homestands analysis Download NBA schedule in excel format to build your own analysis

NBA 2014-2015 schedule has been released on 13th August, at 6p.m. ET. Download NBA 2014-2015 regular season league schedule in Excel As it’s been released, as usual, NBAstuffer got the new schedule analyzed in terms of various rest days and make all schedules available for download in excel format.

A long time NBAstuffer reader Damon Smith has studied on a new metric called “Scoring Contribution Percentage”, which is derived from True Shooting % and adjusted for extra possessions created by offensive rebounds, steals and blocked shots and for possessions lost from turnovers. Not only predicting the scoring differential, Scoring Contribution % can be applied at evaluating individual offensive efficiency …

I used to make these charts in the past. You can question how timely it is to post it right now but it’s a matter of me finding just some extra time. I hope it still makes sense going into the halfway mark of the season. Comments to @nbastuffer are welcomed! View infographic in full width

UPDATE: The schedule has been released! Rest Days Analysis All schedules available for downloading in excel format. The NBA 2013-2014 Regular Season Schedule is set to get released on August 6, 2013 at 6 pm. Once it’s been released, as usual, NBAstuffer will get the schedule analyzed in terms of various rest days and make all schedules available for downloading …