Check out this incredible, astounding, extraordinary fact, via Deadspin's Albert Burneko: Playing around on my own with some numbers available at NBA.com, I'm concluding with some amount of confidence that over 50 percent of Thunder possessions culminate within one touch of Russ when he's on the foor. (You can scroll down to check that minutiae). That's absurd. That kind of load-bearing is pretty much unprecedented. I don't like to dip into the old "if X team didn't have Y pl

Let's start this one by getting a few things out of the way. The Warriors signed Matt Barnes the other day because Kevin Durant hyperextended his knee when the less-than-graceful Zaza Pachulia fell into him. He will be out at least a few weeks, and it is never good to not have Kevin Durant. Last night the Warriors were bad in their second straight game without Durant, and they lost a second straight game for the first time since April 2015. Barnes didn't really do a whole lot

The Knicks, apparently, are bringing the triangle offense back. That means something, I think. It sounds like it means something. Only, in 2017, it's hard to really conceptualize what, in a real and concrete sense, that would mean. Jeff Hornacek, transparently at the behest of Phil Jackson, wants to play a "more traditional" triangle system. They want to, in the words of Hornacek, be able to "say either yay or nay" on a player fitting into the system. All of this presupposes