
How Carmelo could unlock the Thunder's very best
Carmelo Anthony is, famously, a known member of the Banana Boat Crew. But strangely, if you go back and look at the ceaselessly amusing picture that inspired the group's name, Melo's not actually in it. It's Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul, and LeBron. Melo was on the vacation, but he wasn't on the banana boat. He's always kinda stood apart that way in the NBA, partly through his own machinations and partly through forces outside his control, among the greats but alw

What rankings are getting wrong
The basketball world might would be better off without #NBArank. ESPN's annual exercise in organized boredom to pass the hoops-barren late summer inspires just all kinds of stupid controversies and debate. It is a magnet for takes we could all probably do without. But, hell, people also like ranking things, and you gotta talk about something in September, right? So maybe the problem isn't so much the concept but the execution. Maybe the problem is that how we conceptualize ra