Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system Can Blake Griffin still help an NBA contender? My ESPN colleague Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Sunday that Griffin has agreed to a deal with the Brooklyn Nets after taking a contract buyout with the Detroit Pistons on Friday. The version of Griffin […]

Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Six-time All-Star forward Blake Griffin has agreed to a deal to join the Brooklyn Nets for the rest of the season, his agent Sam Goldfeder of Excel Sports told ESPN on Sunday night. The Nets are using one of their veteran minimum contract slots to sign Griffin, sources said. Griffin informed […]

Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system For the first time ever, the NBA is packing events that typically take place over two nights of All-Star Weekend into one night of action in Atlanta. Our analyst Kevin Pelton is grading all the competitors in the skills challenge, 3-point and […]

The 2021 NBA All-Star Game festivities are tonight in Atlanta. Due to COVID-19, it’s all happening Sunday. That’s right, all the skills, all the scoring, all the 3s and all the dunks in one night. It’s Team LeBron vs. Team Durant with LeBron James and Kevin Durant serving as captains. They drafted their teams earlier this week. The Utah Jazz, […]

The 2021 NBA All-Star Game got off to rough start before players even hit the floor. Prior to Sunday night’s exhibition contest in Atlanta, the league announced Team Durant’s Joel Embiid and Team LeBron’s Ben Simmons had been ruled out in accordance with health and safety protocols. The 76ers stars also had their virtual press conferences canceled, so they were not available to […]

Is everyone ready for NBA All-Star weekend? Well, let’s call it All-Star night. Instead of holding its typical All-Star events over multiple days, the league crammed everything into one evening. On Sunday, the best players from around the NBA will hit the floor at State Farm Arena in Atlanta with the skills competitions and All-Star Game all taking place over the course […]

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Each generation of basketball fans has their favourite Dunk Contest, whether it’s seared into the memory as a child, sat on the carpet cross-legged and star-struck catching the highlights or taken in live, bleary-eyed, full of pizza and beer as an adult. For some, including The Human Highlight Reel himself, Dominique Wilkins’ showdown against Michael Jordan in 1988 remains the […]

Philadelphia 76ers stars Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid are ineligible to play in Sunday's All-Star Game due to contact tracing from exposure to a potential COVID-19 positive individual prior to arriving in Atlanta, the league announced in a statement. The exposure occurred from the duo’s personal barber who had an inconclusive test followed by two positive tests, according to a […]

Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Philadelphia 76ers teammates Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons are uncertain for Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game in Atlanta after contact with a barber, who potentially has contracted the coronavirus, sources told ESPN. The barber, located in the Philadelphia area, is undergoing additional testing Sunday because of an inconclusive positive test, sources said. […]