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LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 31: Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors and Chris Paul #3 of the Los Angeles Clippers look for a rebound at Staples Center on March 31, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)

Weekend Back-To-Backs: Pacific Division

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We’ve covered five NBA divisions, so here’s the last one. Our survey of weekend back-to-backs arrives at its final divisional installment, as we look at the Pacific Division. We’ll continue to have more on this subject, but we’ll present accumulated totals and big-picture observations on a league-wide scale. For now, let’s examine the Pacific Division, […]

The Smartest NBA Players Of All Time Have Not Performed Well On TV

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No one more intuitively understood the movements of basketball players within the live flow of the game more than Earvin “Magic” Johnson. No more more completely grasped everything it takes to win a championship than Bill Russell. No player married longevity with quality better than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Producing substantially as a core member of a […]

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Weekend Back-To-Backs: Southwest Division

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There’s no better or deeper division in the NBA than the Southwest, although the Central at least deserves a place in the conversation. (If the Pacers can join the Bulls, Cavs and Bucks in the playoff parade, that discussion will intensify next spring.) Our survey of weekend back-to-backs has revealed so many fascinating differences between […]

Philadelphia 76ers: 2015-2016 Schedule Analysis

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I’ve looked at the Sixers’ newly released schedule quite often since it was released last Wednesday. It’s a fairly typical schedule, with only a few things worth noting. Here are the things I picked out to analyze: The Sixers have zero nationally televised games this season. However, they play twice on NBA TV. Those games […]

5 Low Points In the History of the NBA on TV

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Even today, it seems that a 9:05 or 9:10 p.m. Eastern time start to an NBA Finals game is a little too late. Yes, people live on the West Coast — I’m one of them, here in Seattle — but is it really asking too much to have an NBA Finals game (and an NCAA […]

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Weekend Back-To-Backs: Northwest Division

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Our survey of weekend back-to-backs has moved through the Eastern Conference. Today, we begin the Western Conference with a look at the not-so-accurately-named Northwest Division. It’s not “Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers in the old NFC West” bad, but it’s still bad, with Minnesota and Oklahoma City — those two noted Northwestern locales — accompanying […]

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5 Highly Improbable Facts About The History Of the NBA On TV

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The NBA “Best Of Summer Tour” is taking a brief break. Crossover Chronicles senior writer Joe Manganiello — also an AP Party contributor — covers Syracuse football for the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times and has business to tend to this week. He’ll be back in a few days. In the meantime, we’re going to take something […]

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Weekend Back-To-Backs: Southeast Division

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Before we move to the next division in our survey of weekend back-to-backs for the 2015-2016 NBA schedule, let’s pause for a moment. If you read our Atlantic and Central Division pieces on this issue — with layouts of all the weekend back-to-backs teams face in the coming season — you noticed that there are […]

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Weekend Back-To-Backs: Central Division

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For a primer on weekend back-to-backs — which we’re examining for the next several days here at Crossover Chronicles — consult our first piece on the Atlantic Division. We now move, without any fanfare whatsoever, to the Central Division. * WEEKEND BACK-TO-BACKS: CENTRAL DIVISION CHICAGO BULLS Sunday, Jan. 31: at LAC, 3:30 Eastern Monday, Feb. […]

Weekend Back-To-Backs: Atlantic Division

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All this week at Crossover Chronicles, we’re going to unpack a specific component of the NBA schedule. It is widely — I’d say universally — acknowledged that the league and commissioner Adam Silver have done a very good job of improving the schedule in terms of easing the amount of stress and strain placed on […]

An NBA Finals Reminder: Quality And Length Are Two Different Things

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It’s something I have written about when covering major-tournament tennis at Bloguin site Attacking The Net.  It’s very much worth repeating on a day when Joe Manganiello and I have explored the best NBA Finals series of all time here at Crossover Chronicles: The length of a sporting event is not the central manifestation or determinant […]

AUBURN HILLS, MI – JUNE 15: (L-R) Head Coach Larry Brown, Richard Hamilton #32, Ben Wallace #3, Chauncey Billups #1 and Rasheed Wallace #30 of the Detroit Pistons pose with the championship trophy after Game Five of the 2004 NBA Finals on June 15, 2004 at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2004 NBAE. (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)

The 5 Biggest NBA Finals Upsets Of All Time

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The NBA has almost always been a heavyweight league in a way the NHL has not been able to follow. It’s not as though the NHL hasn’t cultivated its share of dynastic teams, but in hockey, being the top seed (or even the number two seed) in the conference playoffs is hardly a guarantee of […]

NBA Schedule Analysis: A First Look At Back-To-Backs And 4-In-5s

0 comments by on 8/14/2015

There’s a lot more to be said — and a lot more research to perform — on the twin topics that dominate NBA schedule releases at this point in the league’s existence: back-to-backs and 4-in-5s. We’ll slowly unroll our examination of this topic, adding more details over a period of weeks, but let’s at least […]

The Golden State Warriors Are Still Really Smart

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This is a story about the value of every minor detail. Good professionals — people paid to do one thing well, and who generally succeed in the attempt — learn very early in their careers, no matter what they do, that if they tend to the little details, the quality of their work improves. In […]

NBA Schedule Analysis: Day Games

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The number of day games on any relatively recent NBA schedule is rather small. Rarely will you see an NBA team reach as many as 12 day games in the regular season. This makes sense on several levels but is surprising in others. What makes sense: With red-eye plane flights and disordered sleep schedules in […]

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