0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/26/2015
We’ve analyzed various components of the 2015-2016 NBA schedule here at Crossover Chronicles over the past few weeks. Weekend back-to-backs. Overall back-to-backs. 4-in-5s. Day games. The three-game lottery. Scheduling successes and scheduling errors. We’ve covered a lot of ground. From our research, without any added editorializing or explanations, here are 30 facts to take away […]
0 comments by CC Locker
Haven’t the Rockets tormented the Clippers enough? Well, this wasn’t a collection of basketball Rockets which angered Angelinos in the midnight hour last night. Oh, there were rockets in the greater Los Angeles area last night, but as was the case in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals, James Harden was sitting there and […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Earlier we showed you the top 100 plays of the 2015 NBA season. Now let’s take a look at the top 100 dunks….
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 8/25/2015
There was a time when many considered Michael Kidd-Gilchrist the player least likely to be a bust from the 2012 NBA Draft. That was part of the reason few batted an eye when the (then) Charlotte Bobcats selected him with the second overall pick in the draft. Fast-forward a few years (and a name change) […]
0 comments by Sean Woodley
Can’t wait for the 2015-’16 season to start? We neither. Now that most of the off-season’s major moves are complete, we’ll dive into some ludicrously premature predictions for next season. In the coming days and weeks we’ll attempt to project the standings in each conference, five teams at a time, before trying to lock down […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/24/2015
We have arrived at the final installment of our extended series on weekend back-to-backs in the NBA. This issue came to our attention when we noticed the disparities in day games (almost exclusively on weekends, of course) on the new schedule. We defined the parameters of a weekend back-to-back, establishing what represented a properly-handled or […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/23/2015
The past week, we’ve broken down the number of weekend back-to-backs (defined as Saturday-Sunday or Sunday-Monday) for all 30 NBA teams, separating our research by division. We’re almost at the end of this project, but we have two more installments left. We shift into an overview of this topic, split into two parts. In part […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/22/2015
I thought for multiple days how I was going to write this article, and when sitting down to compile a few video clips and links to supplement my writing, the amount of material I came across was so substantial that I was ambushed. I was ambushed by the realization that I didn’t have to write […]
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0 comments by Matt Zemek
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, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/21/2015
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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0 comments by Matt Zemek
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 […]
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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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/20/2015
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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0 comments by Matt Zemek
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 […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
Phil Jackson was once remembered as being one of — if not the — best coaches in the history of basketball. Yet, that was “forever” ago: way before social media, and especially before he took over the duties of trying to make the incompetent New York Knicks slightly more competent. Jackson aimed to do this […]
