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FIBA's continental club competition.
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The European national-team championship.
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Liga ACB
Spain's domestic league.
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Italy's domestic league.
Basketball Bundesliga
Germany's domestic league.
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Turkey's domestic league.
NBL
Australia and New Zealand's professional league.
CBA
China's domestic professional league.
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The short-format game, now an Olympic discipline.
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Basketball analysis, features & blogs
Tactics · Analysis
Why spacing, not scoring, decides modern basketball
The three-point line did not simply add points. It rearranged where players are allowed to stand, and everything a modern offence does follows from that.
4 min read
The season · Feature
The long season problem
A regular season long enough to be fair is also long enough to be ignored. That tension shapes almost every argument about the modern NBA calendar.
3 min read
Postseason · Analysis
Playoff defence is a different sport
A seven-game series lets a defence study one opponent until it finds the thing that opponent cannot do. That is why regular-season offence rarely survives contact with spring.
3 min read
Opinion · Blog
The load management argument never ends, and both sides are right
Opinion: the person who paid for a ticket and the coach protecting a season are arguing about different things, and neither is being unreasonable.
3 min read
Opinion · Blog
Judge players by their role, not by their counting stats
Opinion: totals tell you what a player was asked to do as much as how well they did it, and most arguments about who is better are really arguments about job descriptions.
3 min read
Coaching · Analysis
The modern head coach is a manager of attention, not a play-caller
Most possessions are not decided by a diagrammed set. They are decided by where a coach has trained ten eyes to look, and that is a harder job to see from the stands.
3 min read
Rebounding · Analysis
Rebounding is a positioning problem long before it is a jumping problem
The highlight is always the leap. The rebound was usually decided two seconds earlier, by a body that got where it needed to be first.
3 min read
Transition · Analysis
Transition offense starts on the defensive end, not the fast break
The fastest points in basketball are earned before the ball changes hands, in the decisions a team makes about the shot it is about to give up.
3 min read
Officiating · Analysis
What referees are actually optimizing for, and why fans misread it
A whistle is not a verdict on justice. It is a judgment, made in real time, about which mistake is more costly to let stand — and that framing explains most complaints about consistency.
3 min read
Roster construction · Analysis
Why two-star rosters keep outperforming three-star ones
A roster is a budget of shots, minutes and shot-creation responsibility. Past a certain point, adding another elite scorer does not add value, it subtracts it from someone else.
3 min read
Pace · Analysis
Pace is a strategic choice, not a fixed team personality
Commentators talk about pace as though it were temperament. It is closer to a lever a coaching staff pulls deliberately, possession by possession, based on who they have and who they are facing.
3 min read
Development · Feature
Player development is mostly invisible, which is why it is misjudged
The improvement that actually changes a career rarely happens on the court in front of a camera. It happens in a gym at an hour nobody is watching, and the public only sees the result months later.
3 min read
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