Jared Johnson

Four months of no basketball games naturally means that many of the NBA players in Orlando playing in scrimmage games right now are going to be rusty. Turnover numbers are higher than usual and there has been lots of poor shooting.more…

NBA action is back! Scrimmage action kicked off on Wednesday in Orlando as teams started to warm up for the official season restart, which begins on July 30.

With 11 total games in themore…

The NBA’s Orlando bubble experiment is in full swing. All 22 teams participating in the league’s restart are now staying at their hotels in Disney World and are proceeding with practices and workouts.

Not every player on thosemore…

“Disappointment” is the word that could best sum up the New York Knicks over the past 50 years or so. New York last won a championship in 1973 and has faced repeated playoff heartbreak, especially in the 1990s.

More recently, though, the Knicks haven’tmore…

The Minnesota Timberwolves had a very disappointing 2019-20 season. The team started strong with a 10-8 record behind the contributions of Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Wiggins and Robert Covington. From there, though, the team lost 37 of its next 46 games before the season was suspended, bringing itsmore…

Between the 2014-15 and 2018-19 seasons, the Golden State Warriors won a total of 322 regular seasons, setting an NBA record for most wins in a five-year span. The Warriors won three NBA championships and made it to the NBA Finals in the other two years of that run.more…

The Detroit Pistons were one of the saddest teams to watch in the NBA this season.

They had just a 20-46 record in a campaign where their supposed best player (Blake Griffin) looked like amore…

In case it wasn’t obvious, the Cleveland Cavaliers miss LeBron James.

Since the 2005-06 season, James has played nine seasons with the team. Cleveland made the playoffs in all nine of those seasons and won a total of 21 playoff series withmore…

A once-proud Chicago Bulls franchise has, unfortunately, taken a big turn for the worse in the past few years. Following nine straight years without a single losing season, the Bulls have won fewer than 34 percent of their games in each of the last three seasons. The team’s management and coaching staff havemore…

The Charlotte Hornets entered a new era of basketball in the 2019-20 season. A team that had long been mediocre lost its only star player (Kemba Walker) as well as its second-leading scorer (Jeremy Lamb) in free agency. Charlotte signed guard Terry Rozier to a big three-year deal, but he had never been a full-time starter before.more…

The Atlanta Hawks had a disappointing season in 2019-20. Despite a superstar offensive campaign from sophomore point guard Trae Young (29.6 points and 9.3 assists per game), the young roster struggled to support him on offense and couldn’t do enough tomore…

An NBA player’s team situation can have a major effect on his impact. I think fans sometimes underestimate how important it is for a player to have a team that is truly maximizing his skills from a personnel and strategic standpoint.more…

Players need to be skilled in a variety of areas to make it to the NBA. Basketball is far too complex for players just to focus on one or two aspects of the game in practice.

That said, there are players whomore…

All NBA players are unique and have been created differently. There are always going to be certain factors that separate even the most similar of players.

That said, there’s a reason whymore…

We don’t often think about it this way, but the NBA is a league where dreams come true. All of the league’s players were, at one time, young boys who aspired to become some of the greatest basketball players in the world.

Unfortunately, not every player who enters the league hasmore…

Earlier this week, USAbetting highlighted several players in today’s NBA who are out of place. Their impact would have been greater playing in an earlier era of the league’s history.

Today, it’s time for me tomore…

NBA fans compare players across eras all the time. Whenever we do that, though, it’s important to consider the impact of the overall talent level and style of play that characterized each era.

Today, USAbetting pinpoints six players currently inmore…

For more than one-quarter of the NBA’s players, the 2019-20 season is done. As the league plans to resume in late July in Orlando, Florida with 22 of the 30 teams, players from the other eight teams now have plenty of time to work on their games for next season. Those players will end up getting an offseason period thatmore…

The NBA is a league controlled by superstars. More often than not, a team with more star power will win a playoff series against a team with less star power. There are many opportunities for talented individuals to take over a 48-minute basketball game, especially inmore…

Last updated August 10th, 2020

The NBA is restarting on July 31 with eight games for 22 of the 30 teams before the playoffs start. Eight games may not seem like that many, but since the teams will be playing lots of games against opponents that are close to them in the standings, they will count for a lot.more…

The NBA’s altered format to finish the 2019-20 season includes 22 teams that will reconvene in late July to finish the season. Unfortunately, that means the other eight teams will have to go almost nine months between games, since the 2020-21 campaign ismore…

The NBA has finally announced its plan for restarting the 2019-20 season. Starting July 31, the league will bring only the teams currently in playoff positioning or within six games of a playoff spot to Orlando, Florida to resume the season.more…

The NBA playoffs are all but a sure thing now. The league is working on plans to resume the season at the end of July in Orlando at the Walt Disney World Resort, likely with some sort of play-in tournament before the playoffs start.more…

NBA teams with two great players are at a massive advantage when it comes to winning basketball games. Every once in a while, though, a team with three great players comes along and looks unstoppable.

Today’s task is figuring outmore…

It is not possible to win consistently in the NBA with just one superstar and a mediocre supporting cast. If you have two superstars, though, then your chances get a whole lot better.

Throughout the NBA’s history, fans havemore…

The NBA has crowned 20 champions since the start of the new millennium. All of these champions were great teams, but they excelled in varying ways and to differing degrees.

So which title-winning squad ranks as the best ofmore…

Redrafting the 2019 NBA draft class less than one year after they were originally drafted is a very difficult task. At most, we have seen only three-fourths of a season from each of them, and most of them did not play big minutes. Some of them missed time due to injury or played mostly in the G-League. Others are inmore…

Sports fans all over the world have enjoyed watching “The Last Dance” over the past five weeks. It was an in-depth documentary on the Chicago Bulls career of NBA legend Michael Jordan that uncovered all sorts of behind-the-scene video footage and stories from his time in Chicago.more…

The 2018 NBA draft class is bursting at the seams with talent. Luka Doncic is obviously the class headliner with his MVP-caliber play in just his second season in the NBA. However, dozens of others players from this year have already established themselves as valuable role players in their sophomore years. Some evenmore…

The 2017 NBA draft class has churned out many of the NBA’s best young players, but they haven’t been the ones you might have expected. The strength of the class at the time of the draft was point guards, as five of the top nine original picks played that position. However, players from a variety of positions andmore…