Longform pieces about the roster on this site and the league around it. Most recent at the top.
The 2025-26 season was LeBron's 23rd. He spent it passing his own records while already a Hall of Famer.
Read →Amar'e Stoudemire was the only male player elected to the 2026 Naismith class. A closer look at his case.
Read →D'Antoni never won a championship. The league he is leaving behind looks more like his teams than anyone else's.
Read →The ring count is the most-used comparison tool in basketball. It is also one of the least informative ones we have.
Read →Karl Malone won. Michael Jordan didn't. Thirty years on, the defense of the choice has quietly gotten stronger.
Read →Five positions used to describe five real roles. Since the late 1980s, every decade has loosened the meaning.
Read →The standard Pippen argument focuses on what he did with Jordan. The interesting argument is about what Pippen did when Jordan was gone.
Read →The standard era-adjustment argument against Russell's 11 championships overstates its case.
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