The Return: San Antonio's Arrival, Draft Roulette & The Laker Blueprint
By Vince Carter Hiatus Over... Time to dust off the mic! The mics finally went hot this past Tuesday. Vince had been holding in six months o...
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Who Sits On the Throne: Thunder’s New Dynasty, Nova Knicks Dilemma, Celtics Tank Temptation & Lakers Succession
By Vince Carter The Center of the NBA Universe Runs Through Oklahoma City” I live in Los Angeles. I hear the Lakers noise every day. Seven-g...
Purple Thrones, Tankapalooza & The Maxey Era: Lakers’ $10B Power Shift, 2026 NBA Draft Wars, and Tyrese Maxey’s 54-Point Takeover
By Vince Carter The Promise: Jerry’s Succession Plan That Never Happened When people talk about the Lakers, they usually skip straight to th...
NBA Youth Movement 2025: Wemby’s Injury, Maxey’s Leap, Clippers Collapse, and the Pistons’ Surprise Takeover
By Vince Carter Life Without Wemby: San Antonio’s First Real Infrastructure Check Subhead: A 22-year-old putting up MVP math is on the shelf...
The Timeline Issue: Cooper Flagg vs. AD, OKC’s Juggernaut, Jokic’s ‘Make Him Score’ Game, and Mouths That Wrote Bad Checks
By Vince Carter Dallas at the Fork in the Road: Cooper Flagg or One More AD Run? The Dallas Mavericks finally have clarity, and none of it i...
Built Different or Built to Break: What This Season’s Taught Us So Far
By Vince Carter and FRPC Contributors The Week the West Got Weird The West never stays still, it mutates. One week it’s the Lakers’ developm...
The Season Starts Loud: Scandals, Statements, with SGA and a Wembanyama Statement
By Vince Carter and FRPC Contributors Opening: what’s coming + how we built it (pre-pro notes) Today’s companion blog mirrors the pod’s arc:...
NBA’s Opening Week: Preview and Predictions
By Vince Carter + FRPC Contributors 🏀 Oklahoma City Thunder: “The Habit Merchants” In the pre-production room, there was no talk of regress...
Cavs Last Ride, Life Hits Pistons, Bucks Hanging On, While Pacers and Bulls Are in Different Types Of Purgatory!
By Vince Carter Chicago Bulls: Still Checked In at St. Denis Medical “Chicago is a team that is middling, literally…” You could almost hear ...