Cookout Takeaways: Rockets, Wemby, Flagg and the Lakers' Real Needs
By Vince Carter · Nov 10, 2026 The Table Was Set Before Tip-Off Somewhere around the second week of November, the NBA turns into a cookout w...
Hoops, Analytics, and Heart: Join the Collective
Breaking Down the Game, Building Up the Conversation
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The 48-Hour Heart Monitor: Breaking Down NBA Free Agency's Wildest Stretch
By Vince Carter Free agency doesn't move like a river. It moves like a heart monitor: drips and drabs, then a deluge, then you're standing i...
The Jalen Brunson Blueprint and Everything That Comes Next
By Vince Carter New York waited fifty-three years. The median household median in 1973, the last time the Knicks held a championship, was $1...
THE DECLASSIFIED PAPERS: LeBron's Midwest Proxy War, Front Office Treason, and the Brutal Truth About Your Playoff Contender
By Vince Carter THE DECLASSIFIED PAPERS: EPISODE 1 THE TIP-OFF I hit the desk a few times before we started recording today. The coffee was ...
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...
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...