The Jaylen Brown Solar System, Luka's 600-Point Month, and the Expansion Delusion
By Vince Carter THE HOSTILE TAKEOVER Ooof!!! I practically choked on my own words opening the mic today. To sit there, look directly into th...
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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...
Turbulence and Temperament: The NBA’s November Identity Crisis
By Vince Carter and FRPC Contributors Baseline Buzz: Dallas Mavericks: Déjà Vu in Big D Let’s go ahead and say it, the Cooper Flagg point gu...
NBA Storylines That Matter: Ja’s Lost Joy, Brooklyn’s Gunners, and the Central’s Quiet Revolution
By Vince Carter and FRPC Contributors The Joy Recession: When Your Smile Becomes Your Strategy Ja Morant & the Memphis Grizzlies | FRPC ...
Northwest Division: Optionality, Mentorship, Bandwidth, Certainty, Dynasty Math
By Vince Carter UTAH JAZZ: The Optionality Gambit (or: “Hold the Line, Stack the Levers”) The Northwest is a pressure cooker for team-buildi...