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Doc Rivers called coaching Giannis “difficult” and questioned his basketball IQ on The Bill Simmons Podcast. Was it fair, or did he go too far? Our take. (FRPC: Thoughts Over Takes) In this segment of the Front Runner Podcast Collective, we break down Doc Rivers’ comments about Giannis Antetokounmpo...
Summary: The standings will lie to you in November, but the film and the numbers won’t. We kick things off in Houston, where the Rockets look like a real playoff team and still manage to recreate the same late-game problems that haunted them before: slow half-court offense, shaky crunch-time shot qu...
Summary: A rookie talking trash to Luka Doncic in his first NBA game sounds like a career speedrun to embarrassment, until the same rookie turns around and drops 37 on elite efficiency. We’re in the film room on Yaxel Lundenberg’s first-week chaos, asking two questions that actually matter for Warri...
Summary: Steph Curry just gave us a reminder that gravity is real, Victor Wembanyama is sprinting toward superstardom, and Nikola Jokic hit 200 career triple doubles like it was a routine check-in. We kick off NBA Cup night by putting those performances under a microscope, not just to celebrate them...
Summary: The Southwest is supposed to be a division you can sum up in a sentence. We don’t do that here. We go team by team, win total by win total, and ask the only question that matters for NBA over/unders: how does this roster actually get there, and what has to break right for it to happen? We s...