Harlan Schreiber

NBA Preview 2009-10: Southeast Division

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The Southeast is an interesting new fangled division.  Since the NBA switched to a three-division format, the Southeast has been the shallowest in terms of talent.  While they have had some nice teams (2004-06 Heat and the 2008-09 Magic), the rest of the teams in the division have varied from middling to bad.  2008-09, however, was the first year that the division managed to have three teams over .500.  The division should be even a little better this year as Washington will be improved and … [Read more...] about NBA Preview 2009-10: Southeast Division

NBA Preview 2009-10: Central Division

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Turning to the Central, we see the same pattern we saw in the Atlantic.  One title contender (Cleveland) and a whole bunch of maybes.  While the Central doesn't look like it will have any truly horrible teams it also has plenty of also-rans.  The also-rans are varying degrees of interesting from very (Chicago) to not so much (Milwaukee).  Let's see how it all shakes out:  1.    Cleveland Cavaliers:    By most accounts, the Cavs seemed to be the best team in 2008-09.  They had the most wins, … [Read more...] about NBA Preview 2009-10: Central Division

NBA Preview 2009-10: Atlantic Division

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We're only weeks away from another exciting NBA season.  We thought this would be a good time to get going with a division-by-division preview and see what we have to expect.  Sure, predictions are fraught with issues.  Facts (and rosters) will change between now and April 2010, which will render some of what we see moot (think Billups, Chauncey and Detroit Pistons last year) but doesn't mean it isn't fun to chew up what we have so far.  As a fun bonus, we'll give you our All-Decade starting … [Read more...] about NBA Preview 2009-10: Atlantic Division

Quick Thoughts

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I know it's exciting that training camps are open and players are playing actual basketball but actual news is quite hard to come by.  We'll have full NBA previews coming in the next few weeks but we thought we'd tide you over with a little bit of basketball talk.  We often associate a particular position with a particular player (i.e. Magic Johnson at the point in the 1980s or Michael Jordan at shooting guard forever).  We were wondering whether our mental associations comport with the stats.  … [Read more...] about Quick Thoughts

Transactions 7/10-9/22 Part III

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Phoenix Suns  7/13    Signed Channing Frye 7/20    Signed Steve Nash to a two-year contract extension 9/15    Waived Sasha Pavlovic  As we mentioned in the Dallas comments last week, point guards tend not to age well.  On the bright side, most of the ones who have aged well have done so in recent years, a good indicator for Nash.  Indeed, despite all the talk of Nash's durability years ago, he hasn't missed more than 12 games in a season since 1999-00.  The stat line has gone down a … [Read more...] about Transactions 7/10-9/22 Part III

Transactions 7/10-9/22 Part II

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Golden State Warriors  7/27    Waived Jermareo Davidson 7/30    Traded Marco Belinelli to Toronto for Devean George and cash 9/2      Signed Mikki Moore 9/15    NBA fines Stephen Jackson $25,000 for making public statements detrimental to the NBA  On the surface, Belinelli for George is a "who cares" type of trade.  Their salaries are pretty close but Belinelli is young and potentially useful as a designated shooter, while George is the definition of filler.  It's not clear why … [Read more...] about Transactions 7/10-9/22 Part II

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