JACK'S BALL BLOG

As we hit the New Year, I wanted to present thoughts on each team. Atlanta Hawks The Trae Young era is over in Atlanta. With Young on the court this season, The Hawks net rating is -7.5, which would be 28th in the league, and their defensive rating is 129.2, which is 5.9 worse points per 100 possessions than last place Washington. They are 2-8 in games he has played this season and 13-11 without him. This isn’t even Ewing Theory anymore, the Hawks are not only better without

Christmas time is here and the NBA slate is stacked with 5 fun games, so I am going to dive into each of them and what to expect on the biggest day on the NBA regular season calendar. Cavaliers at Knicks, Noon EST The first game of the day is the only one that includes Eastern Conference teams. Coming into the season, it was projected that Cleveland and New York would be the two best teams in the Eastern Conference. The Knicks are living up to the billing, I wrote about them

The New York Knicks are NBA champions… well, NBA Cup champions. That is not what we are here to talk about but congrats to the end of the bench guys who made over $500,000 for winning it. Them winning the cup was not an accident like it maybe was for the Bucks or Lakers when they won. No, the New York Knicks are really good and should be heavy favorites in the Eastern Conference. When the Knicks fired Tom Thibodeau it was for a few reasons but one of them was to make their o

The unofficial start to the NBA trade season is Monday because on December 15th about 80 players who signed free agent deals this offseason can be traded. There probably won’t be a deal on Monday (though Dennis Schroder was traded last year) but it is still fun to talk about deals. I am going to go through a few teams who might most define the trade season. Make sure you read my breakdown of the Giannis trade sweepstakes from last week. Celtics Let’s start with one of the sur