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2026 NBA Finals Prediction

After an interesting playoffs where I got almost none of my predictions correct (I only had one Conference Finals team correct, which was OKC, and they didn’t even make the Finals), we have finally reached the NBA Finals, where we will get a matchup between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks!  I think this will be an exciting series with the two teams matching up well, even with two totally different paths to this point (the only team that gave New York trouble was a talented Atlanta team, while San Antonio is coming off a 7-game series and has played 18 games during the playoffs thus far). I am interested to see the matchups that both teams use.   I think the most intriguing one will be what the Knicks do with Victor Wembanyama.   While I believe the best bet is to have OG Anunoby on Wemby, I don’t expect that they will trot this matchup out immediately (nor should they).   If they utilize Karl-Anthony Towns on Wemby, but Towns is not a good defender, e...
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2026 WNBA Season Preview

After another exciting offseason and draft process, the 2026 WNBA season is upon us!  In this post, I included predictions for the standings, playoffs, and awards (I included top-3 for each award, though most only have one vote per award instead of 3), while also including an analysis of each team.  In the analysis, I also included an X-Factor who is a role player who could make a big impact for the team.  As a note, I discussed players who might have been waived from teams since I wrote most of these predictions and analyses prior to the final wave of cuts that occurred; my apologies about any confusion upon reading these and not seeing any players in the roster.     Predicted Standings Las Vegas Aces New York Liberty Atlanta Dream Indiana Fever Los Angeles Sparks Minnesota Lynx Phoenix Mercury Dallas Wings Golden State Valkyries Chicago Sky Washington Mystics Toronto Raptors Connecticut Sun Seattle Storm Portland Fire ...
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2026 WNBA Draft Grades

The WNBA Draft is in the books, and it was very eventful!  There was one trade and a lot of interesting picks and surprises, including a first-round pick of someone I didn’t think would be drafted.  I included my grades below.  Something worth noting is that my grades typically favor if the pick makes sense for the team versus what I think of the player, though this is also accounted for.   Atlanta Dream Drafted Madina Okot (13) Indya Nivar (28) Kejia Ran (43) I didn’t think Atlanta needed to do a ton entering the draft, but I thought they did a good job building their depth.  I really like the selection of Okot for Atlanta.  While she is really raw, especially with her passing and shooting, she is an impressive defender, finisher, and rebounder with amazing size.  It’s not surprising that she is raw since she didn’t play basketball until 2020, but she is much more raw than most players her age due to this; as such, I am a little nervous ...
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2026 NBA Playoff Predictions

We have reached the end of the NBA regular season, meaning that the playoffs are finally here!  Now that we know the 7 and 8 seeds in each conference, we can finally make predictions!  I think there will be several series that are going to be competitive at the minimum and exciting at the maximum.  For each round, I gave some analysis, an X-Factor for each series who is not a star, and my prediction.     1 st Round East   1 Detroit Pistons vs. 8 Orlando Magic Congratulations Orlando, you somehow managed to make the playoffs after throwing up all over yourselves to fall to the 8 seed!   In all seriousness, they’re not a bad team, but they’re not great; they’re offense isn’t as good as it feels like it should be and their defense took a dip from last year.   On the other hand, Detroit feels like a better version of what Orlando wants to be in every way.   I don’t see Orlando standing a chance here. X-Factor : Tobias Harris got ...
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