Is "Baller" Trademarked Yet?

While there are always role players that are valuable in the NBA, there have been certain players who are legends despite not being the traditional high-scoring stars.  Usually, these types of players are defensive superstars (such as Ben Wallace or Dikembe Mutombo), elite playmakers (Rajon Rondo), are able to do a variety of things while helping the IQ of a team (Andre Iguodala), or have mastered one particular skillset (Dennis Rodman with rebounding).  Occasionally there is a player who falls under several of these (with all due respect to Rondo, I think he was an overrated defender who got lucky with steals); Draymond Green is a great example of this, but even he is rarely better than the third best player on a championship level team.  Historically, these types of players are not the best on a competitive team. In the WNBA, efficiency has also not been as much a priority as it has been in the NBA in recent years.   While there have been several players who were...

Now that the 2023 NBA Draft has passed, I have my grades for the draft.  I grade each team based on all their picks since I don’t think it’s fair to grade picks independent of each other.  Any move that did not involve draft picks will not be included in the grades (for instance, the Bradley Beal trade will not be included in this post).  In an interesting twist, there weren’t any teams that had a day which I strongly disliked, as every team had at least one reasonable selection.  As a note, I don't typically penalize a team for not drafting a player that I'm higher on (for instance, I didn't penalize teams for passing on Cam Whitmore) since I figure they have more information about them than I do, especially regarding medical records.   Atlanta Hawks Drafted ·          Kobe Bufkin (15) ·          Mouhamed Gueye (39) ·          Seth Lundy...