Is "Baller" Trademarked Yet?

After an exciting offseason and draft process, the 2024 WNBA season is upon us!  In this post, I included predictions for the standings, playoffs, and awards, 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.   Standings 1.       Las Vegas Aces 2.       New York Liberty 3.       Seattle Storm 4.       Connecticut Sun 5.       Atlanta Dream 6.       Phoenix Mercury 7.       Minnesota Lynx 8.       Indiana...

Every year, I release 3 mock drafts prior to the NBA Draft, and this is the first!  While there has been a lot of commentary on the fact that this is considered a weak draft class and it is possible that there are no franchise altering players in this class, there are still several players who are really interesting and could play a large role for a team.  All of my drafts are aggregates of several drafts and are intended to give an idea of what the draft is looking like at this point in time (while I would love it if I am right on several picks in the mock, there’s movement that I won’t know about until during the draft).   While I account for need in certain picks (more so in the first round, especially the lottery), these are not a reflection of what I think of each pick or how I would rank the prospects.   The picks are divided into three sections:   for the lottery, I provided vitals, in depth analysis, comparison, and the fit with the team.   For th...