Is "Baller" Trademarked Yet?

The WNBA Draft is in the books, and now that I have finally gotten my ducks in a row, I am ready to discuss the grades!  While it was an interesting draft with multiple storylines, I also thought that it was a weak draft after who I thought were the top 3 players in the draft (with two, Paige Bueckers and Dominique Molonga, being the top 2 picks, and a third, Shyanne Sellers, falling to the second round).  A big part of this is due to players with eligibility waiting to see the result of next year’s new collective bargaining agreement. With my grades, I did not penalize teams if I thought they should have taken a different player (in that situation, everyone who passed on Sellers after the first two picks would have gotten a worse grade than they did), but focused on the player they did pick and what I thought about the selection and fit.   With my grades, there isn’t an exact formula, but I prioritized first round picks, then second round picks, and then third round pi...

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 (for some reason, I waited until after the Memphis-Dallas game before I wrote that first round analysis; I quickly realized how stupid of a decision that was, since I don’t have much going into that series), 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 (or in the case of OKC-Memphis, some suggestions for days when Memphis can look into booking their ticket to Cancun), an X-Factor for each series who is not a star (there is one team where I ran out of players who I think will provide big minutes, so I included a potential Defensive Player of the Year candidate who isn’t viewed as a star outside of their market), and my prediction.   First Round East 1 Cleveland Cavaliers vs....