Ben Couch

Atlanta

Director, Editorial Content - NBA Digital at NBA.com

Dir. Editorial Content @nba | Formerly: MLS ⚽️, NYK/🗽/BKN 🏀. Went from the minors to the ⚾️ Hall in 3 seasons. ✡️ @viewfromcouch everywhere social

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Horry Scale: Dyson Daniels, Caris LeVert track down game-winner

1 month ago | nba.com | Ben Couch

A reminder on The Horry Scale: It breaks down a game-winning buzzer-beater (GWBB) in the categories of difficulty, game situation (was the team tied or behind at the time?), importance (playoff game or garden-variety night in November?) and celebration. Then we give it an overall grade on a scale of 1-5 Robert Horrys, named for the patron saint of last-second answered prayers. * * *February just finished, but for the Grizzlies, every day is Groundhog Day.
Key storylines: Top-tier talent will be available in 2025 NBA Draft

Oct 12, 2024 | nba.com | Ben Couch

• Get NBA League Pass TODAY >We’re counting down 24 key storylines heading into the 2024-25 NBA season. Our senior analysts will dissect a new topic each day as we help you get ready for opening night on Oct. 22. Here is storyline No. 9:Everyone saw the highlights and read the stories. You’d have to be under an NBA rock not to know that the stakes are high for Duke freshman Cooper Flagg. And he’s not alone.
Key storylines: Can maturing Magic maintain momentum of steady growth?

Oct 10, 2024 | nba.com | Ben Couch

• Get NBA League Pass TODAY >We’re counting down 24 key storylines heading into the 2024-25 NBA season. Our senior analysts will dissect a new topic each day as we help you get ready for opening night on Oct. 22. Here is storyline No. 11:22. 34. 47. Three seasons. A 25-game improvement. A seven-game slugfest during the first taste of playoff action.
Key storylines: Is a Finals run within reach for Anthony Edwards and Timberwolves?

Oct 5, 2024 | nba.com | Ben Couch

• Get NBA League Pass TODAY >We’re counting down 24 key storylines heading into the 2024-25 NBA season. Our senior analysts will dissect a new topic each day as we help you get ready for opening night on Oct. 22. Here is storyline No. 16:For the Timberwolves, anything short of a trip to the NBA Finals is a step backward, right? After a shaky first season, the Rudy Gobert trade has played about as well as could be expected, and suddenly that pick haul to the Utah Jazz doesn’t seem quite so steep.
Key storylines: This dark horse team could crash the postseason party

Oct 4, 2024 | nba.com | Ben Couch

• Get NBA League Pass TODAY >We’re counting down 24 key storylines heading into the 2024-25 NBA season. Our senior analysts will dissect a new topic each day as we help you get ready for opening night on Oct. 22. Here is storyline No. 17:This dark horse team could spoil everyone’s postseason predictions.
3 takeaways: Trades and more trades in 2nd round of 2024 NBA Draft

Jun 27, 2024 | nba.com | Ben Couch

• Draft Board• Prospect profiles• Team overviews• Download the NBA App1. Time for trades (and trades … and trades)With a fresh, two-day format for the 2024 NBA Draft, the league’s basketball executives clearly came ready with renewed vigor.
Spotlighting 10 second-round picks from every year since 2014

Jun 27, 2024 | nba.com | Ben Couch

• Draft Board• Prospect profiles• Team overviews• Download the NBA AppWith the first round of the 2024 NBA Draft now complete, all eyes turn toward the ESPN Seaport Studios, where the second set of selections will be made Thursday afternoon (4 ET, ESPN). How might teams fare as they look further down their Draft boards? Pretty well! There’s starting-quality talent to be found, year in and year out. The trick becomes identifying it — missing here hurts less, but every gain is an advantage.
5 Takeaways from Round 1 of the 2024 NBA Draft

Jun 26, 2024 | nba.com | Ben Couch

1. France plants a flagAs expected, Zaccharie Risacher and Alex Sarr went back-to-back atop the 2024 NBA Draft, marking the second straight season a French player went No. 1 overall. And then Tidjane Salaun shot up to No. 6, selected by the Hornets to make this the first time a non-U.S. country produced three top 10 picks in the same Draft. They were joined by Pacome Dadiet, who went No. 25 overall to the Knicks. “That’s amazing,” Risacher said.
Consensus Mock Draft: Final update before 1st round begins

Jun 25, 2024 | nba.com | Ben Couch

• Complete 2024 NBA Draft orderSome notes in our final look at the mock drafts from around the web before the 2024 NBA Draft presented by State Farm, where the the Atlanta Hawks are on the clock with the No. 1 pick. The Consensus Mock Draft is a compilation of the best mock drafts around the web. We bring them together to provide a solid estimate of how the Draft could play out (Last update: June 26, 1 a.m. ET):There’s consensus at the top.
3 things to know ahead of Round 1 of 2024 NBA Draft

Jun 25, 2024 | nba.com | Ben Couch

• Download the NBA AppNEW YORK – By the time you read this, we’re inside 24 hours from the 2024 NBA Draft tipping off Round 1 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Lives are about to change. For the young men set to walk the stage, and the fans who will support them for the next few seasons. In a Draft class that seems to focus on role playing floors rather than superstar ceilings, fit appears to overwhelm potential on most Draft boards.