Dan Favale

6 days ago | bleacherreport.com | Dan Favale

Kawhi Leonard and the San Antonio Spurs (2018)9 of 18 "Messy" and "divorce" are not terms often associated with the San Antonio Spurs. They are among the NBA's gold standards for drama-free sustainability. However, their breakup with Kawhi Leonard in 2018 was anything but drama-free. It was layered and weird. San Antonio's handling of its Finals MVP's right quad injury is often cited as the driving force.

1 week ago | behindthebuckpass.com | Dan Favale

This needs to be a top priority. While so many teams around the NBA have shifted into Giannis Antetokounmpo trade-speculation mode, the Milwaukee Bucks need to be concerned about building upon what's already in place, unless their two-time MVP tells them otherwise. This task is a lot harder in the aftermath of Damian Lillard's disastrous Achilles injury, but that doesn't make it any less important. If anything, the Bucks are under more pressure to get creative over the offseason.

2 weeks ago | orlandomagicdaily.com | Dan Favale

They're so close. Moral victories are not a staple of the NBA playoffs. Not when you have been there before, like this exact version of the Orlando Magic. And certainly not when you entered the regular season with higher aspirations than making the play-in tournament, like this exact version of the Magic also did. Yet, Orlando’s five-game exit at the hands of the reigning champion Boston Celtics was in many ways proof of concept.

2 weeks ago | dunkingwithwolves.com | Dan Favale

Nobody saw this coming. Julius Randle is coming up big in the NBA playoffs for the Minnesota Timberwolves, and everybody knows it. Somehow, though, he’s still not receiving enough credit for his body of work against the Los Angeles Lakers. Hat tips aplenty continue to come his way, make no mistake. He’s averaging 22.5 points and 4.5 assists, while knocking down 45.5% of his triples, for the series.

3 weeks ago | bluemanhoop.com | Dan Favale

The latest rumors leave out a huge part of the story. Jonathan Kuminga enters the NBA playoffs hanging onto his spot inside the Golden State Warriors rotation by a thread, without any sort of guarantee that will change anytime soon, if ever. It is a shift in dynamics that head coach Steve Kerr attributes to the addition of Jimmy Butler, and Kuminga's poor fit alongside him. It's also one that sets the stage for Golden State to lose the 22-year-old for nothing this summer.