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Jalen Johnson produces more per 1% of salary cap than 9 of your favorite All-Stars combined. One of them is worth over $1 billion. Jalen makes $5.6M.
# Track 1: The Remixes (New Face Teams) These are the squads that, let’s face it, are struggling. That said, they’re also either making — or about to make — s...
New Mixtape track: the Legends Lap 🎧 As Ant/Wemby/Cade take the keys, the league is quietly saying goodbye to the icons who made this era: Steph, KD, Harden, LeBron, CP3 — and they’re still putting up numbers. If these guys shaped your NBA life, here’s the request: go see them in person this season. Even if it’s inconvenient. Even if you used to hate them.
Best Ensembles Assembled = the teams that already look built for May. West leaders: OKC (36–8), Spurs (31–10), Nuggets (30–13) — MVP race + standings basically the same story. East twist: Detroit (31–10) is real… but Boston (26–16) being 2nd after losing Tatum? That’s the season’s wildest remix.
Track 1 in the Midseason Mixtape 🎧🔥 Hit Makers = the MVP leaders at the halfway point — Jokic, Luka, SGA… plus Wemby’s minutes-restricted monster season and Jaylen Brown dragging Boston into the 2-seed conversation. My MVP order: 1) Jokic 2) Luka 3) SGA.
The Mid-Season Mixtape Series is a quick, burned-CD-style primer on the NBA season — a curated set of “tracks” that capture what’s mattered so far without requiring a spreadsheet. Volume 1 (The Hits) gets you bar-top ready with the biggest storylines and headliners, while Volume 2 (The Experimental) digs into rebuilds, emerging schemes, and the weird ideas that could shape what comes next.
Introducing: Picks, Pops & Rolls Basketball is a beautiful game - in the way it’s played, in the moments it creates, and in the stories and narratives that ...
The Great NBA Table 🏀 🦃: A Thanksgiving Look at the League’s Best Lineups!
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