The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. The Boston Celtics have only been outscored by the Miami Heat by a total of eight points so far in the Eastern Conference Finals, but that narrow margin
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The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. It took a somewhat miraculous 19-point comeback for the Denver Nuggets to even force a Game 7 but all that would be just preamble to what they hope
Welcome to The Whiteboard, catching you up every morning on what’s good around the NBA. Find The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you by email. When the NBA handed out its first-ever Most Valuable Player award to Bob Petit 63 years ago, the league probably thought it was
Welcome to The Whiteboard, catching you up every morning on what’s good around the NBA. Find The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you by email. Are they finally gonna win the East this year? Hard to say. Can they win the title? Feasibly, sure. But what the Raptors
Welcome to The Whiteboard, catching you up every morning on what’s good around the NBA. Find The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you by email. Arguments and accolades. It’s what sports coverage is in 2019. If you don’t have a website that’s putting out a list of the
Welcome to The Whiteboard, catching you up every morning on what’s good around the NBA. Find The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you by email. It’s the penultimate Wednesday night of the NBA season. The home team, the Orlando Magic, is fighting far harder than they should probably
Welcome to The Whiteboard, catching you up every morning on what’s good around the NBA. Find The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you by email. He’s brash and bold, with the awe-inspiring, slack-jaw inducing illustriousness of a shooting star. From his avant-garde pregame fashion choices to the Mount
Welcome to The Whiteboard, catching you up every morning on what’s good around the NBA. Find The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you by email. The Charlotte Hornets are, admittedly, not in an ideal position. They entered Sunday night’s game against the Toronto Raptors in 10th
Welcome to The Whiteboard, catching you up every morning on what’s good around the NBA. Find The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you by email. The playoff hopes of the Sacramento Kings have been dwindling for a while now, but their loss to the Lakers on Sunday
Welcome to The Whiteboard, catching you up every morning on what’s good around the NBA. Find The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you by email. Everywhere you look, you can see the signs — buds beginning to pop on the trees, scrawny robins looking to get their worm
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Karl-Anthony Towns had a quiet start to the 2018-19 NBA season, which
The NBA is rapidly changing before our eyes. The knock-em-down, drag-em-out days of the 1980s and 1990s look like fossils compared to the action we see on the floor now. We’ve heard ad nauseam about the 3-point revolution that the league is currently undergoing. In the blink of an eye, Brook Lopez has gone from
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. For a team that is planning on reaching peak form after adding
DWelcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Malik Monk is a freshly 21-year-old guard who the Charlotte Hornets selected
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. The Eastern Conference was in a thrilling arms race on NBA trade
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Lou Williams, on his way to a terrific 35 point showing that
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. There is a strange effect that results from NBA players getting big
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. The two teams leading the NBA in net rating in the calendar
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. The Phoenix Suns need Deandre Ayton to be very good. Phoenix is
Jimmy Butler didn’t make many fans when he forced his way out of Minnesota, but the Philadelphia 76ers guard still deserves a place in the NBA All-Star Game. With the NBA All-Star reserves being announced this Thursday, there is naturally a lot of talk about which players are deserving for those coveted spots. When it
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Isaiah Thomas is not and has never been a perfect basketball player. Nobody
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Andrew Wiggins owes Jimmy Butler a debt of gratitude for leaving the
DeMarcus Cousins looked surprisingly spry in his first game back from a torn Achilles, which is bad news for all the NBA teams who aren’t the Golden State Warriors. There were idiots (read: this writer) who figured DeMarcus Cousins would not add that much to the Golden State Warriors due to the severity of the
The Denver Nuggets have a lot of good players, but Monte Morris might be the best value on the entire team. There are a lot of players across the NBA who simply do not get credit for their importance. Monte Morris of the Denver Nuggets has been one of those guys this season. Morris is
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Otto Porter being dealt to the Chicago Bulls was not a thing
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Brook Lopez is a player who has always been put in boxes
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Early on, it seemed like the latest episode of Adrian Wojnarowski’s podcast,
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. The Atlanta Hawks have some promising young talent on the roster right
The Philadelphia 76ers got better by adding Tobias Harris to their squad, but JJ Redick is playing like he’s pissed off not to be included in the Sixers’ big four. The Philadelphia 76ers filled out their starting five in dramatic fashion before the NBA trade deadline by adding Tobias Harris to take Wilson Chandler’s place.
Welcome to The Whiteboard, your daily source for the previous day’s best NBA content from around the internet, plus an original column. Catch The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Somehow, someway, the Orlando Magic was the NBA’s hottest team heading into