The NBA’s late-2010s era of small ball dependency and decreasing minutes to traditional centers forced the tallest basketball players on the planet to adapt their game to the times. Now one full season into the 2020s, the NBA MVP, Nikola Jokic, was a Center for the first time Shaq one it in 1999-2000 (Tim Duncan,Continue reading “First Line Podcast: Ep. 2 – Bigs and Ben, the Value of the Modern NBA Big Man”
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First Line Podcast: Ep. 1 – The Triple Double and Russell Westbrook is One of a Kind
Many people regard the Triple-Double the most complete stat line in an NBA game. Russell Westbrook has AVERAGED a Triple-Double FOUR TIMES in the last five seasons. Putting together that long of a stretch of complete games never being done before may suggest it as being the greatest stretch of basketball the NBA has everContinue reading “First Line Podcast: Ep. 1 – The Triple Double and Russell Westbrook is One of a Kind”