The 2024 Olympic Basketball Tournament is over, and with it, so is all meaningful summer basketball. There are now a couple of months of relative downtime before the majority of the world’s leagues resume play, including the NBA. Roster construction and scouting, though, never stop. And while the bulk of business is long since done, new information…

Be as effusive with your praise of Nikola Jokic as you dare. He has earned it. The uber-Brad Miller is a sport-changing talent, an all-timer, someone with a gravitational effect on the entire league. Be fairly liberal in your appraisal of this year's Denver Nuggets, too. They are replete with offense, sporting a colossal seven players averaging dou…

All good things must come to an end. Having lost five games in a row, the hot start that the Utah Jazz got out to this season seems to have fully cooled off. They came out of the gates storming with an unlikely amount of synergy, and peeled off 12 wins in their first 18 games. They were considerably better than everyone expected, including those wh…

Across successive NBA Collective Bargaining Agreements, instruments have been put in place to protect teams against the threat of losing their best young talents to free agency, theoretically correcting a situation brought about by years of travel in the opposite direction. Restricted free agency is an imperfect tool, though, and there does still e…

Father time, they say, is undefeated. But you can at least negotiate with him. In what will indisputably be the latter stages of his career, Cleveland Cavaliers big man Kevin Love is holding back the inevitable. As the hair greys and the team around him transforms, he remains the mainstay, the lone holdover from the championship era, the bridge to …

For whatever reason, Deandre Ayton has become the barometer by which the Phoenix Suns are often measured. The man who has simultaneously been a big-minute starter and an afterthought, who they did not much value yet whom they gave a maximum salary to, who they would not extend but who they would match an offer sheet for, and who can be both underwh…

The Philadelphia 76ers drafted Tyrese Maxey with the 21st overall pick in 2020, directly between Precious Achiuwa and Zeke Nnaji. He had averaged 14.0 points, 4.2 assists and 3.9 rebounds per game in a heavy minutes share in his only season at Kentucky, but had not really shone in any area of the game; while he had few weaknesses and played with en…

"Culture", a thing that is both hard to define and badly yearned for, is key to creating winning sports teams. So says everyone. Basketball is no different. The late Bulls General Manager Jerry Krause was widely mocked for his (paraphrased) statement that "organisations win championships", and his clunky phrasing (which either gave or allowed for t…

WE'RE BACK! It's been a long hiatus, but the boys have finally returned. They have a lot to catch up on. Topics include the arrival of Adam Gase's crazy eyes, the NFL playoffs, the College Football Playoff and national title game, fast food at the White House and Eazy's top 7 pet peeves. Giddy Up.Por Loose Balls

The boys continue the Round Robin this week with another installation of VZ SZN. Z Train and Tommy V disagree about the college football committee's picks but both agree that Georgia is the laughing stock of the whole ordeal. Bowl SZN is coming up and we've got the bowls everyone should be looking out so be sure to tune in because your money may de…