We're a little over a month into the 2024-25 NBA season and we're already past the halfway point of the NBA Cup group phase with teams facing knockout round clinching scenarios this week. Some teams are dominating in group play,

The Portland Trail Blazers are off to a much of a solid start by their standards.  The Blazers have looked quite good thus far, but they don't have enough power

The Boston Celtics won their show-and-prove matchup last week against the previously unbeaten Cleveland Cavaliers.

Teams are competing and not blatantly exercising organizational priorities, and in a culture where we’re waiting for the next “trades we want to see” piece to drop, I like that NBA Cup games take place just after the glorified feel-out games that mark the opening weeks of the season and wrap up just before all of those new contracts become tradeable.

Knecht has been climbing the ranks in the ROY power rankings thanks to his November ascension. Let's see where he ranks according to the experts.

"The Knicks continue to be carried by the league’s second-ranked offense, scoring an amazing 131.8 points per 100 possessions over the winning streak, which included two of the