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Damian Lillard And Who Else Benefits From Ebb And Flow Of MPG

Trailblazers PG Damian Lillard

Phenom point guard Damian Lillard led the league in minutes played last season. At 3,167, he played a whole game, 48 minutes, more than runner-up Kevin Durant. That’s a major workload but perhaps a little exaggerated as Luol Deng and Kobe Bryant, the two players who averaged more minutes per game than the ROY, sat […]

The Anti-Small-Ball Movement Intensifies In Memphis

Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph

A look at last season’s NBA Final Four shows that small-ball might be given too much credit. Memphis, though praised most loudly during the playoffs for playing “big” through its bigs, wasn’t alone in subscribing to an anti-small-ball sentiment. Along with Indiana, and to a lesser degree, the Spurs, the Grizzlies decided to buck a […]