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Here are all the Draft Tournaments and Live Draft Day threads since 2020. The 2026 page describes how the field was chosen, analyzes the rele...

Here are all the Draft Tournaments and Live Draft Day threads since 2020.

For the entirety of the Golden Empire, every front office in basketball has been chasing the same ghost. Steph Curry and the Warriors broke the sport and ever since, everyone has been trying to figure out how to build the next dynasty. Tonight, two franchises tip off the NBA Finals with completely different answers. By the end of June, one of those answers gets a parade.

Okay buddy, sit down. Put the remote down, this is important to the game of basketball that you love.

You know how every year some NBA teams spend the entire season losing on purpose? Not because they’re bad necessarily, but because they want to get draft lottery balls. They call it tanking, and for the last twenty years it has essentially been the league’s version of f...

Let’s be clear about something before we start.

I don’t want to talk about the Western Conference Finals right now. OKC and San Antonio can wait. Yeah yeah I know, best NBA matchup possible, two franchises shaped by the Warriors’ dynasty, playing for a trip to the Finals. And yet I genuinely do not care at this moment because something more important just happened.