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Go Deep, Young Man: How Shooting More 3-Pointers Can Set Bradley Beal Free

►Adam Rubin | Jan 28, 2015

Bradley Beal was not selected as one of the five participants in the NBA All-Star Weekend 3-Point Shootout. No, he was not snubbed. Beal was not selected for one simple reason:...
Marcin Gortat on the Gortat Brand and 100 Ideas Per Hour

►Bartosz Bielecki | Dec 19, 2014

[Ed. Note: TAI’s Polish correspondent, Bartosz Bielecki (@bart__92), returns with—you guessed it—a translated Marcin Gortat interview. For the October-December 2014 issue of “Champion” magazine, Gortat, in his hometown of Łódź, sat...
Flip Saunders Name-Drops JaVale McGee, Pierre Responds on Twitter (VIDEO)

►Kyle Weidie | Dec 17, 2014

We could easily classify a number of things JaVale McGee did while coached by Flip Saunders as knucklehead moments. We could do the same for Randy Wittman. We could do the...
Vines From China: Blatche and Crawford Defeat a Panda’s Friend

►Kyle Weidie | Nov 3, 2014

You haven’t lived until you’ve watched Chinese Basketball Association basketball featuring Andray Blatche and Jordan Crawford over the Internet before 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Breathe deep, you can almost...
Jan Vesely on New Basketball Life, the Lost NBA, and All the Reasons Why

►Lukas Kuba | Oct 31, 2014

[Ed. Note: Jan Vesely, #NeverForget … right? Don’t worry, we won’t. Washington’s 2011 first round draft pick, sixth overall, and the former Czech version of the American version of a very...
Olde Tyme Randy Wittman on a Shorter NBA Season

►Kyle Weidie | Oct 22, 2014

Randy Wittman and I agree, in principle. Talk of shortening the NBA schedule from 82 games or decreasing the amount of minutes in a game should be halted. Whether we arrive...
Czech-ing Development: Tomas Satoransky vs Jiri Welsch

►Lukas Kuba | Oct 20, 2014

Since...
Nene Maintains as Brazil Falls to U.S. in Saturday Night Friendly

►Kyle Weidie | Aug 17, 2014

#NeneJams, we missed you. Brazil hung around just long enough to lose by 17 points, 78-95, against Team USA in a Chicago-hosted “friendly” on Saturday night. The game was interesting...
No Names and Pro Names of the 2014 Las Vegas NBA Summer League

►Adam Rubin | Aug 13, 2014

[Note: In Part I of his Summer League Round-Up, Adam Rubin (@LedellsPlace) reviewed eight of the biggest names in Vegas. In Part II, he takes a look at 21 other players from all...
Pixels from Camp in Poland: A Stop in the Summer of Gortat

►Bartosz Bielecki | Aug 12, 2014

[Ed. Note: TAI’s Polish correspondent, Bart Bielecki, debuted at the end of July with a translation of a stellar Marcin Gortat interview with the Polish publication Gazeta Wyborcza.pl. This led to...
3-on-3: Wall and Beal Cut from Team USA, Cassell’s Depature, and Continued #KSlife

►Adam Rubin | Aug 5, 2014

Three questions, three answers, from three different people. TAI’s Adam Rubin, Rashad Mobley and Conor Dirks ponder John Wall and Bradley Beal getting cut from Team USA; Sam Cassell’s departure...
Drew Gooden for Team Finland at the FIBA World Cup? Plus Other Wizards and Ex-Wizards

►Kyle Weidie | Aug 4, 2014

[UPDATE: Aug. 21, 2014, 11:07 am — Per an article from Finnish outlet svenska.yle.fi, it seems that Drew Gooden might not be on Finland’s final submitted roster of the 12 players who...
Marcin Gortat on Love, Loneliness, and the Polish Struggle

►Bartosz Bielecki | Jul 31, 2014

[Ed. Note: Bartosz “Bart” Bielecki (@bart__92) is a 22-year-old Polish college student majoring in American Studies who loves basketball and, of course, keeps close tabs on Marcin Gortat. Today he joins...
A Story About A Story About A Boy from Seat Pleasant, Kevin Durant

►Kyle Weidie | Jul 30, 2014

Not to be a killjoy, but the upcoming two years filled with Kevin Durant to D.C. fodder is going to be really fucking miserable. And here I am contributing to...
Tomas Satoransky on Barcelona, Messi, JC Navarro, and a Wizards Future

►Lukas Kuba | Jul 30, 2014

[Ed. Note: Tomas Satoransky was drafted 32nd overall by the Washington Wizards in the 2012 draft and entered basketball free agency this summer after playing five seasons for Cajasol of the Spanish...