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Anthony Davis’s impact on pick and roll begins with a collision you can hear from the cheap seats. Rubber bites…

Kevin Durant’s legacy battle against the Thunder still starts in a familiar hush: the old home crowd tightening before his…

Joel Embiid’s pick-and-roll mastery usually starts with a sound. Sneaker rubber squeals on hardwood. A guard’s shoulder brushes his hip.…

You can feel Denver’s two-man game coming before it actually happens. It begins in the hush just before contact, when…

Anthony Davis Heat trade pursuit starts in the least glamorous room in the building. It does not begin in the…

Anthony Edwards against the Thunder has become basketball’s heaviest young superstar job. Oklahoma City does not defend him with one…

Giannis Antetokounmpo’s clutch gene starts in the noise most scorers try to avoid. Listen closely to the final two minutes…

Miami Heat pick and roll after the trade starts with a strange kind of silence: Bam Adebayo jogging into the…

Devin Booker’s max extension starts with a sound: sneakers squealing on a late-April floor as Oklahoma City’s guards turn another…

The Lakers’ path past Steph Curry is not built on admiration. It is built on pressure, contact, and exhaustion. In…