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Championship Leadership: How to Measure and Define It

Leadership is often what separates two evenly matched teams — and it's the one cornerstone bar you can't read off a box score. A 12-point rubric for scoring it: the Five Cs, a first board of the league's leaders, and the number that explains Kevin Durant's entire career.

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The Phase Report, Part 1: Reset Teams

Eleven NBA franchises have no confirmed cornerstone. Here is what each one should do about it this summer.

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The Question Every NBA GM Evaluation Skips

Everyone grades general managers on whether their moves worked. That's not analysis — that's a box score. Here's the framework that actually separates good decisions from bad ones at the time they happen.