The Whiteboard: Checking in on the NBA’s obscure stats leaderboards

January 27, 2021 admin 0

The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. NBA coverage is steeped in the language of statistics but we tend to spend the most time circling the same ones. But what about the curiosities? The obscure […]

3 free agents the Steelers should avoid

January 27, 2021 admin 0

The Steelers have a ton of work to do in free agency, but it”s imperative for Pittsburgh to avoid spending big on these three players. Ben Roethlisberger’s contract issue will dominate the headlines of Pittsburgh’s offseason, but that doesn’t change the reality that the Steelers have a ton of work to do in free agency. […]

Can the Nets learn from the missteps of superteams of the past?

January 27, 2021 admin 0

In the late 1960s, the Lakers had Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, and Jerry West, but they never won a title together. Will the Brooklyn Nets meet the same fate? With the Brooklyn Nets trading for James Harden, they have assembled one of the most imposing trios in the history of the NBA. While others may […]