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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. Every team has the same goal on offense — score as many points as possible. But every team goes about that in a different way, using different patterns of […]

Why NFL executives believe Baker Mayfield would be the first QB chosen in this year’s NFL Draft, the prospects rising fastest, plus a best guess of the NFL’s Week 1 prime time games, and more As the NFL Draft nears, the only certainty is complete uncertainty over how the top of the board will play […]

The NBA’s regular season has come and gone, but an important question remains: What are the top 10 power dunks of the 2021-22 season? The NBA’s 75th Anniversary regular season commenced on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, and concluded on Sunday, April 10, 2022. The season featured 1,230 regular-season games across those six months. According to […]

The Boston Celtics look to take a 2-0 series lead over the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night. After a thrilling finish on Sunday afternoon, the Boston Celtics are hoping to take a 2-0 series lead over the division rival Brooklyn Nets in the best-of-seven playoff series on Wednesday night. Boston was able to eke out a thrilling […]

After hitting a buzzer-beating shot in the first quarter, Devin Booker dapped up a baby during Game 2 against the New Orleans Pelicans. The Phoenix Suns entered Tuesday night, Apr. 19, looking to extend their series lead against the New Orleans Pelicans to 2-0 with a Game 2 victory. At the end of the first […]

Kyle Freeland has been a strong presence in the Rockies rotation and Colorado is making sure they’ll keep him around.   The Colorado Rockies have signed another one of their veterans to a contract extension. This time it’s left-handed starter Kyle Freeland, who the club signed to a five-year, $64.5 million contract extension on Tuesday, […]