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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. Hindsight has a way of shaping memory, paring away some of the connective tissue and leaving the breakthrough players and teams in stark relief. But while this may end […]

With the 2021-22 NBA season set to tip-off, we’re taking a look at a single metric that could define success for each of the thirty teams. The 2021-22 NBA season begins on today with multiple teams vying atop the league for a possible championship. In hopes of better understanding the broader NBA landscape, these are […]

The Celtics want to get back on top of the Eastern Conference this season. To scale that mountain, Boston needs to answer these five big questions.  The Boston Celtics were widely considered to be a team on the ascendancy in the Eastern Conference just a few seasons ago. Now Boston has big questions to answer […]

Brian Dozier has only been out of MLB baseball for one season but he’s already looking for a way back in.  Brian Dozier, 34, was teammates with Chase Utley and Jim Thome. He was managed by Ron Gardenhire, Paul Molitor, Dave Roberts and Davey Martinez. He spent nine seasons in baseball, hitting .244/.325/.441 with 192 […]

Week 7 of fantasy football season is here, and with bye weeks in full effect, finding exploitable matchups is crucial in your matchup or daily fantasy lineups. A lot of players have great fantasy weeks regardless of who they are playing, but some excel in favorable matchups. It’s key to identify those matchups that could […]

The Big Ten is dominating the college football rankings, but is it possible they can get two teams in the College Football Playoff? This week in college football didn’t see so many top teams fall by the wayside, but it did see plenty of upsets. The biggest came at the hands of the 2-3 Purdue […]

Every NBA season is worth being excited about. Here are 50 reasons to celebrate the start of the upcoming season. The last two seasons have not gone the way anyone would have expected or hoped. With the coronavirus pandemic shifting and shortening the league schedule, the rhythms of the season have been interrupted, each wrapping […]