Tag: nba
Highlander Sports All-Star Draft
With the NBA All-Star draft all wrapped up, the Highlander sports team decided to draft our own All-Star teams — without tampering and without...
Highlander Hot Take: The NBA All-Star voting system needs an overhaul
The NBA All-Star game is sold as the ultimate fan experience, but as we saw in this year’s selection process, that really isn’t the...
Highlander Hot Take: The LA Lakers only have 11 championships
The Los Angeles Lakers have arguably been the NBA’s best franchise during the modern era, amassing 10 NBA titles since 1980. They’ve had five...
Highlander Hot Take: Fixing the NBA Playoffs
Over the past few years, we have all heard rumblings about NBA Commissioner Adam Silver considering tweaking the NBA Playoffs. The WNBA already features...
A Deep Dive into the NBA Season
A new NBA season is upon us, and that means we are in for another year of brilliant performances, Twitter beef and breakout seasons...
Highlander Hot Take: Giannis Antetokounmpo will win the NBA MVP
There are many worthy candidates to win the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award, including Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Anthony Davis...
Our favorite summer sports moments
While the Highlanders were enjoying their summer and time off from school, the sports universe just kept on moving and we saw some great...
Highlander Hot Take: Championship games need diversity too
In the last three weeks, we have had both the Champions League final and the start of the National Basketball Association (NBA) finals. Both...
NBA Finals: Breaking down the newest rivalry saga
The NBA Finals are now underway and for the fourth straight season the Cleveland Cavaliers will be facing off against the Golden State Warriors....
Highlander Hot Take: The next step of “The Process” is finding...
The Philadelphia 76ers had a great regular season in which they earned the third seed in the Eastern Conference and made the postseason for...