Articles by D.J. Siddiqi (10)
Dwight Howard is going with a bold prediction for the NBA Finals and it’s one that you won’t see many people pick. The former Los Angeles Lakers big man — he won a championship with them in 2020 — predicts his former team, the Lakers, to face off against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2025 […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers are on a whole new level this season. The Cavaliers are likely to enter the playoffs as the Eastern Conference’s No. 1 seed. They currently hold a five-game lead over the defending champion Boston Celtics and are the first team in the East to reach 60 wins this season. Cleveland has taken […]
Jalen Williams isn’t holding back on his MVP pick — it’s his Oklahoma City Thunder teammate, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The Thunder are clearly the best team in the Western Conference at the moment, going 59-12 (.831 winning percentage) during the first 71 games of the season. They’re more than 13 games ahead of the second-best team […]
Donte DiVincenzo knows what it will take for the Minnesota Timberwolves to win a championship this season. DiVincenzo is well-known for being a champion, having won an NBA championship at the age of 24 as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks and having done so twice as an NCAA champion with the Villanova Wildcats. In […]
Gordon Hayward believes it’ll be his two former teams that meet in the 2025 NBA Finals. Hayward began his career and had his best years with the Utah Jazz, playing seven years in Salt Lake City while being named an All-Star in 2017. However, he spent a few years playing with the Boston Celtics (2017-2020) […]
Kansas Jayhawks star Hunter Dickinson still believes his team has what it takes to make a national championship run. The preseason No. 1 team hasn’t been perfect this season as they enter conference tournament play with a 20-11 record. The Jayhawks are unranked for the first time after 80 consecutive weeks being ranked. However, they […]
There is little doubt that Miami Heat’s Tyler Herro is a rising star. The 25-year-old shooting guard was just named to his first All-Star Game during a season of transition for the franchise. Herro is averaging a career-high 23.9 points, 5.5 assists and 5.5 assists per game on 46.5% shooting from the field. The sixth-year […]
Evan Mobley is one of three All-Stars that the Cleveland Cavaliers brought to the fold for the 2025 NBA All-Star Game. The 23-year-old forward was named to his first All-Star Game, along with teammates Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland. The Cavaliers, who are leading the East at the All-Star break with a 44-10 record (.815 […]
Philadelphia 76ers star Tyrese Maxey is facing a new challenge this season as the team’s unquestioned leader. With former NBA MVP Joel Embiid sidelined for all but 13 games this season due to a knee injury, Maxey has been the team’s lone lead scoring option, averaging a career-high 26.6 points per game (seventh-best in the […]
Norman Powell has been one of the top surprises early in the 2024-25 NBA season. The 10-year veteran and 31-year-old shooting guard has long been known as a solid role player and more recently, one of the top sixth men in the league. After winning a championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019 as a […]