The second round of the NBA Playoffs is underway, and despite some exciting first-round streaks, the top four seeds in each conference have advanced to the final eight. Now that we’ve seen how the remaining teams are reacting to the post-season environment, it seems like a good time to re-evaluate which one has the best …
SAN FRANCISCO. On the night that their dynasty collapsed due to torn ligaments, physical exhaustion, and the brute strength of Kawhi Leonard, the Golden State Warriors struggled to deal with their emotions and their future. What would they be without Clay Thompson, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament that June evening in 2019? Or without …
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When Jimmy Butler walked out of the Sixers Arena on Thursday night, fresh out of his second Eastern Conference Finals ticket in three years, he asked himself a rhetorical question that a few Philadelphia fans were probably thinking about. over the past three years: “Is Tobias Harris more important than me?” Butler, of course, played …
One of the most exciting things about the second round – in which we were almost lucky enough to win four matches 2-2 – is the fact that the legendary Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has some kind of connection with every head coach left in the dance. Some of them are more obvious and are …
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Draymond Green laid out a simple truth while addressing the media in Denver last month. “Everybody missed the playoffs,” Green said after the Warriors took a 3-0 series lead after beating the Nuggets 118-113. “You look around and see that some of the guys that you think are guys are not playoff guys. “That’s exactly …
If you’ve been watching the NBA long enough, you’ve no doubt seen the league go through quite a few seismic changes. Wages have skyrocketed: the average annual number per player is almost 10 times higher than in the early 1990s. Then comes the proliferation of three-point shots, which didn’t even exist in the NBA until …
Draymond Green laid out a simple truth while addressing the media in Denver last month. “Everybody missed the playoffs,” Green said after the Warriors took a 3-0 series lead after beating the Nuggets 118-113. “You look around and see that some of the guys that you think are guys are not playoff guys. “That’s exactly …
From how the 66ers and Mavs bounced back, to Jah’s injury to a crazy finish in Milwaukee, our writers weigh in on every series after an action-packed NBA playoff weekend. 1. Sixers Heat is… Chris Herring: Only 180 from what it was before. While we could technically say the same about Suns-Mavs, Sixers-Heat feels different. …
If you’ve watched the NBA long enough, you’ve no doubt seen the league go through quite a few seismic changes. Wages have skyrocketed: the average annual number per player is almost 10 times higher than in the early 1990s. Then comes the proliferation of three-point shots, which didn’t even exist in the NBA before the …
One of the most exciting things about the second round – in which we were almost lucky enough to win four matches 2-2 – is the fact that the legendary Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has some kind of connection with every head coach left in the dance. Some of them are more obvious and are …
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