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The Miami Heat have been the surprise packet of the NBA playoffs, working their way not just into the Eastern Conference Finals, but to a 3-0 lead against the Boston Celtics despite just scraping into the postseason as the eight seed. They couldn’t get the job done in Game 4 and will now head back […]

Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant continues to deal with off-court drama that has severely clouded his future. Originally suspended during the 2022-23 season for flashing a gun at a camera while at a nightclub in Colorado, Morant now faces much harsher penalties after once again being seen on a live video waiving a firearm around. […]

With few draft picks and little salary cap space to help improve the team for next season, Los Angeles Lakers’ trades are likely the only avenue the team has to get better this offseason. And that may mean dealing their most valuable asset in an Anthony Davis trade. In fairness to the Lakers, the team […]

The stakes are its highest during the NBA playoffs. As a result, it is the most important time for NBA superstars to play their best. However, with the intensity and physicality at its highest, there are unfortunate times when a superstar unexpectedly goes down with an injury. More often than not, these injuries negatively affected […]

It’s still unclear who will be running the Golden State Warriors’ front office this summer. Whether Bob Myers decides to stick around, Mike Dunleavy Jr. takes his place or someone else vaults to the top of the team’s basketball operations department won’t change the harshest reality of a pivotal offseason. The Warriors’ ability to restock […]

Heading into Tuesday night’s Game 4, Jimmy Butler, Erik Spoelstra, and the Miami Heat seemed primed to sweep the Boston Celtics. After all, the Heat held a commanding 3-0 series lead and were fresh off a 128-102 thrashing of the Celtics in Game 3. But the Celtics shocked the world on Tuesday behind some excellent […]

Nobody expected the Miami Heat to be in the Eastern Conference Finals this season. Well, maybe the Heat did, but ending the regular season having to fight for a playoff spot in the Play-In Tournament, it seemed like Miami could be heading for an offseason full of mystery. Entering Game 4 of the conference finals […]

The 2022-23 NBA season proved to be a huge success for the Los Angeles Lakers despite getting swept in the Western Conference Finals by the Denver Nuggets. Just the fact that they were in the conference finals alone is a massive feat for this team, especially when you look at their 2-10 start to the […]

The NBA Playoffs continue as the Miami Heat (44-38) visit the Boston Celtics (57-25) for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Action tips off Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET. Boston staved off elimination thanks to their 116-99 win in Game 4. However, Miami still leads the series 3-1 and needs just one win to […]

The clock is certainly ticking on this iteration of the Los Angeles Clippers. Four years have passed since the Clippers’ bombshell acquisitions of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, and yet here they are, having fallen short time and time again of their ultimate goal to win a championship. One would think that there would be […]

The Atlanta Hawks need everything and need nothing. On one hand, this is a loaded roster—they have an all-world guard duo of Trae Young and Dejounte Murray yet also legitimately go ten deep and even struggle to carve out minutes for young studs like Jalen Johnson and AJ Griffin. On the other, they aren’t especially […]

Becoming good is fun. This season, the Kings took the NBA by storm thanks to the most efficient offense in NBA history. Led by a pair of All-NBA studs in Domantas Sabonis and De’Aaron Fox, the Kings blitzed an unsuspecting league to the tune of 119.4 points per 100 possessions and a top three seed […]

Winning a bronze medal with Germany in the 2022 EuroBasket tournament, Los Angeles Lakers guard Dennis Schroder is prepared to once again represent his home country in the 2023 FIBA World Cup in the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia this summer. During the Lakers exit interviews on Tuesday following their defeat in the Western Conference Finals […]

One day after their hard-fought loss to the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals — which encapsulated a resilient season — the Los Angeles Lakers, sans LeBron James, held exit interviews with vice president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka and head coach Darvin Ham. The GM and coach began the day […]

Well, the Boston Celtics are still alive. If you watched their anemic 26-point loss in Game 3 against the Miami Heat, you would have figured Game 4 would have been a wash as well, but instead, they put together the outing they were likely looking for in Game 3, and sent the series back to […]

The Los Angeles Lakers were swept by the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals. The Nuggets won Game 4 of the series by a score of 113-111 on Monday night, May 23, 2023, to advance to the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history. Let’s look at the four Lakers players who […]

The Boston Celtics finally showed some real fight in their 116-99 Game 4 win over the Miami Heat. Although the Eastern Conference Finals is still 3-1 in Miami’s favor, the C’s looked like themselves again on Tuesday night. The Celtics hit open shots, played impressive defense for 48 minutes, and didn’t collapse when they faced adversity. […]

Among the main storylines of the Brooklyn Nets’ offseason is the restricted free agency of Cam Johnson. The 27-year-old was among the team’s top performers after Brooklyn acquired him at the deadline as part of a package for Kevin Durant. In 25 games following the trade, Johnson averaged 16.6 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.1 assists and […]

LeBron James leaving the Los Angeles Lakers after an unsatisfactory ending to his 2022-23 campaign isn’t a given. However, LeBron left the Cleveland Cavaliers twice when he felt they were no longer able to compete at the level that he would like to be on and the Miami Heat under similar circumstances. As a result, […]

Almost every team enters the NBA season with high title aspirations, but only one team ends up coming out on top. Just a single loss in the postseason can alter the trajectory of a franchise and entering this offseason, change across the league are inevitable. With the 2023 NBA Draft quickly approaching, a draft that […]

NBA players are physically gifted. As a result, they’re some of the best athletes in the world. While their athleticism can be attributed to their hard work, science has proved that there is a percentage that comes from the genes. With solid genes, some NBA players’ relatives find themselves succeeding in other leagues or even […]

Height is might in the game of basketball. Throughout NBA history, we’ve witnessed some of the tallest NBA players that have made their mark in the game. Although there’s a popular belief that height is often associated with genes, some NBA players today have proven that this isn’t always true. In fact, despite having relatively […]

Not even a day after the Los Angeles Lakers saw their 2022-23 season come to an end, the discussion has already shifted to potentially seismic changes for next season. Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young has reportedly been a topic of discussion amongst the Laker brain trust as the team continues to find a permanent […]

Entering the offseason, the only thing the Sacramento Kings are focused on as an organization is finding ways to build off of their recent success. This is why targeting EuroLeague MVP Sasha Vezenkov has become a priority. The 2022-23 season proved to be historic for Sacramento not only because head coach Mike Brown won the […]

How close are the Utah Jazz making another hopeful push for the playoffs? The Jazz finished with a record of 37-45 last season, good enough for 12th place in the Western Conference and fourth place in the Northwest Division. Forward Lauri Markkanen and guard Jordan Clarkson led the team in scoring with 25.6 and 20.8 […]

We have game 4 action in the Eastern Conference Finals between the No. 8 seeded white-hot Miami Heat looking for the sweep of the No. 2 seeded Boston Celtics. Tip-off for tonight’s Eastern Conference Finals is at 8:30 P.M. ET on TNT. We take a look at a same-game parlay promotion from Fanduel to get […]

LeBron James has defied Father Time for years. Focusing on his body and health, James has prolonged what has been one of the greatest careers in all of professional sports, yet injuries have been a problem for him since coming to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018. James has played in more than 60 games […]

The Los Angeles Lakers season has come to a disappointing finish. After a miraculous turnaround to make it into the 2023 NBA Playoffs and a run at the NBA Finals, the Lakers met a buzzsaw in the Denver Nuggets. On Monday night the Nuggets completed a sweep of the Lakers with a 113-111 victory, sending […]

Making the NBA playoffs is the goal for every team that is serious about winning a championship. But while it may take a season or two to build a playoff team, some franchises needed more time, some as much as over a decade. Nevertheless, despite their long absence from the bright lights of the postseason, […]

The Los Angeles Lakers fairytale playoff run came to an end on Monday night, as they were officially swept out of the postseason by the Denver Nuggets after losing Game 4 by a score of 113-111. LeBron James had his best game of the playoffs (40 PTS, 10 REB, 9 AST, 15/25 FGM) but even […]

Every year, the NBA Playoffs are advertised as a showcase of the best players in the NBA leading their teams in the quest for championship glory. Yet every year, the stars of the playoffs are unexpected figures. Jimmy Butler has willed the Miami Heat to within a game of the NBA Finals. He is backed […]

Although it was an incredible year 20, LeBron James saw his and the Los Angeles Lakers season come to an unceremonious end on Monday night. The Denver Nuggets finished off the sweep of the Lakers, advancing into the NBA Finals and sending the Lakers into the postseason. James showed why he will be considered one […]

The wounds from a painful sweep at the hands of the Denver Nuggets are still fresh for Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, and it’s probably a major reason why he sort of flirted with the idea of retiring from playing basketball. LeBron James said after the Lakers lost to the Nuggets in Game 4 […]

How will the Indiana Pacers be able to take the next step forward and make a hopeful push for the NBA Playoffs? Indiana will need to continue building upon a season that ended with 35 wins, their highest amount since the team featured forward Domantas Sabonis and guard Victor Oladipo in the 2019-20 season. Two […]

The Golden State Warriors, contrary to what some may believe, are not yet done as a contending team. As long as Stephen Curry is around and healthy come playoff time, the Warriors will have an opportunity to win it all. Nevertheless, the Warriors organization knows better than anyone that having “strength in numbers” is a […]

Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone had nothing but praise for Magic Johnson Western Conference Finals MVP Nikola Jokic after the team swept the Los Angeles Lakers 4-0 on Monday night. While celebrating their first NBA Finals appearance in franchise history, Malone spoke to the media about Jokic when asked about what he has proven […]

The Boston Celtics aren’t totally out just yet, but heading into Game 4 against the Miami Heat, it feels like they are almost certainly set to be sent on vacation by the Heat on Tuesday night. While the stakes are considerably lower for the C’s given the corner they have backed themselves into, this is […]

After playing 48 minutes (minus 4.3 seconds), dropping 40-10-9, and getting stuffed at the buzzer in the Los Angeles Lakers‘ 113-111 season-ending loss to the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals, LeBron James concluded his postgame press conference with a dubious cliffhanger. “I don’t know,” he said when asked to evaluate his age-38 season, […]

The New Orleans Pelicans are in a tough spot this offseason after missing the playoffs. The Pelicans are led by Zion Williamson, who was injured for the majority of the season. This has been common in Williamson’s career, as he has struggled to stay healthy. When Williamson was healthy, the Pelicans were one of the […]