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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 Phoenix Suns seem to have four finalists for their vacant head-coaching position. Or do they? Tuesday night, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported the Suns had advanced former Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse, former Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers, Sacramento Kings associate head coach Jordi Fernandez and their own associate head coach, Kevin Young, to meet […]

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 […]

The Los Angeles Lakers were swept out of the NBA playoffs by the Denver Nuggets Tuesday night. Three years after the Lakers beat the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals, Denver swept Los Angeles. Each game was close, but the Lakers never got on top. This will be an important offseason for Los Angeles. Superstar […]

Presented with a chance to eliminate the Boston Celtics in sweep fashion, the Miami Heat could not accomplish such a feat on Tuesday evening, as they now head on the road to TD Garden for a Game 5 with the series record reading 3-1. Despite the loss and their lowly offensive shooting performance on the […]

The Boston Celtics kept their season alive for another day in Game 4, thanks in no small part to Jayson Tatum. The Celtics star did it all. Tatum’s 33 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists, and two blocks were all game-high marks and his 14-point third quarter helped Boston pull away for good. There have been […]

The Miami Heat did not advance to the NBA Finals Tuesday night. The Heat, who led the Eastern Conference Finals 3-0, saw the Boston Celtics go on a second-half run to win Game 4, 116-99, to force a Game 5 in Boston. No team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in an NBA […]

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 […]

How will the Nets be able to build their way back into playoff contention? The Nets ended their season with a record of 45-37, good enough for sixth place in the Eastern Conference and four games ahead of the Atlanta Hawks for a spot in the Play-In tournament. Their hopeful run in the postseason ended […]

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 […]

The Boston Celtics staved off elimination in the Eastern Conference Finals with a huge Game 4 win over the Miami Heat. After going back and forth in the first half, the Celtics went on a big scoring run in the third quarter to take a 10-point lead and then another in the fourth to put […]

Sports media coverage often gets criticized by sports fans, whether it be a show of bias or simply the way a certain network or show does things. Charles Barkley seems to have a problem with the way the media covered the Denver Nuggets and their Western Conference Finals sweep over the Los Angeles Lakers. Rather […]

Ja Morant has made the headlines for the wrong reasons of late. The Memphis Grizzlies star has been lambasted for once again brandishing a gun on an Instagram live, the same thing he caught flak for earlier in the season. With the Grizzlies suspending him shortly after the incident and a good chunk of fans […]

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 […]

Triple H…NBA Champion?! As the NBA Finals draws nearer this June, the coveted NBA Larry O’Brien trophy paid a visit to WWE Monday Night RAW this week, at Hershey, Pennsylvania. The NBA Championship trophy took to Twitter and Tiktok to document the visit, where it was held by none other than 14-time World Champion and Chief […]

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has the memory of an elephant, that much we know of. Who could forget the time when Green named all 34 players who were taken before him in the 2012 NBA Draft? Thus, it’s certainly quite like Green to recall a joke statement from Joel Embiid back in the […]

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 […]

Celtics star Jayson Tatum makes history and chases LeBron James’ playoff record from 2018. With their Game 4 win against the Miami Heat, Jayson Tatum recorded his sixth game with 30 points, ten rebounds, and five assists in a single-postseason run, per ESPN Stats & Info. He is a game away from tying LeBron who […]

Entering the 2023 Western Conference Finals, one of the biggest questions regarding the Los Angeles Lakers’ hopes of making the NBA Finals was, “how were they going to stop Nikola Jokic?” Jokic, throughout the 2023 playoffs, has been a man on a mission for the Denver Nuggets. Surely enough, Jokic proved to be an extremely […]

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. […]

It has been done before in the MLB and NHL, but never before in the NBA has a team come back from a 3-0 series deficit in the playoffs. Going up 3-0 in the NBA means that one team is either vastly superior to the other, or has thoroughly outplayed and outmaneuvered the opposition. That […]

Stephen A. Smith of ESPN First Take recently addressed to the fans if there was any beef between him and JJ Redick, his co-host. Stephen A. spoke on his Know Mercy podcast about the matter, and defended JJ Redick for his comments after First Take aired Tuesday morning. He would tweet it out later in […]

If Boston Celtics fans think that Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat are going to be discouraged following their Game 4 loss in the Eastern Conference Finals, then they are severely mistaken. After all, if there is any team who knows very well how to respond to adversity, it’s the Heat. Butler proved as much […]

No NBA team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in the playoffs before. That is simply a fact of life that the 2023 Boston Celtics would hope to overcome, one game at a time. So why not channel the energy of yet another Boston-based major sports franchise that did the unthinkable almost 20 […]

The Boston Celtics pulled off a massive win on Tuesday night against the Miami Heat in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Jimmy Butler and the Heat let a golden opportunity to close out the Celtics on their own home floor slip away, and while they still have a commanding 3-1 series lead, they […]

Jimmy Butler has a simple message for those thinking that the Boston Celtics’ Game 4 win will take the momentum away from the Miami Heat: think again. After the Celtics dominated Game 4 and secured the 116-99 win to avoid a sweep and make it a 3-1 series, fans, experts and doubters alike raised concerns […]

No team has ever came back from a 3-0 deficit in the NBA Playoffs. But after Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics beat the Miami Heat in Game 4 to stave off elimination and avoid a sweep, Beantown fans are now dreaming of the improbable. With their backs against the wall and facing a real […]

Dwight Howard’s self-deprecating Taiwan invites to trending NBA players (aka those that just got bounced from the NBA Playoffs) have been going viral — and for good reason. His latest victim is none other than former Los Angeles Lakers teammate  LeBron James, who despite his heroic effort, just saw his team get utterly embarrassed by […]

The Boston Celtics just starved of elimination on Tuesday night by blowing out the Miami Heat, 116-99, in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Entering the game down 0-3 in the series, the Celtics had to win this one to keep their season alive. They did just that by stealing away a victory on […]

The Phoenix Suns have narrowed their head-coaching search to four finalists, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Former Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse, former Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers, Sacramento Kings associate head coach Jordi Fernandez and Kevin Young, who was the team’s associate head coach for the last two seasons under Monty Williams, made the […]

Jayson Tatum may have been playing poorly for the most part of the Eastern Conference Finals, but in Game 4 against the Miami Heat, he finally got it going offensively and made history in the process. Tatum entered the contest with a total of 218 playoff triples in his career, trailing only Paul Pierce’s 219 […]

There’s absolutely no love lost between Patrick Beverley and Chris Paul. These two clearly don’t like each other, and their animosity has spilled over on the basketball court on more than one occasion. Be that as it may, the Pat Bev-CP3 feud has been relatively quiet of late. That is until the Chicago Bulls veteran […]

Lonnie Walker IV had quite a season with the Los Angeles Lakers. After taking on a starting role for most of the regular season, the 6-foot-4 shooting guard saw himself completely fall out of the rotation following LA’s flurry of NBA trade deadline moves. In spite of the demotion, however, Walker stayed ready, and all his […]

After reports emerged linking Trae Young to a potential trade to the Los Angeles Lakers, several fans protested the move and argued that it would only be disastrous for the team. On Tuesday, the Young-to-Lakers rumors made rounds online. According to a report, “the Lakers have had internal discussions about what a hypothetical trade offer […]

The Philadelphia 76ers are wasting no time in replacing recently fired coach Doc Rivers. A handful of big names have already been liked to the Sixers as their new head honcho, and at this point, former Lakers head coach Frank Vogel has reportedly taken a significant step toward securing the job. According to Sixers team […]

There has been some real buzz surrounding LeBron James potentially hanging it up this summer after the Los Angeles Lakers were utterly embarrassed by the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals. This does not come as a complete shock considering how James is already turning 39 this year and the fact that he has […]

Charles Barkley couldn’t help but roast Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics ahead of their potential playoff elimination at the hands of the Miami Heat. Ahead of Game 4 in Miami, Tatum was spotted entering the Kaseya Center wearing a shirt from menswear brand Nahmias. Barkley seemed to have misread it and asked if Tatum […]