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The NBA regular season has officially come to an end after a jam-packed Easter Sunday.  Now is playoff time, and the 2023 NBA Finals have everybody’s attention over the span of the next two months. The Milwaukee Bucks and Denver Nuggets finished as the top seeds in their respective conferences. The Phoenix Suns, Boston Celtics, […]

Beloved Miami Heat veteran Udonis Haslem played his final regular season game on Easter Sunday and went out with a blaze of glory. Seeing a whopping 24 minutes of action against the Orlando Magic, the big man put forth a tremendous showing, finishing with a game-high 24 points to go along with 3 rebounds and […]

It is time for the NBA Playoffs… in a way. It is the play-in tournament with the Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series with a Hawks-Heat prediction, pick, and how-to-watch. As NBA stars such as Dwayne Wade and LeBron James sent their well-wishes for Udonis Haslem before his […]

Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young could find himself shipped away to a different team this offseason, as The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor reports that the Hawks have given their front office permission to explore trades involving the two-time All-Star: “With the offseason approaching, league sources say the Hawks’ front office has the green light from […]

After a rather successful 2022 NFL season, the Detroit Lions are looking to build off their accomplishments and, hopefully, inch themselves closer to breaking their current six-year playoff drought. For most teams, strong quarterback play is the difference between a mediocre finish and a meteoric rise. While current starter Jared Goff had a solid campaign, […]

Get ready with your favorite gameday snacks and make sure you’re ready to monitor social media, because the NBA playoffs are about to begin! As the regular season comes to a close, it’s time to take a closer look at the league’s top teams and determine who’s got the skills to take home the Larry […]

The Los Angeles Lakers officially punched their ticket to the play-in tournament Sunday afternoon with a decisive 128-117 win over the Utah Jazz. Through ample adversity, the club managed to extend their 2022-23 campaign and give themselves a chance at clinching a playoff berth should they collect just one more win. However, the Lakers still […]

Both the NCAA Tournament and NBA regular season are now over, so it’s now for the real fun to begin: NBA mock draft season. While the top of the 2023 NBA Draft is pretty calcified at this point (Victor Wembanyama is guaranteed to be the first pick), it gets really weird really quick. Is Nick […]

Damian Lillard had one of the best statistical seasons of his outstanding career in the 2022-23 season. But the Portland Trail Blazers didn’t surround him with a team good enough to even make the postseason. Lillard is done with rebuilds and wants to start competing for the playoffs again, according to independent Trail Blazers reporter […]

PHILADELPHIA — Paul Reed is part of an important lineage for the Philadelphia 76ers. The team’s backup center is a glue guy known for hustle plays and doing the dirty work. Appreciation for those types of players has been a staple among Sixers fans for a while, due in large part to the Rights to […]

PHILADELPHIA — The final day of the 2022-23 regular season was eventful for Paul Reed. After he helped the Philadelphia 76ers secure a win over the Brooklyn Nets, he headed over to the Rights to Ricky Sanchez podcast’s live event, where he was the headline guest. Spike Eskin and Mike Levin, who have painstakingly chronicled the last decade […]

Sunday was a day for Minnesota Timberwolves fans to forget. Unfortunately, the latest development in the Rudy Gobert-Kyle Anderson drama will make that very difficult to do with the NBA Play-In Tournament commencing Tuesday. After Gobert punched Anderson in the chest in their regular season finale against the New Orleans Pelicans, the two teammates had […]

LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers’ season didn’t start the way they wanted it to. At one point, it definitely looked like they were headed to a disappointing campaign that would be capped with a bottom finish. However, fast forward to six months later, they are now going to the Play-In with a legitimate […]

Kyrie Irving made headlines on Sunday after he refused to speak with the media following their final regular season game on Sunday. It didn’t sit well with a lot of reporters, especially since Irving did promise when he was traded to the Mavs that he’d talk about his future with the team at the end […]

Coming into the 2022-23 NBA season, hopes were high for the Dallas Mavericks and their fans. The Mavericks were coming off of a season where they unexpectedly made it to the Western Conference Finals (before losing to the eventual champion Golden State Warriors), and signs were pointing towards an ascension to continue. A big reason […]

Kyle Anderson is not making a big deal of the incident that he and Rudy Gobert were involved in during the Minnesota Timberwolves’ final regular season game against the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday. For those who missed it, Gobert punched Anderson following a heated discussion on the bench during the contest. Apparently, the two […]

The Boston Celtics are a storied franchise with no shortage of history, and this regular season Jayson Tatum added his own chapter. The four-time All-Star became the first player in franchise history to average 30 points per game in a season, something Paul Pierce, Larry Bird, and other Hall of Fame Celtics never even achieved. […]

When Rudy Gobert punched Kyle Anderson on the bench during Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Pelicans, one of the biggest questions of Minnesota Timberwolves fans is what Anderson said to Gobert that triggered the big man to be violent. The two were spotted to be on a heated discussion when Gobert suddenly lost it […]

The Memphis Grizzlies took a loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the final game of the regular season, but rookie Kenny Lofton Jr. made history in his first career start in the NBA. He scored 42 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in the Grizzlies’ 115-100 loss to the Thunder. Lofton Jr. was the first […]

Udonis Haslem played his final regular season game with the Miami Heat on Sunday, and ahead of his NBA retirement, Bam Adebayo hilariously made sure he’s all set up for life after basketball. As the Heat honored Haslem for his contributions to the team for two whole decades, Adebayo added some fun to it when […]

It came down to the absolute wire, but Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers are going to play Kevin Durant and the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the 2023 NBA playoffs. The Clippers defeated the Suns on the final day of the NBA season, which secured them into the fifth overall seed […]

It’s just a bad day to be a Minnesota Timberwolves fan. After Rudy Gobert punched his own teammate Kyle Anderson on the bench, the Wolves got more bad news when Jaden McDaniels injured his hand after punching, well, a wall. Making matters worse, these happened in the final game of the regular season against the […]

Kyrie Irving is set to hit free agency for the Dallas Mavericks this offseason after a disappointing stint following the trade deadline. The Mavs didn’t even make the play-in tournament amid a controversial decision to sit key players when it was still within reach. Needless to say, Mavs star Luka Doncic was not a fan […]

While a lot of Minnesota Timberwolves fans are concerned how Rudy Gobert’s altercation with Kyle Anderson will affect their bid to make the playoffs, team legend Kevin Garnett is not one bit worried about it. In fact, KG sees the incident as a positive catalyst that should help the Wolves tighten things up heading to […]

The Portland Trail Blazers season is now over after they fell 157-101 to the Golden State Warriors in the final game of the regular season. However, despite it being a game in which Blazers rookie wing Shaedon Sharpe and others continued to show promise, Portland clearly has their mind set on being much more successful […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves came into the final day of the NBA’s regular season looking to prep themselves for their upcoming play-in tournament game. Instead, an incident between center Rudy Gobert and guard Kyle Anderson is what is getting the headlines. Gobert punched Anderson on the Timberwolves bench after the two exchanged words, and the former […]

The NBA playoffs bracket–pending the results of the Play-In tournament–is set. And sure enough, the 2023 postseason is brewing to be another exciting affair with plenty of intriguing matchups to look forward to. The Eastern Conference is pretty top-heavy, with the likes of the Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers expected to dominate the […]

The No. 7 seed Los Angeles Lakers (43-39), after closing out their regular season with a 128-117 win over the Utah Jazz, wilt host the No. 8 seed Minnesota Timberwolves (42-40) in the play-in game on Tuesday at Crypto.com Arena. Following the regular season finale, various Lakers offered initial reactions to the Wolves matchup, which […]

It was only a couple of months ago when the Dallas Mavericks decided to bring Kyrie Irving to the team via trade with the Brooklyn Nets. Upon making the move, there was lots of hope from Mavericks fans this would be the move that could put the team on a path to the NBA Finals. […]

The Dallas Mavericks are going to be one of the main teams to follow this offseason, with All-Star guard Kyrie Irving set to reach free agency and All-NBA guard Luka Doncic under media scrutiny. However, while the focus of their offseason is on whether or not they can re-sign Kyrie and build a team around […]

If there’s one thing we have learned about Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green, it’s the fact he doesn’t forget things said about him. In fact, there probably isn’t many who keeps more receipts than the former Michigan State standout. So when Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert was caught punching his teammate, guard Kyle Anderson, […]

Teammates often get into arguments, but it is usually behind closed doors and rarely in games. But that was not the case when Rudy Gobert responded to teammate Kyle Anderson by throwing a punch and appearing to hit him in the chest. Shortly after the incident in Minnesota’s game against the New Orleans Pelicans, Gobert […]

Luka Doncic eased the worries of the Dallas Mavericks faithful even for a little bit after he refuted the reports that he could demand a trade from the team in 2024. For those who missed it, after the Mavs were officially eliminated from Play-In contention following a loss to the Chicago Bulls, a report emerged […]

The Dallas Mavericks did what many believe to be tanking against the Chicago Bulls on Friday night, and Luka Doncic was not a fan of the maneuver, according to Tim MacMahon of ESPN. “I didn’t like it. That’s it,” Luka Doncic said, according to MacMahon. The Mavericks end the season with a 38-44 record, and […]

It’s the last day of the NBA’s regular season, a time when teams should be fine tuning themselves for a playoff push. What’s being witnessed instead are occasions where temperatures are running hot, and the Los Angeles Clippers are catching the fever in the form of a scuffle between teammates Bones Hyland and Mason Plumlee. […]

The Golden State Warriors ended 2022-23 on a ringing high note Sunday, blowing out the tanking Portland Trail Blazers 157-101 to clinch a playoff berth. The defending champions have avoided the play-in tournament despite a topsy-turvy regular season, setting the stage for a highly anticipated battle with the Sacramento Kings in the first round of […]

Heading into its third edition, it’s clear that the NBA’s play-in tournament has been a massive success. More teams are trying and more games matter. In particular, the final week of this season was a barn-burner as the entire back half of the Western Conference playoff field jockeyed for position; just three games separate the […]

For the 14 teams that would miss the postseason, the 2023 NBA Draft looms as a beacon of hope to look forward to as they try to wash away the stench of their defeated past and build a sustainable contending squad for years to come. Thankfully for teams, life in the NBA functions differently as […]

The NBA churn never stops. At the conclusion of the 2023 NBA Finals, it will be time for every team–whether rebuilding, buying, or contending–to look for ways to improve their team, or, at the very least, mold their team into one that makes more sense given their timeline. And one way for teams to do […]