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The Philadelphia 76ers made a drastic decision following another year of playoff embarrassment. They decided to fire head coach Doc Rivers after their drought of appearances in the conference finals reached 23 years. An eventful offseason for the Sixers begins. Following a Game 7 where Joel Embiid and James Harden completely stunk it up, firing […]

The New York Knicks did not inspire much confidence among fans and pundits entering the 2022-23 season. After all, they only added Jalen Brunson to the core of their 37-win team the past season. But Brunson, despite not having the longest track record of stellar play, proved to be a transformative force as the Knicks […]

Back in the Eastern Conference Finals for the fifth time since 2017, the Boston Celtics will face a very familiar foe in the Miami Heat, who they defeated in the conference finals a season ago. Playing around with his rotations lately, Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla recently made the move to have center Robert Williams […]

What is going to happen with Ja Morant? The Memphis Grizzlies star is in trouble once again after flashing a handgun during an Instagram livestream. Already, Morant has been suspended from attending team activities for the time being. A suspension from the league is inevitable. The question is… how long will this suspension for Ja […]

For the second time in four years, the Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Lakers are gearing up to square off against one another in the Western Conference Finals. With both teams playing at remarkably high levels heading into round three, this series is expected to be a highly entertaining and hard-fought affair that has the […]

Al Horford and Blake Griffin are considered to be the elder statesmen on the Boston Celtics roster. After all, they are the two oldest members of the team. Horford is 36, while Griffin is 33. With their age comes the basketball wisdom that they are sharing with their younger Celtics teammates, and it’s particularly about […]

After being eliminated from the NBA Playoffs in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Sunday afternoon, the Philadelphia 76ers made the bold decision to relieve Doc Rivers of his duties as head coach of the team. While the move was deemed unsurprising by Fox Sports’ Colin Cowherd, he does believe that the decision […]

When the Lakers and Nuggets square off in the Western Conference Finals, the usual logic will be inverted. Somehow, the Nuggets are the high flying juggernaut led by a league-defining superstar at the peak of his powers. The Lakers are the plucky upstart who surged late in the season because of their chemistry and defense. […]

The Miami Heat have the bulk of their focus on their immediate task, which is facing the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals as they look to extend their postseason run. However, they likely can’t help but glance at their offseason schedule, especially with multiple players that are currently in their playoff rotation reaching […]

Brooklyn Nets guard Ben Simmons had another uneventful season where he was mostly nursing injuries on the sidelines. His former team, the Philadelphia 76ers, were recently eliminated from the 2023 NBA Playoffs, and Simmons took it as an opportunity to troll his old teammates on social media. Stephen A Smith saw the post, and was […]

And then there were four. The conference finals are just around the corner, which means franchises are getting closer and closer to the Larry O’Brien Trophy. That is the case for the Boston Celtics, who are trying to win the title for the first time since 2008. With their series against the Miami Heat starting […]

Patrick Ewing is undeniably one of the greatest players to ever don a New York Knicks jersey. He spent 15 years with the Knicks in what was one of the most successful stints in franchise history. And yet, we’re about to discuss the 1985 NBA Draft Lottery conspiracy involving all aforementioned players and David Stern. […]

The NBA Playoffs continue as the Miami Heat (44-38) visit the Boston Celtics (57-25) for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals! Action tips off Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. ET. To get to the Eastern Conference Finals, Miami took down New York in six while Boston eliminated Philadelphia in seven. Below we continue our NBA […]

The 2023 NBA Draft Lottery is officially upon us, with the ping-pong balls set to fall at 8 PM EST (5 PM PST) on Tuesday night. If you believe there’s more hype surrounding the draft lottery than usual, you are probably correct. That’s because we are expected to unofficially find out which team will draft […]

Less than 48 hours after the Philadelphia 76ers suffered a blowout loss in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, the Sixers dismissed head coach Doc Rivers, according to Adrian Wojnarowski. In three seasons with the Sixers, Rivers had an outstanding .653 winning percentage in the regular season. That was outweighed by three straight second-round […]

Just two days after flaming out of the NBA Playoffs, the Philadelphia 76ers have parted ways with veteran head coach Doc Rivers after three seasons at the helm. Shortly after the news broke, Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey spoke out on the decision to fire Rivers. “Doc is one of the most successful […]

The Utah Jazz are an… interesting team to follow. Last season, everyone expected them to be frontrunners for the first pick in the upcoming draft. However, they surprised everyone by turning into one of the better teams in the West. Unfortunately, they barely missed out on a Play-In Tournament spot. That doesn’t mean they’re done […]

Coaching in the NBA is a cutthroat affair. It’s both rewarding and deeply frustrating. For the triumvirate of Doc Rivers, Mike Budenholzer, and Monty Williams, it’s more of the latter following their respective teams’ handing them their walking papers. Their dismissals have also sent shockwaves across the league in large part because not many saw […]

The Los Angeles Lakers will reinitiate their pursuit for an NBA Finals ring on Tuesday night against the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals. Ahead of the matchup, Shannon Sharpe delivered a bold take on LeBron James‘ place in Lakers history if he were to win another ring. "If LeBron would have win [another] […]

Memphis Grizzlies star guard Ja Morant landed himself in hot water over the weekend, once again brandishing a firearm on social media while promoting a menacing image. Though it’s nothing criminal, his behavior is unbecoming of the face of a franchise. While he may be young, it’s worth wondering if Morant needs to mature or […]

The Philadelphia 76ers dropped a bomb on Tuesday morning, firing head coach Doc Rivers after just three seasons with the franchise — and the search for his replacement has already begun. “The Sixers’ search for a new coach is expected to include Mike Budenholzer, Sam Cassell, Mike D’Antoni, Nick Nurse, Frank Vogel and Monty Williams, […]

For ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith, the Boston Celtics are the team to beat among the four franchises who have made it to the conference finals round in the 2023 NBA Playoffs. “When you’re looking at the 4 teams remaining, it’s justifiable to call the Boston Celtics the favorite to win it all,” Smith said […]

For most of the world, 2020 is a reminder of a painful and overly long wasted year, what with the rapid spread of COVID-19 forcing lockdowns all over the globe and effectively changing life as we know it. But fans of the Los Angeles Lakers, at the very least, have something to fondly look back […]

The 2023 NBA Draft Lottery is set to take place on Tuesday night, and the hype surrounding the lottery is a lot higher than it typically is, and for good reason. That’s because highly-touted prospect Victor Wembanyama is expected to unofficially find out who his new team will be in the NBA when the results […]

After three seasons as the head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, Doc Rivers has been fired. The Sixers will be moving on from the veteran head coach after three years of disappointment in the playoffs. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski broke the news following the Sixers’ loss in the second round of the 2023 NBA playoffs. They […]

The Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets are the two remaining survivors within the Western Conference’s playoff race, with Game 1 of the conference finals slated to tip off Monday evening. The two franchises have a familiarity with one another, as they squared off on this same stage back during the 2020 NBA Playoffs, but […]

The Denver Nuggets have looked every bit the part of the Western Conference’s number-one seed. They’ve thoroughly dispatched the Minnesota Timberwolves and a depleted Phoenix Suns side with relative ease. Now, they face their biggest challenge yet in the Los Angeles Lakers, a rematch of the 2020 NBA Bubble Western Conference Finals. With Nuggets-Lakers set […]

The Miami Heat are back in the Eastern Conference Finals and preparing for a rematch with the Boston Celtics from the bubble in 2020. It should be a highly entertaining series between two fairly different teams, although both led by big names. As Game 1 tips off on Wednesday night, the Heat will be led […]

One of the biggest storylines of the upcoming 2023 Western Conference Finals between the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Lakers is the fact that this would be the second time in three years that these teams will be meeting in the same round. Nikola Jokic surely remembers that 2020 series in the bubble against […]

It was in October 2012 when the Houston Rockets, a franchise that’s always on the lookout for stars available on the trade market, swung a deal for James Harden that changed the course of the franchise. With Harden leading the way, the Rockets made the playoffs in every season from 2013 to 2020. In fact, […]

The Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets begin the Western Conference Finals on Tuesday at Ball Arena. As with the Miami Heat-Boston Celtics series, it’ll be a rematch of the 2020 conference finals in the bubble. The Lakers won in five, although LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and Michael Porter Jr. are […]

Soon after the Phoenix Suns lost their second-round series to the Denver Nuggets midway through last week, rumblings started surfacing suggesting that major shakeups could be coming. These could include big man Deandre Ayton being shopped on the trade market this coming summer. Despite his admission of being content with remaining part of the franchise […]

The 2023 NBA Draft Lottery is set to take place on Tuesday night, and it’s clear there is a lot on the line for the top teams looking to see how the ping-pong balls bounce. Everyone is expecting the team that lands the top pick in the draft to select Victor Wembanyama, and one such […]

The Phoenix Suns have a lot of questions to answer in the 2023 NBA offseason, and NBA executives do not expect Chris Paul to be on the roster when the 2023-2024 NBA season comes around, according to Sam Amico of Hoops Wire. The Suns are expected to explore a trade for Chris Paul, according to […]

The Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Lakers are back in the Western Conference Finals. But since they last played each other in 2020, only Nikola Jokic, LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. are on their original teams and the Lakers have a new coach in Darvin Ham. The Nuggets have barely […]

While the NBA Playoffs continue on, teams outside the postseason have their eyes on another event: the NBA Draft Lottery. The reason why is a 7-2 French unicorn named Victor Wembanyama. The hype behind Wembenyama has been immense, as he’s possibly the most-hyped NBA prospect since LeBron James entered the league 20 years ago. The […]

The stakes are high in the NBA Playoffs with the championship up for grabs for the best teams in the NBA. But while teams and players are expected to shine the brightest in the playoffs, not everyone is capable of playing with the pressure of the postseason. Let’s take a look at the 10 biggest […]

The 2023 Western Conference Finals between the No. 7 seed Los Angeles Lakers and No. 1 seed Denver Nuggets tips off Tuesday at Ball Arena. The stakes, intrigue, and quality of play both teams are bringing into this bubble rematch are Mile High. The Nuggets have been the class of the West all season, while […]

The Miami Heat did not enter the 2023 NBA playoffs with much fanfare. But now, after making quick work of the team with the best record in the NBA this past season in the Milwaukee Bucks and following that up with a hard-fought six-game series victory over the New York Knicks, it’s difficult to doubt […]