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It has been 30 years since a team lost all six of their games against a team in a single season without facing that said team in the playoffs. But the Sacramento Kings did just that; the New Orleans Pelicans, in a rare showcase of domination over a single team in a single season, defeated […]

The New York Knicks are in a precarious position. They won 50 games and secured the second-seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs. But there is also an on-going debate about their chances of advancing beyond the first-round, which is unusual for a second-seed.  Still the Knicks know better than anyone what they are capable of, […]

It might be time for the Chicago Bulls to face the music and embrace a potential rebuild. Following the Bulls’ 112-91 loss to the Miami Heat on Friday night, their season has come to an end in the play-in tournament for two consecutive seasons now. It has become evident that the ceiling of this team […]

It has been a disappointing past two seasons for the Chicago Bulls. In 2022, it appeared as though they were on the rise, making the playoffs as the six-seed with 46 wins. The Bulls, however, were unable to keep up that pace. In the two years since, the Bulls have seen their season come to […]

In a repeat of last season, the Miami Heat have earned the eight-seed in the Eastern Conference with a victory in the play-in tournament against the Chicago Bulls. This time, however, the Heat won more convincingly. Last season, they had to put up a stellar fourth quarter effort to end up winning by 11, but […]

On Wednesday evening, Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks saw a disastrous 2023-24 season come to a blissful end with a road demolition at the hands of the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the NBA Play-In Tournament. While they weren’t exactly championship favorites heading into the year, the expectation was that the Hawks […]

The Miami Heat have punched their ticket into the NBA Playoffs after beating the Chicago Bulls, 112-91, in the play-in tournament Friday night. However, they now have to face the No. 1 seeded Boston Celtics in the first round as stars Bam Adebayo, Jaime Jaquez Jr. along with Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra talks about […]

As the Orlando Magic gear up for their first NBA Playoff game since the 2019-20 season, they find themselves poised for a strategic showdown against the Cleveland Cavaliers. The series opener is set for Saturday at 1 PM ET at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, promising intense competition and pivotal matchups, particularly involving Orlando’s defensive strategy against […]

DALLAS — The term “X-factor” is often thrown around far too loosely in sports. Of course, Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving are superstars for the Dallas Mavericks. Emerging as an X-factor for a sports team, though, often refers to a player who was overlooked and ended up playing a pivotal role. Daniel Gafford and PJ […]

After a phenomenal regular season, the Minnesota Timberwolves are rolling into the 2024 NBA Playoffs with a lot to prove. Their trio of All-Star talents have their resumes on the line. Karl-Anthony Towns has yet to showcase his talent consistently in postseason. Rudy Gobert has narratives to wipe away. Anthony Edwards’ path to superstardom has […]

On Saturday afternoon, Kevin Durant and the Phoenix Suns will begin their foray into the 2024 NBA postseason with Game 1 of their first round series vs the Timberwolves, in which they are favored despite being the lower seed. It was a bit of an up and down year for Phoenix, as Durant continued to […]

The Chicago Bulls finished up yet another mediocre season on Friday night as they lost to the Miami Heat in the NBA play-in tournament. It was a disappointing season, so it was fitting for it to end in disappointing fashion. The Bulls got out to a good start in Miami as they hit a few […]

The Miami Heat beat the Chicago Bulls, 112-91, in the NBA Play-in Tournament as they have won the eighth seed and the right to face the No. 1 seeded Boston Celtics in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Noise around the organization was grim with the injury to star Jimmy Butler and the continued […]

Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks are currently gearing up for their upcoming first round playoff series vs the Philadelphia 76ers, who earned their way into the seventh seed position by knocking off the Miami Heat on Wednesday evening in one of the Eastern Conference Play-In games. Meanwhile, the Knicks have been rolling for […]

The Milwaukee Bucks come into the 2024 NBA Playoffs a far cry from where they began the season. When they added Damian Lillard before the season began, it was thought that with a new Big 3 of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton and Lillard, the Bucks would be a championship contender. But the Bucks have been […]

The Atlanta Hawks’ 2023-24 season is officially in the books. They gave way to the Chicago Bulls in the bottom half of the Eastern Conference Play-In Tournament and lost 131-116. It was a very disappointing season for the Hawks after they pushed the Boston Celtics to six games in the playoffs last year. But now […]

The Toronto Raptors’ topsy-turvy 2023-24 season is behind them. The Raptors gave the Scottie Barnes, Pascal Siakam, and OG Anunoby trio one more chance to prove it is a core worth building around. Toronto started the season 15-25 through their first 40 games before opting to pull the plug. The Raptors dished Siakam and Anunoby […]

Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks are currently gearing up for their upcoming first round playoff series vs the Los Angeles Clippers, the team that sent them home both in 2020 as part of the NBA Bubble and during the COVID-impacted 2021 postseason. The Mavericks undoubtedly peaked at the right time this regular season, winning […]

For all the x-factors and adjustments, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Round 1 series vs. the Denver Nuggets may simply boil down to what most NBA Playoffs series do: stars. In this case, will LeBron James and Anthony Davis outperform Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray? Including the 2023 Western Conference finals, the Nuggets have won eight […]

The Los Angeles Clippers are entering a pivotal postseason, as questions about their future could be answered based on how they perform in the coming weeks, and possibly months. A grueling first-round matchup versus Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks only adds to the pressure burdening this franchise. Though, owner Steve Ballmer is going to […]

We’ve got the NBA 2K24 2KTV Episode 33 Answers to help answer questions and receive some much needed VC. For newcomers, 2KTV is a weekly in-game program hosted by Alexis Morgan and Chris Manning. The show itself features a wide variety of content from fan highlights to real player interviews. However, we know most people […]

Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers are currently gearing up for their upcoming first round NBA playoff series vs Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks, which will begin on Sunday afternoon from the Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles. Despite the unfounded public perception that Doncic “owns” the Clippers, Los Angeles has actually faired […]

The Los Angeles Lakers come into the 2024 NBA Playoffs with a little bit of momentum. After hovering around the 9-11 range for most of the season, they used strong play, and a little help from teams ahead of them, to surge into the 7-8 range in the waining days of the regular season. As […]

On Wednesday evening, Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks saw their season come to an unceremonious end with a brutal blowout Play-In game loss to the Chicago Bulls on the road, signaling the conclusion of what had been a disastrous 2023-24 campaign on multiple fronts for an Atlanta team that was expected to compete for […]

The NBA’s 82-game regular season can be a grind, but the Boston Celtics made most of the 2023-24 campaign look easy. They finished with the league’s best overall record at 64-18, which happened to be the franchise’s best win total since 2008. That season was when the Celtics won their last championship, and they’re hoping […]

It’s been a roller coaster of a season for the Milwaukee Bucks, but they aim to make a deep run in the playoffs regardless. The team is facing struggles ahead of their postseason matchup against the Indiana Pacers, as Giannis Antetokounmpo is dealing with injuries and Damian Lillard has problems of his own. Stephen A. […]

It might seem like a dream, but there was a time when Dwayne Wade wasn’t a member of the Miami Heat. After massive success with LeBron James and Chris Bosh from 2010-2014, Wade stayed on with the team for two years before a short stint with the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers before being traded […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are facing a tough test in the NBA Playoffs as they battle the Denver Nuggets in the first round. They are heavy underdogs in the series, and for good reason. After all, Nikola Jokic and Co. swept them in last year’s West Finals meeting. For LA legend Magic Johnson, however, the […]

Victor Wembanyama was a must-watch phenomenon during his rookie campaign with the San Antonio Spurs. To finish out the year, the Spurs superstar spoke about a number of topics, from his defensive prowess, to what he learned most through an NBA rookie season that saw his team lose 60 of 82 games and other subjects […]

With a Sacramento Kings Play-In Game coming up against the New Orleans Pelicans, many eyes will be on the Kings. Ahead of the Kings-Pelicans, we’ll be making our Kings Play-In predictions. The Kings had an outstanding performance in their first Play-In matchup against the Golden State Warriors. They cruised to a 118-94 win, with their […]

The Miami Heat made it all the way to the NBA Finals last year against the eventual champion Denver Nuggets. This year they will be hard-pressed to get past the play-in round. “This is something we want to do for him…we’re going to make sure we do everything we can to win this game.” Jaime […]

The Miami Heat was hit with a brutal blow as their main star in Jimmy Butler suffered an MCL sprain in the loss to the Philadelphia 76ers which will keep him out for several weeks. Before the do-or-die game against the Chicago Bulls in the NBA Play-In Tournament, Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra spoke about […]

Jontay Porter’s net worth in 2024 is $6 million. Porter is a professional basketball player who last played for the Toronto Raptors in the NBA. He was recently handed a lifetime ban by the NBA. In addition to this, he is also known as the younger brother of Denver Nuggets player Michael Porter Jr. Let’s […]

The Atlanta Hawks’ 2023-24 season came to a conclusion on Wednesday. The Chicago Bulls eliminated them from the NBA postseason with a 131-116 drubbing in the bottom half of the Eastern Conference Play-In Tournament. That left the Hawks with an assortment of questions they will have to answer in the offseason. The most pressing would […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves had an amazing season that deserves to be celebrated. Anthony Edwards emerged as a star who led the franchise through a prolonged period of time without All-Star forward Karl Anthony-Towns, who 18 games with a lateral meniscus tear in his left knee. Meanwhile, the trade for Rudy Gobert seems to be paying […]

Nike continues to expand the sneaker archive of Los Angeles Lakers’ legend Kobe Bryant with a plethora of releases throughout the significant year of 2024. The brand recently celebrated Kobe on April 13, or “Mamba Day,” on the eighth anniversary of his final game for the Lakers on the same date. Now, Nike will celebrate […]

LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers are set to take on 2023 NBA Finals MVP Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets on Saturday evening at 8:30 p.m., with James’ status as GOAT (Greatest of All-Time) currently being debated with a ferocious intensity among NBA analysts. If James and the Lakers can knock off the […]

Following their unceremonious exit from the NBA Play-In tournament at the hands of the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday, the Atlanta Hawks are making a key addition to the front office. Per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the team has hired Onsi Saleh to be an assistant general manager. “ESPN Sources: Atlanta is hiring Golden State’s Onsi Saleh […]

The Philadelphia 76ers barely scraped past the Miami Heat in their Play-In Tournament matchup with a 106-105 victory, setting themselves up for a first-round playoffs series with the New York Knicks. The Heat, on the other hand, now have to find a way to keep their season alive without star forward Jimmy Butler, who ended […]