Loss

Yes, the Golden State Warriors employ four All-Stars. Yes, their bench, while shallower than in years past, remains one of the deepest in the NBA. Yes, they waltzed their way to a title last year. And yes, they remain heavy favorites to do so again this season. But that doesn’t matter. At their core, they’re [...]

The end of the 2017-28 season can’t come fast enough for the Memphis Grizzlies. A team that started the season 5-1 has dealt with a rash of injuries and has gone to a youth movement and has only won 14 of their last 66 games, including a 19-game losing streak that ended last weekend. One [...]

Kevin Durant hasn’t yet been playing with Stephen Curry for two full seasons, but he already finds it strange having to tackle the competition without him. This much was made clear by the lanky MVP after the Golden State Warriors fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves, who were playing without Jimmy Butler. Curry is on the [...]

Tom Thibodeau is done waiting on the Minnesota Timberwolves. Sure, they wrapped 2016-17 as the NBA’s youngest team. And yes, their two most important players, Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins, still get carded when buying scratch-off lotto tickets. And no, preseason letdowns aren’t supposed to send head coaches into a tizzy. But Thibs is mad [...]

Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals between the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs unfolded as you would expect knowing Kawhi Leonard wasn’t involved: The Spurs bent, and the Warriors rolled, winning 136-100. But Gregg Popovich was still left surprised. While he couldn’t have assumed the Spurs would win, he most certainly didn’t sound like [...]

James Harden picked one helluva time to lay an egg. Despite facing a San Antonio Spurs squad that was missing its best player, Kawhi Leonard, Harden and the Houston Rockets folded on Thursday night, losing the game by 39 points and the series 4-2. Harden, one of the MVP frontrunners, was absolutely atrocious. He had more [...]

Maybe you saw the Milwaukee Bucks winning their Game 3 matchup, at home, against the Toronto Raptors. Maybe you even saw them winning decisively. But there’s no way you saw this. The Bucks throttled the Raptors, 104-77, ending the game in the first quarter when they limited Toronto’s offense to just 12 points. They led by [...]

On Wednesday night Russell Westbrook may have set an NBA record with his 51-point triple-double, but that just wasn’t enough. His 51 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds were the most points ever scored in a playoff triple-double. But when it was over, all Westbrook could see was a 115-111 loss to the Rockets that [...]

The TNT Chicago Bulls are for real. So, too, are the Cleveland Cavaliers’ problems. The Cavaliers fell to those Bulls on Thursday night, 99-93. They are yet again a half-game behind the Eastern Conference’s new first-place team, the Boston Celtics, and LeBron James is officially sounding the alarm. From ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst: LeBron James said the [...]

Paul George wasn’t happy following the Indiana Pacers’ Tuesday night loss, at home, to the Minnesota Timberwolves. He was mad. Upset. Straight pissed off. And he was even more frustrated that the rest of his team wasn’t matching his anger. Per the Indianapolis Star‘s Nate Taylor and Nuvo.net’s Jon R. LaFollette: [tweet https://twitter.com/JonFilet/status/846906520050774016] [tweet https://twitter.com/ByNateTaylor/status/846909815964286976] Good thing [...]