NBA Playoffs

On Sunday night’s game one win (107-92) over the defending champs—Spurs. The Clippers played a very efficient game, especially at the offensive end with Chris Paul’s game-high of 32 points, 7 rebounds, and 6 assists. While on the other side, it was Kawhi Leonard for the Spurs, who led the way with a quiet 18 [...]

Of the few high-profile NBA free-agent flight risks that are must-watch case studies entering the 2015 offseason, LaMarcus Aldridge has never been one of them. Not since last summer at least. It was then that it became clear he wanted to remain with the Portland Trail Blazers. They were on the up and up following [...]

Welp, here we are, at the end of another NBA regular season, preparing for a postseason gauntlet that, for the first time in five years, won’t include the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Thunder did their part on Wednesday night, slaughtering the tanking Minnesota Timberwolves 138-113. Russell Westbrook did Russell Westbrook things, exploding for 37 points, [...]

Russell Westbrook giveth, and he taketh away. In the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 116-104 loss to the Indiana Pacers on Sunday, he tooketh away. He didn’t cost the Thunder a victory per se. He tallied a career-high 54 points to go along with nine rebounds and eight assists—another superhuman stat line for a desperately energetic player [...]

To all NBA playoff-bound squads, to all postseason hopefuls, to all those teams scrapping and clawing and battling through injuries as the league’s Big Dance nears, the San Antonio Spurs have a message: They don’t care. Just 2.5 games separate the Spurs from a top-four playoff spot. Only 3.5 stand between them and the Western [...]

Isaiah Thomas is the right player at the right time for the Boston Celtics. Somewhat sneakily, the Celtics entered the trade-deadline field, helping the Phoenix Suns blow up their roster. They basically picked up Thomas for pennies on the dollar, per ESPN.com’s Jeff Goodman: [tweet https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/568503093798838272] Marcus Thornton was not part of the Celtics’ future, [...]

Thaddeus Young believes in the Minnesota Timberwolves. It’s been forever since the Timberwolves made the playoffs (i.e. 10 years). Not even Kevin Love was enough to slingshot them up the Western Conference standings and into the postseason. That’s one of the many reasons why dealing him was so painful: He’s a superstar, and superstars help [...]

There is no denying it, the Oklahoma City Thunder are in deep trouble. With the injury to Westbrook Thursday night against the Clippers, the Thunder will now be without their top two superstars for the next 20 games more than likely. Immediate Impact: Losing your top two players is extremely difficult for any franchise to [...]

If you didn’t already know the New York Knicks hired Derek Fisher, you’d think Jeff Van Gundy was still angling for their head coaching position. During an interview with Anthony Donahue for his Internet radio show on The Knicks Blog, Van Gundy said some pretty nice things about the Knicks. Like, for instance, he thinks [...]

Everyone has one of those days, when at the end of it, all you want is a nice, tall, cold water. Er, I mean beer. Or bourbon. Or vodka. Any alcohol really. And why the hell not? Consumed in moderation, cocktails can help alleviate stress. I think. Maybe. For some people, most definitely. Los Angeles [...]