Playoffs

The Golden State Warriors were able to make easy work of a Kawhi Leonard-less San Antonio Spurs team in the 1st round of the 2018 NBA Playoffs without their two-time MVP award winning point guard Steph Curry, but a 2nd round tilt with the scorching-hot New Orleans Pelicans may not be so easy. But have [...]

Otto Porter has not always looked like himself during the Washington Wizards’ first-round playoff series with the Toronto Raptors. He’s tallied over 30 minutes in four of the first five games, but he doesn’t look as comfortable moving off the ball on offense, and he’s fallen behind Toronto’s ball-handlers at times on the other end. [...]

Hassan Whiteside remains unhappy with how the Miami Heat are using him. He made that much clear following their Game 5 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday, in which he logged just over 10 minutes. Here are the greatest hits from his postgame availability, courtesy of the Sun-Sentinel‘s Ira Winderman: Asked specifically what stood as [...]

The New Orleans Pelicans are the NBA playoff team no one saw coming. They weren’t supposed to be the first squad that secured entry into Round 2. Few people picked them to beat the Portland Trail Blazers at all. They sure as hell weren’t supposed to complete a sweep—and be the only team to do [...]

There has been plenty of talk about the NBA going to a non-conference affiliated playoff seeding system where teams 1-16 would be seeded by record and not by conference. While that seems unlikely to become a reality in the near future because of the extra travel and necessity that is created to further balance the [...]

It is pretty crazy how a week can erase all of the goodwill built up during a 82 game season. After finishing at 49-33 and earning the No. 3 seed in the western conference, the Portland Trailblazers were riding high and it seemed like they could be a contender, fast forward 8 days into the [...]

The Golden State Warriors have picked up where they left off last postseason, winning their first three games of their seven-game series against the Spurs with ease and seemingly coasting to the second round of the playoffs. Then enter former MVP Steph Curry back into the lineup right? Not so fast. According to a report [...]

Joel Embiid seems like he’s done watching the Philadelphia 76ers’ playoff campaign unfold from the sidelines. The big man has missed the past 10 games, both regular season and postseason, after having surgery to repair an orbital fracture near his left eye. Though the Sixers won the first nine of those contests without him, their [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves punched their ticket to the 2018 NBA Playoffs last night in what amounted to a play-in game with the Denver Nuggets in Minnesota, winning 112-106 in overtime. Why is this particularly noteworthy? Because the last time the Wolves were playing playoff basketball their three best players were Kevin Garnett, Latrell Spreewell and [...]

The Boston Celtics are limping into the 2018 NBA Playoffs as their three best guards will likely be out for their first round match-up. Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward will be out for the entire postseason, but Marcus Smart is recovering from a hand injury (suffered by punching something after a game) and could be [...]