Playoffs

The Detroit Pistons are not going to make the playoffs. That much has become clear. Their chances were already plummeting, but they cratered even further following a loss to the Miami Heat. They then imploded after getting waxed by the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night. And coach-president Stan Van Gundy doesn’t care. On the heels [...]

Donovan Mitchell hears the Rookie of the Year buzz. He knows that he has become a legitimate challenger to unseat Ben Simmons’ once-irreversible claim to the award. He thinks it cool. He’s honored. He also doesn’t really care. As the Utah Jazz’s newbie told SLAM‘s Max Resetar, while he appreciates the Rookie of the Year love, [...]

It is no secret things aren’t going too well in Cleveland as of late, the Cavaliers are 3-9 in their last 12 games since losing to the Golden State Warriors on Christmas Day. Their already leaky defense has been borderline historically bad over the past few weeks, and the Cavaliers were embarrased on national TV [...]

Kristaps Porzingis continues to endear himself to New York Knicks fans everywhere. Yes, the points and blocks and big shots matter. He’s averaging 30 points on career-best shooting percentages. He profiles as the NBA’s stingiest rim protector, according to NBA.com. He frustrated the hell out of Dwight Howard during the Knicks’ Tuesday night victory over [...]

The New York Knicks’ $71 million man has high hopes for this season. And he might be the only one. From the New York Daily News‘ Justin Tasch: Returning Knick Tim Hardaway Jr.’s intentions are pure, but this comment immediately conjures up images of former Indianapolis Colts coach Jim Mora’s famous playoffs rant from 2001. “My [...]

The Orlando Magic have one of the longer postseason droughts in the NBA, they haven’t made the playoffs since trading Dwight Howard in 2012 and starting their rebuild. After making the (bizarre) decision to completely blow up their young core that had been progressing together by trading Tobias Harris and Victor Oladipo, the one young [...]

Usually losing the best free agent on the market and a max level contract player can set back an NBA franchise for years and make them a much worse team overnight, look at the Cavaliers when LeBron James left for Miami in 2010, until he came back and saved them of course, but that won’t [...]

The 2017 NBA off-season is in full swing and after Gordon Hayward’s free agency signing with the Boston Celtics, one would assume all of the biggest free agents or trade targets have found their new homes or decided to stay put. The migration of even more talent to the western conference this off-season is stupefying [...]

John Wall knows the Washington Wizards need to work on deepening their bench, which is to say, he has eyes. As he told CSN Mid-Atlantic’s Chris Miller (via CSN Mid-Atlantic’s Chase Hughes): Each time John Wall and the Wizards have made the playoffs, they have advanced past the first round and fallen in the Eastern Conference [...]

Stephen Curry has always been an offensive nightmare for defenses, but things tend to change in the playoffs. He’s always slightly less efficient, and he appears to go through protracted slumps or complete vanishing acts. Not this year, though. Curry is averaging 28.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.7 steals per game through the Golden [...]