Playoffs

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 [...]

Rajon Rondo believes the Bulls’ first-round matchup would have ended a lot differently if not for his injury. Rondo missed the last four games of the first round because of a fractured thumb, but believes Chicago would have beat the Celtics had he been healthy enough to compete. In fact, Rondo believes the Bulls, who [...]

LeBron James played all but 17 minutes of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ first round sweep over the Indiana Pacers. He’s averaging 43.8 ticks per game overall, a ridiculously high number no one else in the postseason is matching thus far. Might the Cavaliers be worried about overworking James, their 14-year veteran, who has logged the fourth-most playoff [...]

As if injuries to Kevin Durant (calf strain) and Shaun Livingston (finger) weren’t enough, the Golden State Warriors aren’t sure whether they’ll have head coach Steve Kerr on the sidelines during the remainder of their playoff run. Kerr missed the Warriors’ come-from-behind Game 3 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday and announced on [...]

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 [...]

It would be understandable if the Portland Trail Blazers were relieved that they made the NBA playoffs. For a while, it looked like they wouldn’t. Even after they got hot, Jusuf Nurkic went down, and it kind of seemed like they might be done, too. They’re weren’t. They’re in the playoffs, having clinched a spot [...]

All is not well in title town, the Cleveland Cavaliers are barely playing .500 basketball, struggling against any team over .500 in either conference and LeBron James is tossing his goggles minutes into a game out of mere frustration. Seriously though the Cavaliers look vulnerable and now only have a half game lead for the [...]

For all of LeBron James’s seemingly endless talents on a basketball court, shooting free-throws hasn’t always been one of his fortes. James is a 74 percent shooter from the charity stripe for his career, but has struggled this season and is shooting a career-low at 67 percent. LeBron, the perfectionist that he is, is highly [...]

On Tuesday night, the New York Knicks beat the Indiana Pacers, while the Detroit Pistons lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Naturally, the ‘Bockers are back to talking about their playoff push, right? Actually, no. Head coach Jeff Hornacek conceded afterward that making the postseason is, at this stage, an unrealistic goal, per Newsday‘s Al Iannazzone: Hornacek [...]