Playoffs

It became official Friday that despite Curry’s belief and desire that he would make his playoff return in Game 3 of the Warriors 2nd round series against the Blazers he is being ruled out for the game. [tweet https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/728619968246493192] He has missed the past three postseason games after spraining his MCL in his right knee [...]

LeBron James is ready for the Eastern Conference Finals to start. Especially if it pits his Cleveland Cavaliers against the Miami Heat. From Dave McMenamin of ESPN.com: “Naturally, of course,” James said after Cavs shootaround Wednesday morning, when asked about the chance to play the Heat. “That’s since I’ve came back. It’d be great to [...]

Kyle Lowry has struggled mightily this postseason, there is no way to sugarcoat it. He went 3-for-13 last night in the Raptors 102-96 Game 1 loss to the Miami Heat at home, even though he hit this miracle shot to send the game to overtime… [tweet https://twitter.com/WillHillBet/status/727757150039113728] He has shot 34-for-111 this postseason from the [...]

Someone sound the “Stephen Curry is on his way back” alarm. In roughly four to six days. Curry has missed all but two of the Golden State Warriors’ playoff tilts, including the last three, all of which were wins. But he could be returning from his sprained left knee soon. How soon? Very soon. Per [...]

With the second round of the playoffs underway let’s take a look back at some of the best moments of the first round of the 2016 NBA Playoffs. Please enable Javascript to watch this video [...]

The NBA’s referees from Monday night’s Game 2 matchup between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference semifinals have a message to deliver: Oops. In the closing seconds of Oklahoma City’s 98-97 win over San Antonio, Dion Waiters was inbounding the ball and elbowed Manu Ginobili from the sidelines. Nothing [...]

It took six games of mostly ugly basketball, but the Atlanta Hawks did it: They eliminated the shorthanded Boston Celtics and are advancing through to the second round of the playoffs, where the Cleveland Cavaliers await. The same Cleveland Cavaliers that swept them in the Eastern Conference Finals last year? Those same ones. Only healthier. [...]

We are nearing the end of an eventful and injury riddled first round of the postseason as the four elite teams in the NBA have already advanced while the other four series are up for grabs. We are treated to four Game 6’s over the next two days including Game 6 of the Hawks and [...]

No one expected the Portland Trail Blazers to make the NBA playoffs after losing four of last season’s five starters. And yet, here they are, in the postseason, all notched up with the Los Angeles Clippers in their best-of-seven series, at two games apiece, with a real chance to be more than a low-level steppingstone. [...]

Through two games in the Miami Heat’s first round series with the Charlotte Hornets they are averaging 119 points per game, shooting 57.8 percent from the field and 52.9 percent from the three point range. Although those numbers are a bit of an aberration and can’t be maintained over a larger sample size, it should [...]