New York Knicks fever has hit the Big Apple, and it might just take an arm and a leg for some fans to get inside Madison Square Garden for the team’s first NBA Finals appearance since 1999. Just as soon as the Knicks officially swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals on Monday, May 26, the demand to …

Last season in college basketball, two of the most historic programs in the sport met as the Indiana Hoosiers came to Lexington to take on Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats. In the revival of this rivalry, the Wildcats got the best of the Hoosiers, winning this game 72-60 thanks to a big second half from Pope’s team. Indiana led …

We have a fun episode of The Dunker Spot coming your way! First, Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones continue with their Conference Finals analysis! The New York Knicks have punched their ticket to the NBA Finals for the first time in nearly 30 years! The guys discuss how they sealed the deal and close the chapter on the Cavs’ season. …

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Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. The New York Knicks, recently an afterthought in the NBA championship picture, have surged to have an implied 30.1% chance to hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy.  Advertisement BetMGM’s NBA Finals odds show the Knicks are up from +2200 when the playoffs began to …

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The Cleveland Cavaliers didn’t trade for a one-year rental. All indicators point towards James Harden returning to the team this summer after opting out to restructure his deal. “Yes. 100%,” said Harden on whether he wants to be back in Cleveland. “Definitely want to be here. I think we found something. It’s tough not ending how we wanted to, but …

The Duke Blue Devils will enter next season as one of the top teams in all of college basketball once again, and the 2026-27 season might be their best chance in quite a while to secure a championship. The Blue Devils haven’t won a national title since the 2014-15 season. Since then, in their final seasons with head coach Mike …

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For the first time in 26 long years, the Knicks have advanced to the NBA Finals, and are now just four wins from heights unseen in half a century. Their eventual foe has yet to be determined, as the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder battle for the Western Conference in a 2-2 draw entering Game 5 on Tuesday …

Former North Carolina Tar Heels guard Seth Trimble hasn’t received much love in this year’s draft cycle, and it remains a long shot that the former Tar Heel captain will be drafted. Trimble is out of eligibility after exercising the last bit of it this past season. He spent all four seasons of his collegiate career in Chapel Hill, averaging …

The end for the Cleveland Cavaliers was cruel, with Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner celebrating on their court dressed in New York Knicks gear and embracing Knicks’ players like they were part of the win. The Knicks’ blowout put them in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999 and sent the Cavaliers into an uncomfortable offseason. Though Cleveland …

I will admit, I did not think that Michigan State basketball would be the center of one of the most interesting conversations surrounding the NBA draft and the next season of college basketball. A month ago, most of us assumed that Jeremy Fears Jr. would certainly be back in East Lansing next year, despite going through the NBA draft process. …

Game 1 was a confirmation of a cultural problem. The Cleveland Cavaliers surrendered a 22-point lead in the fourth quarter, not gradually, not begrudgingly, but as if they had simply decided to stop. The New York Knicks didn’t steal the game so much as Cleveland left it unlocked, engine running, keys in the ignition. What followed wasn’t a series. It …

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CLEVELAND — There were stretches throughout the postseason when Donovan Mitchell didn’t quite look himself. The burst and explosiveness to the basket weren’t there like we’ve become accustomed to in the past. So much so that it led to commentators speculating that maybe he was injured. Mitchell has been asked repeatedly throughout the postseason about whether he was injured. He’d …

It’s never too early to start comparing Duke and North Carolina, even if it’s in May. The Blue Devils are looking for revenge on the Tar Heels after Seth Trimble knocked down a three-pointer at the buzzer in Chapel Hill to hand the Heels a win over Duke last year. Nonetheless, both clubs had vastly different 2025-26 seasons. Advertisement Duke …

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The 2026 Western Conference Finals return to Oklahoma City on Tuesday, May 26 for a pivotal Game 5, with the series now tied 2-2 after San Antonio seized momentum with a commanding Game 4 win. The Thunder also still face the possibility of being without star forward Jalen Williams for Tuesday’s game. Williams remains questionable for the critical matchup against …

Anyone who keeps up with the North Carolina Tar Heels’ basketball program knows what is at stake for head coach Michael Malone and this team in the next 24 hours. Matt Able, who signed with North Carolina as a transfer from North Carolina State, is still in the process of making his decision whether to stay in the 2026 NBA …

On May 9, 2016 Steph scored a record 17 points in an OT period to lead the Warriors over the Trail Blazers. Never miss a moment … Source link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHnmZi10TrE Author : Publish date : [publish_date] Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

“The Western Conference Finals are the real NBA Finals.” We all read that or heard it on a podcast just a week ago, before the two conference finals rounds tipped off. Versions of it have popped up again in the past handful of days to push back because exuberant Knicks fans, who are feeling themselves after watching their team destroy …

Former UCLA point guard Donovan Dent is calling it a career after his lone season with the Bruins, opting not to pursue a professional career at any level. Dent was a standout point guard and leader of a loaded Corona Centennial High School squad that also featured current NBA star Jared McCain. After a great high school career, Dent landed …

Today it was announced that NC State transfer Matt Able withdrew from the NBA Draft, and he will officially play for UNC for the 2026-27 season. His decision to officially make his way to campus is the break that Michael Malone and his staff needed after Henri Veesaar decided that he was done with college. Able faced a tough decision …