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Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. LeBron James can only do so much as the Los Angeles Lakers try in vain to stave off elimination against the overpowering Oklahoma City Thunder tonight at Crypto.com Arena. Advertisement My Thunder vs. Lakers predictions and NBA picks expect so little from Los Angeles that …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. The Cleveland Cavaliers looked dead in the water after the first two games vs. the Detroit Pistons, but a home win in Game 3 injected new life into Donovan Mitchell & Co. Advertisement We’ve cooked up a Pistons vs. Cavaliers same-game parlay that’s …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. With the Oklahoma City Thunder in cruise control against the Los Angeles Lakers, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander doesn’t need to force the issue tonight. Advertisement This Thunder vs. Lakers same-game parlay doesn’t expect a dud from the OKC star, but an efficient, low-exposure game that …

Now that the draft lottery is over, people can start to make some educated guesses about who goes to what team. Here’s an interesting factor we had not considered: not only is Carlos Boozer Cameron Boozer’s father, he’s also a scout for the Utah Jazz, and the Jazz hold the #2 pick. Advertisement Utah can get an 18-year scouting report …

What did Sunday night’s Game 5 win take for the Minnesota Timberwolves? “Some heart,” Rudy Gobert said to the Target Center crowd after the madness had ended. Where do we even start? Perhaps the part where this should have been less close than it ended up as with a sharp elbow to the face? Advertisement With 8:39 left in the …

INDEPENDENCE — The Cleveland Cavaliers won Game 3 against the Detroit Pistons, but in a way that their head coach called “unsustainable” 15 minutes after the final buzzer. The next day after practice, he echoed those same sentiments. “I hate to keep bringing up that possession game stat, -14,” Kenny Atknison said about Game 3. “I think there’s a big …

The New York Knicks are headed back to the Eastern Conference Finals for the second consecutive season after completing a dominating sweep of the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday afternoon. After falling behind 2-1 against the Atlanta Hawks in the Quarterfinals, there were questions to if this current Knicks nucleus could win in the postseason and make a realistic push for …

The 2026 NBA Draft lottery is in the books. Every NBA team knows when it’s drafting in the 2026 NBA Draft, and so now the evaluation process begins in full. Front office personnel from around the league, top prospects and their agents have all convened in Chicago this week for the annual NBA draft combine. The entire draft class typically …

Context matters when breaking down sports. “A banged-up Joel Embiid lost in the second round of the NBA Playoffs,” sounds like a familiar story, but that’s only if you ignore everything that’s happened over the last two-plus years. Advertisement Sure, there was plenty of disappointment after the Sixers were crushed in Game 4 Sunday by the New York Knicks to …

PHILADELPHIA — “Let’s go Knicks,” they roared early as the 3-pointers fell like an avalanche. “Deuce,” they bellowed after every one of Miles McBride’s seven 3-pointers. “Knicks in four,” they chanted as the road team piled it on. Advertisement Technically, Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals was a road game for the Knicks. It just didn’t feel anything like …

Winning is a family affair for Jalen Brunson, and he made sure to celebrate the Knicks’ 144-114 series-clinching victory over the 76ers as such. The Knicks star was captured sweetly celebrating the win with his family after he put up 22 points in 28 minutes in Game 4 at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Sunday, while shooting 8-of-17 from the floor …

Only 34 of the 471 teams that have fallen behind 2-0 in an NBA playoff series have come back and won the series. The Cleveland Cavaliers are trying to become the 35th team to do so as they attempt to climb out of that hole against the Detroit Pistons. Winning Game 4 and evening the series would go a long …

Victor Wembanyama had never been in this spot before. After a Flagrant 2 foul was announced following a review when Wembanyama delivered an elbow to Naz Reid’s neck midway through the second quarter of Game 4, he needed to ask Spurs teammate Harrison Barnes, “What does that mean?” Advertisement And when Barnes answered Wembanyama’s question — a moment that was …

In what has a chance to be one of the most important nights in Jazz history, the Utah Jazz jumped in the NBA Lottery to the #2 spot for the upcoming NBA draft. Here are the final results, which show all the movement. Postition Team Lottery Movement 1 Washington Wizards Stayed 2 Utah Jazz Up 2 3 Memphis Grizzlies Up …

PHILADELPHIA — Karl-Anthony Towns’ transformation has been remarkable. He recorded 10 more assists in the Knicks’ 144-114 Game 4 bludgeoning of the 76ers on Sunday to finish their series sweep. Nine of those assists came in the 16 minutes he played in the first half. Advertisement His final total could have been much higher, but he only needed to play …

Not sure if you heard, but the Brooklyn Nets fell to the sixth overall pick in the 2026 NBA Draft. If you want to hear the longest F-bomb in the history of Locked on Nets, hosted by Erik Slater, here’s Sunday’s episode, where Slater and I talked and groaned through the latest Brooklyn Nets disappointment… Terance Mann provided a more …

Victor Wembanyama was ejected for the first time in his NBA career – for elbowing an opponent – as his San Antonio Spurs side were beaten 114-109 by the Minnesota Timberwolves in game four of the Western Conference semi-finals. France international Wembanyama, 22, had grabbed the rebound of a missed Spurs three-pointer early in the second quarter and was protecting …

The Western Conference Semifinals between the Spurs and the Timberwolves keeps providing memorable matchups. On Sunday, Victor Wembanyama’s first-half ejection threatened to create a throwaway game, but the Silver and Black responded without their best player and battled to the very end before losing a heartbreaker, 114-109. The series will move back to San Antonio for Game 5 tied 2-2. …

Now on the brink of elimination, the Los Angeles Lakers look to avoid being swept in Game 4 against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday. Start time and TV schedule Who: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder Advertisement When: 7:30 p.m. PT, May 7 Where: Crypto.com Arena Watch: Prime Video Unless the Lakers have a miracle in them to come back from …

Sunday’s NBA draft lottery provided a bit of a surprise and some unfortunate good luck for the Clippers, who saw the Thunder not jump into the top four while also having the Pacers slip, resulting in the other LA team picking fifth. The Wizards secured the top pick, a familiar place for an Anthony Davis team to be, while the …

The conference semi-finals round of the playoffs is underway and we’ve seen a more intense, higher level of play and some surprises. There should be plenty of drama and potential upsets in this round — and it is only going to get better as we move deeper into the postseason. This is the best time of the year for NBA …

It feels ironic that the Washington Wizards became the first team with the worst record to get the No. 1 pick since the NBA switched to these new lottery odds — just in time for the league to change everything next year to “fix” tanking. Again. The way the ping-pong balls bounced this year left some big winners and some …

PHILADELPHIA – A few notes from Game 4 of the Knicks’ sweep of the Sixers: AWAKENED IN ATLANTA The seeds for the Knicks’ demolition in Philadelphia were planted about three weeks ago. The Knicks, in Miles McBride’s words, got “punched in the mouth” by the Hawks in Game 3 of their first-round series. Advertisement Instead of wilting, New York considered …

San Antonio Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson had to field questions about his superstar center after his first career ejection in Game 4 against the Minnesota Timberwolves on May 10. Victor Wembanyama was ejected in the second quarter after pulling in a rebound and delivering an intentional elbow to the throat of Naz Reid after being swarmed by him and …

It’s hard to hear after a division rival took over their building and swept them out of the playoffs, but the 2025-26 season was a pretty high-end outcome for the Sixers. They beat the Boston Celtics in a playoff series, Joel Embiid has felt as good as he has about his left knee since January 2024, but most importantly, they …