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The Cleveland Cavaliers tied up the season series with a 112-103 Game 4 win at home. The series turns back to Detroit for Game 5 and a chance for either team to set themselves up for a closeout Game 6. Cleveland has gone 6-0 at home in the playoffs, but 0-5 on the road. The Cavaliers have lost by double …

The postseason has been tough for Keldon Johnson. Ever since winning NBA Sixth Man of the Year, he’s struggled to maintain the vitality that earned him the league honor. This season the Spurs had seven players average scoring in double figures. *Harrison Barnes was 5 points from the Spurs having eight players in double figs, which would have been an …

We are fully in draft season now. With a lauded class of athletes entering the draft this cycle — barring some unexpected withdrawals — there will surely be differing opinions for the Hawks at number eight overall. Advertisement Let’s do a quick check-in on who different media members project the Hawks to take, pre-combine edition: Jeremy Woo of ESPN gets …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. Has this series truly started? Per the trusted adage, a playoff series does not begin until a road team wins a game. Advertisement While the Detroit Pistons looked dominant to start, the Cleveland Cavaliers responded with two consecutive wins when action shifted to …

The team with the worst record in the NBA had never won the draft lottery since the league reformed the odds ahead of the 2019 draft. The Washington Wizards changed that on Sunday, capitalizing on a truly awful 17-win season that featured blatant tanking to earn the type of lottery luck this franchise desperately needed. The Wizards haven’t won 50 …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. Star guards are providing the central narratives for this Eastern Conference clash. The Detroit Pistons will go as far as Cade Cunningham takes them, while Clevland Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell is pushing with all his might to avoid the postseason reputation that plagues …

With the offseason hitting Celtics fans much earlier than usual, there’s been a lot of discourse about the team outside of basketball. In particular, Jaylen Brown has been getting more attention than usual. His name has popped up in trade rumors, and fans and analysts alike have been holding a magnifying glass to every comment and action he’s taken since …

Jason Collings, the NBA’s first openly gay player, died May 12 after an eight-month battle with stage 4 glioblastoma. He was 47. Collins made history in April 2013 when he came out publicly in a Sports Illustrated essay, becoming the first openly gay active athlete in any of the four major North American professional sports leagues. The 13-year NBA veteran played …

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers fired president Daryl Morey on Tuesday and decided to keep Nick Nurse as their coach after the team was swept in the Eastern Conference semifinals. The 76ers were easily ousted by the New York Knicks to end Morey’s sixth season in charge, and the organization quickly decided that someone else would lead the basketball …

With three words, Jason Collins changed everything. Collins, who died Tuesday at 47 after battling Stage 4 glioblastoma, made history 13 years ago when he penned a piece in Sports Illustrated in which he came out as gay. Advertisement “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay,” Collins wrote in the May 6, 2013 issue of the magazine. …

How far are the Philadelphia 76ers away from competing for an Eastern Conference title? Far enough that they fired firmer president of basketball operations Daryl Morey on Tuesday, May 12, a move that came two days after the New York Knicks unceremoniously dispatched them in a sweep with an average margin of defeat of 22.3 points. Advertisement On the surface, …

You can add Rick Pitino to the rapidly expanding Knicks bandwagon. The St. John’s coach sees the possibility of the orange and blue going deep — deeper than the franchise has gone in more than 50 years. Advertisement Yes, that includes a championship. The Hall of Famer believes this surging group has that kind of potential. Head coach Rick Pitino …

On its face, the fit between Masai Ujiri and the Dallas Mavericks is perfect. “It’s almost like a match made in heaven,” Ujiri said after being introduced as the franchise’s president of basketball operations and alternate governor last week. “Every single one of us in this world is chosen for something special, and we just have to find it,” he …

Jason Collins was a trailblazer in the NBA as the league’s first openly gay player, and Jason Kidd felt lucky enough to call him a friend. Collins died Tuesday at 47 after a fight with Stage 4 glioblastoma. The late NBA center played eight years with the Nets and overlapped for seven years together as players before Kidd coached Collins …

There are only so many minutes to go around. OG Anunoby’s absence due to a right hamstring strain in Games 3 and 4 of the second round meant Miles McBride moved to the starting lineup, opening up his minutes for someone off the bench. After being buried in the rotation, Landry Shamet was the beneficiary. Advertisement He played 37 minutes …

SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama atoned for his first career ejection with another huge performance, finishing with 27 points, 17 rebounds and three blocks as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 126-97 on Tuesday night to take a 3-2 lead in their second-round series. At 22 years old, Wembanyama is the third-youngest player in NBA history to post …

It’s been a big day for the top prospects in the NBA draft, and there were some surprising results for the prospects the Utah Jazz will be looking at in the Draft. Here are some of the most important highlights. AJ Dybantsa A lot of eyes were on Dybantsa as he came into the draft combine to see what his …

Throughout the majority of the Lakers’ red hot March, Rui Hachimura was coming off the bench as a key reserve. Two months later, with the season on the line, he was having one of the best games of his career while trying to save the Lakers from elimination. No one did more for his stock this postseason than Rui. After …

The Minnesota Timberwolves entered Game 5 in San Antonio with a chance to retake control of their Western Conference Semifinals series. A win would have snatched back home-court advantage, put the Spurs on the brink of elimination, and set up a Friday night closeout opportunity at Target Center. Unfortunately, none of that happened. Advertisement Instead, Minnesota walked out of Frost …

Victor Wembanyama starred as the San Antonio Spurs moved to within one win of a Western Conference final against the Oklahoma City Thunder by taking a 3-2 lead against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Wembanyama scored 27 points – including 18 in the first quarter – to lead the Spurs to a 126-97 victory in game five of the best-of-seven series. Advertisement …

The basketball community has suffered another loss. On May 12, it was announced that former Brooklyn Nets center and NBA Cares Ambassador Jason Collins passed away at the age of 47. Last September, Jason revealed that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 glioblastoma, a tumor of the brain. Following the announcement of his passing, tributes poured in across the …

On a day of terrible news around the NBA (our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke AND trailblazing center Jason Collins), there is a small bit of good news for Bucks fans. You may recall that, towards the end of the regular season, Giannis Antetokounmpo infamously called on the league to investigate the Bucks …

The noise inside Frost Bank Center started long before tipoff. Fans arrived anxious, restless and desperate to see how the San Antonio Spurs would respond after letting Game 4 slip away in Minneapolis. There had been frustration over Victor Wembanyama’s ejection. Questions about composure. Questions about whether the young Spurs were ready for the weight of a playoff series that …

Three down and one more to go until the Western Conference Finals. Victor Wembanyama made amends for getting ejected two nights earlier with his rampage in the pivotal fifth game of the series against Minnesota.  The team’s 3-point shooting also helped them race out to an early lead and control of the boards assisted in keeping it. Advertisement The Timberwolves …

In theory, one of the biggest questions that could be surrounding the Lakers this offseason would be the impending free agency of their All-Star caliber guard. In many situations, a player of Austin Reaves’ caliber and age entering free agency would be a cause for concern as to whether he’d leave this summer. But nothing about this situation has created …