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SH Blog: Warriors greatly interested in Kerr and Stan Van Gundy, Lin wants to have Ginobili’s mentality

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So what now with Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson? After nearly taking the San Antonio Spurs to the brink in the second round of the playoffs last season, the Warriors came into this season with the highest of expectations after signing Andre Iguodala in the offseason. Unfortunately, with expectations come disappointments. The Warriors weren’t who they thought they’d be. They finished the regular season with a relatively disappointing sixth seed in the West and ultimately failed to come out of

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5 Fast Facts from Last Night’s Games — CP3 Lights Up the Thunder, Ariza Goes Off in Indiana

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Just one day into the Conference Semifinals, the legendary competitiveness of the first round seems so distant. The second round of the 2014 NBA Playoffs opened up in surprising, yet somehow reminiscent fashion. Road teams continued to get the best of their home counterparts, but the outcomes were far more lopsided than anyone expected to see. Here’s everything that you need to know about the opening day of the Conference Semifinals. [Read more…]

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Players around the league react to Roy Hibbert’s disappearing act in Game 1 against the Washington Wizards

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After playing just well enough to get past the eighth-seeded Atlanta Hawks in the first round, the Indiana Pacers continued to show on Monday that their struggles are far from over. Facing a young and energized Washington Wizards team in the conference semi-finals, the Pacers floundered on both ends of the court and lost 102-96, losing homecourt advantage once again in the process. The Wizards shot a whopping 10-of-16 from the 3-point line, and the Pacers collectively shot 40.7 percent from

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Tweet of the Day: NBA Players Congratulate Michael Carter-Williams

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Who ever said the “experts” knew what they were talking about? After getting drafted behind the likes of Victor Oladipo, Otto Porter, Cody Zeller, Ben McLemore, Trey Burke and C.J. McCollum, Philadelphia 76ers rookie guard Michael Carter-Williams was an afterthought when projecting the top rookies in the 2013 NBA draft class. However, after opening the 2013-14 NBA season with a cool 22 points, 12 assists and seven rebounds in a four-point victory over the two-time defending NBA champion Miami Heat, he put

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Pacers Playoff Tickets For Second Round Are Cheapest In NBA, Below First Round Average

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The Eastern Conference No. 1 seed Indiana Pacers advanced to the second round of the NBA Playoffs, but had to work a little harder than most thought. The Pacers were taken to a Game 7 by the No. 8 seed Atlanta Hawks and over the course of the series only outscored the Hawks by an average 93.4 – 92.4. Throughout the first round, the Pacers had some of the cheapest tickets on the secondary market. According to TiqIQ, that trend

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VIDEO: Second-Round NBA Playoff Predictions

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You want gambling advice? Check out my picks for the four second-round NBA playoff series, and then go out and bet the opposite. OK, maybe that is overstating it. But I did not have a great first round from a prognosticator standpoint, failing to hit on my upset picks of the Grizzlies over the Thunder and the Warriors over the Clippers. Close, but not quite. The best pickers we had in the first round were Peter May and Shlomo Sprung, although Danny Schayes

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Michael Carter-Williams wins Rookie of the Year; Plumlee gets more First Place votes than Burke

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The nice thing about the voting for NBA awards this season is that we don’t always have to concentrate on the winner, we can concentrate on the voters at times, too. Like when the news of who won is not all that unexpected. The most important thing to know is that Michael Carter-Williams of the Philadelphia 76ers won the award with 104 of 124 first-place votes, including mine. Victor Oladipo of the Orlando Magic was second, picking up 16 first-place votes; and Trey

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DraftStreet Fantasy Spin, May 5, 2014: Welcome Back, LeBron

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Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet’s two-day NBA playoff fantasy leagues So my second week as a fantasy writer ended with a profit of more than $300. We build on that this week and finish with a four-figure withdrawal, correct? Could have gotten there Sunday if not for my selection of Alan Anderson on one team and Tiago Splitter on another. Finished 51st and 78th out of 330 with lineups that included those “value picks”

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