Most players that don’t make the playoffs take time to rest and begin their offseason vacations after the regular season ends. However, while Orlando Magic center Glen “Big Baby” Davis may be done playing for the season, he is still contributing to the NBA Playoffs… As a Bleacher Report commentator. [Read more…]
Hello and welcome to the Evening News. As the playoffs are now officially under way, we’ll keep you updated every evening. What’s happening today? Here’s the latest news from around the league: [Read more…]
Deron Williams struggled to get going last night BROOKLYN — The buzzer at the end of the third quarter sounded. Some fans at Barclays Center clapped, but mostly there was just silence. Kind of like Deron Williams’ play. The same Nets fans who couldn’t get enough of their team’s 106-89 blowout Game 1 victory were silenced at the offensive end thanks to intensity and attention to detail by the Chicago Bulls. In stealing homecourt advantage with a 90-82 victory, the Bulls
If you enjoy the weekly StatBox column that analytically breaks down some of the NBA’s most pressing and important topic, you’re in luck. Every Tuesday through Thursday during the postseason, the StatBox is expanding into playoff game analysis. You’ll not only find out why each team won and lost, but how different statistical trends can play out over the course of the series and the playoffs as a whole. First up: why the Bulls and Clippers are looking good in their quests
Sleep deprivation and sofasores come with the territory at this time of year. If you live on the East Coast, like me, you sacrifice both your days and your nights to the basketball gods and pray that it’ll all be worth it. Last night, it was. With Tony Allen defending him and trying to force him to go left, Chris Paul went to his right anyway and sank the game-winning shot with one-tenth of a second left to give the Los Angeles
What a weekend it was in New York! Two home playoff games on the same day, and we had one intrepid reporter, Moke Hamilton, covering them both. I invite you to read his first-hand column while listening to this interview with John Jastrewski of WFAN in New York. We stuck mostly with the Knicks and Nets, given the locale of the aforementioned radio station, but we hit on one other subject involving a former Knick — David Lee’s hip injury that will
Peeling oneself off the sofa was no easy task after a day and night spent sinking deeper and deeper into the upholstery. But the more you watched, the more you learned Saturday on Day One of the NBA Playoffs. Four lessons taken away: You do not want to have Draymond Green as your primary on-the-ball defender on the biggest play of the game – especially against a guy who has been in the league since Green was in diapers. You are in trouble
The often monotonous 82-game NBA regular season has come and gone. The worst teams have finished playing and the best 16 teams (yes, that is being generous to the Bucks) advanced to the postseason, guaranteeing high quality, spirited basketball. The seedings and schedules have been set, and each conference has matchups that are incredibly intriguing. For each team in the first round, there is one player who has to emerge and play a key role for that club to advance. Let’s have a