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StatBox Playoff Breakdown: Milwaukee’s future, Boston’s age and Golden State’s perfect game

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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. Today: Milwaukee’s future, Boston’s age and Golden State’s shooting touch. Is This Milwaukee’s Best? The uncertainty of

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StatBox Playoff Breakdown: Bulls’ defense and Grizzlies’ defensive shortcomings

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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

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Sheridan: 8 games, 7 stinkers. What does it mean?

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What, you wanted eight games that were all as compelling as Warriors-Nuggets? OK, I was disappointed, too, especially on Sunday, with the lack of competitive Game 1s across the NBA. And the real bummer was that in the one game that was a nail-biter, the Warriors lost David Lee for the remainder of the postseason. The award for Most Snake-Bit NBA Player is hereby retired in his honor. So what will this week bring? First of all, Carl Landry (pictured to your left)

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David Lee Will Miss Remainder of Playoffs

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Horrible news for the Golden State Warriors. The team announced today David Lee will miss the remainder of the 2013 NBA Playoffs due to a complete tear of his right hip flexor following an MRI that was conducted this morning. As we said in today’s morning roundup, sometimes something happens in a Game 1 that decides, for all intents and purposes, one particular series. Happens almost every year. Maybe this is that event. Lee, 29, registered 10 points and 14 rebounds in 29 minutes

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Sheridan: What We Learned on Day One of Playoffs

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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

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Bauman: Kidd’s Defense Sets Tone As Knicks Win Game 1

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NEW YORK — All season long, there were questions about Jason Kidd. Was he playing too many minutes? Would he be worn out by the time the playoffs rolled around? In Game 1 of Boston-New York on Saturday, with defense dictating the fourth quarter, Kidd answered the bell tangibly, something he has specialized in throughout the latter portion of his illustrious 19-year NBA career. [Read more…]

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Sheridan: The NBA Champion Will Be …

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… disclosed in this video. At least it’s my pick to win the championship — a team that lulled everyone into a false sense of serenity over the final 20 games of the regular season. And, no, it is not the Miami Heat. [Read more…]

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