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NBA offseason survey: Execs, scouts on the biggest deals, best players and 2022 title favorites
The past two seasons have seen the NBA — like the rest of the world — deal with unprecedented circumstances. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused as much upheaval across the NBA as any sports league in North America and beyond, with the 2019-20 season ending in a bubble inside the Walt Disney World Resort in […]
Continue readingDetroit Pistons take Cade Cunningham with No. 1 overall pick in NBA draft; Jalen Suggs ends up with Orlando Magic
They’re hoping Cade Cunningham can be the player to finally get them back to prominence after making the Oklahoma State star the top overall pick in the 2021 NBA draft on Thursday night at Barclays Center in New York. “It’s still crazy to be in the moment,” Cunningham, wearing an all-black suit, shirt and tie, […]
Continue readingNBA Power Rankings, way-too-early edition: Where the Milwaukee Bucks and every team stand for 2021-22
Now what? We’re not wasting any time spinning forward to next season, where a host of current contenders and potential superteams will aim to unseat Giannis Antetokounmpo & Co. in 2022. What will the Los Angeles Lakers look like in Year 3 of the LeBron James-Anthony Davis partnership? What kind of juggernaut will the Brooklyn […]
Continue readingNBA playoffs 2021: Trae Young, Ja Morant weigh in on Nikola Jokic ejection
Jokic took a wild swing at the Suns’ Cameron Payne, hitting Payne across the face as he made a hard swipe to knock the ball loose. The foul came after Jokic didn’t get a call on a one-handed runner, as he briefly glanced over at a referee and gestured. Suns star Devin Booker immediately confronted […]
Continue readingJordan Clarkson, after aiding vandalized food truck: ‘Just no room’ for racist attacks
SALT LAKE CITY — Jordan Clarkson saw the hateful racial slur spray-painted all over a well-known Filipino food truck in Utah on social media and was overcome with raw emotion. “F— C—-s” and an offensive image of a face with slanted eyes was sprayed on the side of the World Famous Yum Yum Food Truck […]
Continue readingNBA playoffs 2021: Which star was the MVP of the first round?
The opening round of the NBA playoffs is complete. And what a finale it was: a LA Clippers’ clutch Game 7 performance against Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks sent Kawhi Leonard, Paul George & Co. to a Western Conference semifinals meeting with the Utah Jazz. Before the Clippers and Mavs duked it out, a […]
Continue readingUtah Jazz use lessons from last postseason’s blown 3-1 lead to close out Memphis Grizzlies
The Jazz not only closed out a tough-minded young Grizzlies team led by Ja Morant, but they did so after blowing a 3-1 lead to the Denver Nuggets in the first round of last season’s bubble playoffs. “We obviously knew and felt the underlying pressure of being up 3-1 again,” Jazz guard Mike Conley said. […]
Continue readingJa Morant’s father pulling for Utah Jazz after team’s response to fan incidents
At least one fan joined the Utah Jazz bandwagon after their five-game series win in the first round: Tee Morant, the father of Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant. Moments after top-seeded Utah ended the series with a 126-110 win Wednesday night, Tee Morant told Donovan Mitchell that he’d be rooting for the Jazz the rest […]
Continue readingFan runs onto court during Washington Wizards’ Game 4 win over Philadelphia 76ers in latest act of misbehavior
The fan was at the Wizards’ basket as they came down on offense before referees noticed the man and stopped the game with three minutes to play in the third quarter. The fan was quickly tackled by a security guard and pulled off the floor before being handcuffed by police. The Wizards won Game 4 […]
Continue readingMike Conley leads Utah Jazz to victory in ‘surreal’ return to Memphis
After spending 12 seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies, the veteran Utah Jazz guard is still adjusting to the fact that his new team is facing his old team in an emotional first-round playoff series. But after scoring 27 points, dishing out eight assists and grabbing six rebounds in Utah’s 121-111 Game 3 road win over […]
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