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NBA Christmas Day schedule — How to watch, coverage of all five games
The Raptors are the defending NBA champions, but they lost star forward Kawhi Leonard in free agency during the summer. The Celtics were eliminated in the Eastern Conference semifinals last season. Boston’s leading scorer is guard Kemba Walker, who is averaging 22.6 points per game. It is Walker’s first season with the Celtics, after spending […]
Continue readingKyrie Irving’s injury, Spencer Dinwiddie’s dominance and the biggest Brooklyn Nets questions
What is the update on Kyrie Irving? It was Sunday, one hour and 45 minutes before opening tip between the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers, and by this point in the season, the Nets head coach was on auto-pilot when it came to responses about his All-Star point guard. “No update, no timetable,” Atkinson said. […]
Continue readingNBA Power Rankings Week 9: The Bucks can’t stop winning; James Harden can’t stop scoring
In a potential NBA Finals preview and, much more importantly, an early head-to-head battle for Power Rankings supremacy, the Bucks are hosting the Lakers in a national TV showdown. As for our latest list: After our dynamic duo checks in, plenty of movement follows in this week’s edition. Throughout the regular season, our panel (ESPN’s […]
Continue readingFantasy NBA Daily Notes: Luka’s latest opus
No other player in the NBA has done that even once this season. In fact, the only other 40-point triple-double in NBA history by a player under age 21 was by LeBron James, who did it once. It was Doncic’s fourth career 40-point game, tying Kevin Durant for the second-most in NBA history by a […]
Continue readingHow Kevin Garnett teamed up with Adam Sandler in ‘Uncut Gems’
Josh and Benny Safdie, the writer-director brothers, are diehard fans of the New York Knicks — which naturally means they hate the Celtics. “I hated Boston,” Josh Safdie told ESPN this week. “I hated KG.” Sandler was born in Brooklyn, but his family moved to Manchester, New Hampshire — prime Celtics country — when he […]
Continue readingWhy five college basketball teams were overhyped, why five were undervalued
At this point in the season, it’s common to hear critics accuse college basketball insiders of overhyping teams that have failed to justify the preseason buzz about their respective programs, while also questioning the lack of attention for teams that have already surprised us. But we think we can explain some of the hits and […]
Continue reading‘We knew we could do it:’ Reliving the Raptors’ title run
Matt Devlin had called all those playoff moments, but never one like the end of Game 7 against the Philadelphia 76ers. “That happened right here,” the Raptors play-by-play man says, standing near the right corner where Kawhi Leonard put the Raptors into the Eastern Conference finals. “4.2 seconds on the clock, Kawhi turns the corner, […]
Continue readingFantasy NBA Daily Notes: Historic night for Miami’s Robinson and Nunn
In the overtime win over Atlanta, Robinson joined Kendrick Nunn, who delivered 36 points — one shy of the franchise rookie record set by Sherman “The General” Douglas back in 1990 — as the first pair of undrafted teammates to ever score at least 30 points in the same game in league history. Rostered in […]
Continue readingLost stars, lack of leadership and fleeting hope for the Knicks
BY THE TIME David Fizdale met with his bosses after a 37-point loss to the Denver Nuggets on Thursday, his trademark wood-grain glasses did little to hide the toll coaching the New York Knicks for the past 19 months had taken on him. His eyes looked weary. His beard had grown bushy and scraggly. The […]
Continue readingNBA free agents: Team-by-team lists for 2020 and 2021
Nearly half the league hit free agency in 2019. Plenty of stars changed teams, including Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Kawhi Leonard, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker. The 2020 class won’t have the same star power or the same amount of cap space available, but 2021 will be absolutely loaded. Here’s our team-by-team look at all […]
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