Giannis Antetokounmpo landed hard on his back and left early in the Bucks’ Game 1 loss to the Heat on Sunday.
Green was ejected from Game 2 of the Warriors-Kings playoff match after he stepped on Kings forward, Domantas Sabonis.
The odds of a Warriors win in six games are far shorter than the odds of a Kings win in six games too.
Draymond Green got into it with a big group of Kings fans behind their bench before he was ejected from Game 2 in Sacramento, too.
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The Suns are one of the betting favorites to win the NBA title but find themselves potentially staring at an 0-2 deficit in their first-round series.
Embiid had jokes after his 76ers took a 2-0 series lead over the Nets.
Jackson has developed into the NBA's best shot blocker.
The Bay Area rap legend has loyally attended Warriors games for years. On Monday, the team made sure his presence was still felt.
Monica McNutt from ESPN & MSG Network joins Vincent Goodwill on the Good Word with Goodwill podcast after each NBA Playoff series has played 1 game to see if their thoughts on any of the series have changed already.
The incident in a courtside club lounge was caught on video.
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Westbrook’s shots missed short, wide and long — but he often recovered shots short, wide and long, in addition to playing the best defensive game perhaps in his career.
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Russell Westbrook blocked Devin Booker at the rim in the final seconds of their Game 1 win in Phoenix.
Antetokounmpo injured his back on a hard fall in the first quarter and the No. 1 seed Bucks fell into an 0-1 series hole.
Morant's status is in doubt as Memphis looks to avoid falling into an 0-2 series hole at home.
The Lakers rode a dominant second half to steal Game 1 on the road.
Davis left for the locker room late in the second quarter after taking contact on an offensive rebound.
The Western Conference’s fourth-seeded Phoenix Suns and fifth-seeded Los Angeles Clippers meet in the first round of the 2023 NBA playoffs. The Suns won their last playoff meeting in the 2021 conference finals.
George missed the last nine games of the season with a knee sprain and isn't yet ready to return to the lineup.
"Security saw a disagreement between a Black man and a white woman and immediately assumed that I was at fault."
The Eastern Conference’s top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks will face the Miami Heat, who won their play-in matchup Friday to seize the East’s eighth and final playoff spot, in the first round of the 2023 NBA playoffs. The last time these two teams squared off in the postseason, Milwaukee swept Miami in 2021’s first round.
The Warriors All-Star is playing his first games in over two months.
The Kings have their first playoff win in 17 years.
It took all of 11 seconds for the Celtics to establish dominance over the Hawks in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.
Philadelphia countered Brooklyn’s double-teams with pin-point, spot-on passing in a 121-101 Game 1 victory to open the playoffs.
Randle hasn't played since March 29.
The Western Conference’s third-seeded Sacramento Kings and sixth-seeded Golden State Warriors meet in the first round of the 2023 NBA playoffs. The two franchises have never met before in the postseason.
The two franchises have never squared off in the postseason; they have both employed multiple Gasols, though. So that’s something.
The Eastern Conference’s fourth-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers and fifth-seeded New York Knicks meet in the first round of the 2023 NBA playoffs. The two franchises haven’t faced off in the postseason since 1996 — a best-of-five series in which, as luck would have it, the fifth-seeded Knicks swept the favored Cavs, 3-0.
The Eastern Conference’s third-seeded Philadelphia 76ers and sixth-seeded Brooklyn Nets meet in the first round of the 2023 NBA playoffs. The Sixers won the teams' last playoff meeting in the 2019 opening round.
The Eastern Conference’s second-seeded Boston Celtics and seventh-seeded Atlanta Hawks meet in the first round of the 2022 NBA playoffs. Boston won the teams' last first-round playoff meeting in 2016.
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The Western Conference’s first-seeded Denver Nuggets and eighth-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves meet in the first round of the 2023 NBA playoffs. The two teams last met in the playoffs in the 2004 first round.
The Heat guard opened the game with four 3-pointers in five minutes.
This probably wasn't what Rick Fox was expecting when he woke up Thursday.
The MVP finalists are the same trio as last year. Will there be a different result?
Some people were extremely mad about Diar DeRozan's attempts to help her father.
Zion Williamson will head into the offseason with more questions about his health.
The NBA thinks it can stop tanking by fining the team an amount of money the owner can find in their couch cushions.
Everyone focuses on the Donovan Mitchell trade, but it’s another monster deal that helped speed up Cleveland’s rebuild. And now the Knicks await.
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Both the Heat and Timberwolves are 5.5-point favorites at home.
The Warriors All-Star hasn't played since Feb. 13 due to an undisclosed family matter.
The new CBA includes a provision meant to curb load management, requiring a 65-game minimum to qualify for the league's awards and removes positional requirements for All-NBA players.
“I feel like a lot of people deal with it, but they’re not willing to talk about it,” the two-time MVP said. “They’re not willing to improve, because this stigma is behind it."
Through growing pains and a depleted roster early, the presumptive Rookie of the Year learned what it takes to excel — and how he can reach another level.
14 of the 16 playoff teams are finalized as the postseason begins on Saturday.