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Don’t count Ice Trae out yet

The East’s top-seeded Heat aren’t sitting so comfortably after last night. Trae Young heaved up a game-winner to put the Hawks right back into the series. Read more…

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J. J. Redick found out that yelling about sports is Mad Dog Russo’s 3-point line

I didn’t grow in New York, so I didn’t get to listen to Mike and the Crazy Dog . My most vivid memories of Chris “Mad Dog” Russo are working lunch shifts at a restaurant and watching his lips flap open and closed at 3X speed on a muted bar television playing MLB Network’s High […]

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Why do the basketball gods hate Chris Paul?

On Tuesday night, the New Orleans Pelicans were getting baptized by Devin Booker. The Suns’ shooting guard was dapping up babies en route to a 31-point first half. While the Suns offense was boiling hot in the first half, their defense couldn’t slow down the Pelicans’ offense, especially in transition. Read more…

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Anthony Edwards has arrived as the man in Minnesota

Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards made a lasting impression Saturday in his playoff debut against Memphis. Edwards kicked down the door and dominated the particular Grizzlies, setting a new Twolves record in scoring for a player in his first playoff game. Read more…

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Ranking the NBA’s first round matchups by how likely we are to see an upset

The NBA’s playoffs are easily the most predictable of the major American sports leagues. Without the variability of baseball or the single playoff game format like football, it’s pretty rare that there are any true upsets in the first round of the NBA playoffs. In most years you look at the bracket and see only […]

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Unlikely heroes lead way to start NBA playoffs

The stars were out for the first day of the NBA playoffs, with Donovan Mitchelll scoring 32 points to lead the Jazz to a 99-93 win in Dallas, Karl-Anthony Towns putting up 29 points and 13 boards to lead the Timberwolves to a Game 1 upset in Memphis, 130-117, and then Tyrese Maxey scored 38 […]