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The teams and matchups we most wanna see for the NBA’s Play-in Tournament

Contrary to what LeBron James says, the NBA Play-In Tournament was a great idea. Because of the strange circumstances the NBA found itself in after COVID-19 wrecked 2020, the league had an opportunity to try out some goofy new ideas to make up for the fact that the fans were only getting a 72-game season. […]

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The Atlanta Hawks are 17-6 since changing coaches and have a guy shooting 50/50/100

Tony Snell is still being memed for famously putting up zero points, rebounds, assists, steals or blocks in 28 minutes of play while with the Milwaukee Bucks four years ago. The accomplishment dubiously fell 21 seconds short of the NBA’s record for most minutes in a game without scoring, which Joel Anthony set years… Read […]

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Nikola Jokić is peeking back at other MVP candidates and smiling like Usain Bolt in Rio

With less than a month to go in the regular season, the NBA’s MVP race is taking up a lot of oxygen. There’s nothing unusual about that. What is strange is the divergence between the reality of the competition for MVP and the conversation around it. Read more…

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Pipe down Curry minions! He’s NOT the MVP right now

It’s Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing all those Steph Curry minions that think he should be the MVP.Sure, Curry is on a shooting hot streak. But his team isn’t over .500 and still isn’t guaranteed to make the postseason.Pump the brakes. There are better players on better teams more worthy of the award […]

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Red-hot Steph Curry scores 30 again but Warriors lose

Stephen Curry has been on one lately, and that continued on Saturday night in Boston, where he scored 47 points, made 11 three-pointers, grabbed seven rebounds… and Golden State still fell back to .500 with a 119-114 loss to the Celtics, who got 44 points from Jayson Tatum. Read more…