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Playoff basketball is a crucible that exposes the unprepared and elevates the resilient. For a young guard who spent most of the season fighting his own body, the pressure of a postseason road game could have been suffocating. Instead, it was exactly the stage Scoot Henderson needed to remind the basketball world why he was…
The narrative heading into Tuesday night at TD Garden felt like a foregone conclusion. After the Boston Celtics absolutely dismantled the Philadelphia 76ers by 32 points in Game 1, the basketball world expected a clean sweep. The Sixers were staggering, desperate, and still missing the gravitational pull of their superstar big man, Joel Embiid, who…
The hype was palpable. Kevin Durant was finally back in the lineup, lacing up his sneakers after a knee injury sidelined him for Game 1. For about 12 minutes on Tuesday night, the Houston Rockets looked like they were going to punch back. Durant dropped 11 points in the first quarter, moving with that silky,…
After the Boston Celtics ran the Philadelphia 76ers out of the gym in Game 1 by 32 points, most of us were already writing the obituary for Philly’s season. No Joel Embiid? Against a fully loaded Boston squad at TD Garden? It felt like a wrap. But sports have a funny way of making the…
It was the kind of moment that makes an entire arena forget how to breathe. Just days after putting the entire basketball world on notice with a legendary playoff debut, Victor Wembanyama gave the San Antonio crowd a very different reason to stand on their feet. During the second quarter of Game 2 against the…
Note: Kevin Durant IS playing tonight against the Lakers The energy inside Crypto.com Arena was palpable on Saturday night, but for the Houston Rockets, the air was sucked out of the building before the opening tip even happened. When word came down that Kevin Durant would sit out Game 1 against the Los Angeles Lakers…
Jaden McDaniels and the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets are clashing in the playoffs for the third time in four years, and if Monday night was any indication, the familiarity has officially bred pure, unadulterated contempt. After dropping Game 1, Minnesota found itself staring down the barrel of a 19-point deficit in Game 2. The…
Trying to fix the current iteration of the Chicago Bulls is a lot like trying to patch a sinking ship with a stick of chewing gum. It requires infinite patience, a high tolerance for stress, and a willingness to get wet. On Tuesday, Billy Donovan officially decided he had spent enough time in the water….
Madison Square Garden was absolutely rocking on Monday night, right up until the exact moment it wasn’t. If you’re a basketball fan, you know exactly the kind of feeling I’m talking about. The sudden, suffocating collective gasp of 19,000 die-hard New Yorkers watching their beloved Knicks snatch defeat directly from the jaws of victory. It…
Nobody really expected the Toronto Raptors to roll into Cleveland and steal the momentum, but we at least expected a knife fight. Instead, what we got in Game 2 was a slow, methodical dissection. The Cleveland Cavaliers grabbed a suffocating 2-0 series lead on Monday night, dispatching the Raptors 115-105. And while a 10-point margin…