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With the finals seconds ticking down in a tie game, the Pistons cleared out for Derrick Rose. He took Jrue Holiday off the dribble, spun, elevated and scored his 17th point of the fourth quarter — the game-winner. Cool shot, but that’s besides the point of this blog post which …

The Phoenix Suns had a claim to being the most dysfunctional franchise in the NBA when they hired Monty Williams in May. Williams would be the Suns’ fourth head coach in three years, coming to a team that hadn’t won more than 25 games in five years and hadn’t made …

Late in the third quarter of a game against the Denver Nuggets on Friday, the thing that everyone who follows the Celtics has been waiting to see happen unfolded gloriously in the span of about 30 seconds. Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum went BOOM, delivering a devastating one-two punch that …

The Los Angeles Lakers, co-owners of the NBA’s best record after six years of dysfunction, entered the 2019-20 season with two critical weaknesses. One was the lack of floor spacing that resulted from the coaching staff’s decision to start Anthony Davis at power forward alongside more traditional centers in a …

What a day for the Houston Rockets. First, the NBA denied the Rockets’ protest of last week’s infuriating loss to the Spurs in which referees mistakenly disallowed a perfectly legal James Harden dunk with 7:50 left in the game, didn’t give Mike D’Antoni the coach’s challenge he was making, and …

The NBA’s Western Conference isn’t as strong as it once was. Last year saw LeBron James and the Lakers miss the postseason, and a once-surging Sacramento Kings team fall flat. The No. 8 seed won 48 games! Now, two sub-.500 could cross the finish line and play into May. The …

It was three years ago this week when the Brooklyn Nets signed Spencer Dinwiddie out of the G League. At that point, Dinwiddie’s career was on life support: he had slipped to the second round of the draft after tearing his ACL in his final year at Colorado, he was …

Anthony Davis had a monster performance in the Lakers’ win over the Wolves on Sunday: 50 points, seven rebounds, six assists, four steals, and one turnover. Perhaps the most impressive thing about Davis’s night: he scored 50 without hitting a single three. That’s so rare in this era, where 50-point …

At his peak, Kevin Love was an incredible centerpiece and an incredible third star. With the Minnesota Timberwolves, averaging Moses Malone numbers, Love was an incredible inside-out scorer and rebounder. After being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers and after some growing pains, Love slotted in as a great complement to …

The Minnesota Timberwolves looked like they had the Oklahoma City Thunder beat on Friday night. With 1.1 seconds remaining in the game, Wolves star Karl-Anthony Towns stepped to the foul line for two shots with his team up two points. The Thunder, with no timeouts left, needed a miracle. They …