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The Greatest Game 1 NBA Finals performances of the 21st century
And now for our second NBA Finals in about nine months....

The Phoenix Suns’ Finals trip reeks to high heavens
The Phoenix Suns’ run to the NBA Finals is fugazi....

Go against logic and believe in THESE Los Angeles Clippers
It’s easy to believe the Los Angeles Clippers can’t do the impossible....

Who have been the luckiest and unluckiest teams in the NBA draft lottery?
Whenever a team does poorly, many fans of said team will point to luck as a contributing factor....

Is playing in the Olympics wise for NBA stars in 2021?
This season’s been historically injury-plagued, and it might only get worse as the NBA returns to normal this fall....

Deadspin looks at all the injuries that have affected the NBA playoffs
When Kyrie Irving went down with an ankle injury halfway through the second quarter of Sunday’s Bucks and Nets Game 4 matchup, basketball fans simultaneously let out a loud groan. The injury bug had hit another star in a season that may be remembered for who was left standing, instead of who was the...

These NBA Playoffs have been painful to play and watch
We are watching the worst NBA playoffs ever....

Stop the Bubble slander
The Denver Nuggets are down 3-0, meaning no team who reached the NBA’s Final Four in The Bubble has won a game past Round 1, and one of them didn’t even do that. But these four teams — the Nuggets, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, and Boston Celtics — shouldn’t be diminished for accomplishing what th...

LeBron reminds us of other greats who wore multiple numbers on the same team
After a tumultuous 2018-19 season with the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James tweeted this out, passive-aggressively declaring his intentions to change his number to six....

What happened to all the NBA’s best playoff heel teams?
The NBA playoffs have featured excellent basketball as players who have been on the rise as stars in the league have battled to grab the spotlight....

Step aside Lakers, L.A. is Clippers Country now
The worm has turned in L.A....

Devin Booker goes off, joins rarified NBA royalty in slaying L.A.
The NBA has a superstar that not enough people talk about as being in the top tier of league talents, but last night he showcased that he belongs. On the road, to close out the defending champions, Devin Booker went ballistic — he dropped 47 points (a playoff career-high), 11 rebounds, eight three-p...

Lakers roll dice with A.D.’s career for LeBron’s legacy
Shame on the Los Angeles Lakers....

LeBron’s gone, and the NBA did him no favors with short offseason
I grew up in Chicago, which means I grew up in a basketball atmosphere that was convinced the league was always rigging things for the Knicks. Even though the Bulls would go on to win six titles — beating the Knicks along the way for most of them — Bulls fans were always insistent that they had to o...

Will we actually see an NBA Finals without LeBron?
We might be in store for something very rare in the NBA — a Finals that doesn’t include LeBron James. With the Lakers down 3-2 to the Phoenix Suns, the possibility is becoming more and more likely that the defending champs won’t make it out of the first round. Not seeing Lebron making a deep playoff...

HEAR ME OUT: The Lakers need to sit Anthony Davis tonight
Anthony Davis should NOT play in the Los Angeles Lakers’ biggest game of the season....

L.A.’s Game 5 performance puts Laker nation in full meltdown mode
Laker Nation is in turmoil — and it’s absolutely hilarious. ...

Phoenix isn’t done yet, imbeciles
Why is everyone so quick to toss the Phoenix Suns out with the trash?...

It’s been a tale of two brows lately, and that’s not good enough for Showtime
If the Los Angeles Lakers are going to have any chance at repeating as NBA Champions, they can’t have Anthony Davis finishing games with Andrea Bargnani stat lines....

‘Smacked in the mouth,’ LeBron and AD now need to find second gear — if bodies let them
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers looked sluggish and shell-shocked on Sunday. In their first-round matchup against the Phoenix Suns, after squeaking past the Golden State Warriors in the Play-In Tournament, the defending champs looked anything but title-contending....