nba-playoffs-2014 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

The 2014 Heat Were Worse In The Finals Than LeBron's 2007 Cavs TeamAt some point around the time Dwyane Wade was impaled, for the second time, on a doddering walkabout turnover in the paint, the wider basketball-viewing world realized that Dwyane Wade has been dead all this time, and was only now being told. But Wade was far from the only Heat carcass to wash up th...

The Spurs Were The Most Dominant NBA Finals Team EverWith a 104-87 blowout in Game 5 last night, the Spurs became the most dominant NBA finals winners ever. ...

Why Do NBA Playoff Games Take So Long?While it's common knowledge (and a common complaint) that the NBA playoffs as a whole take a long time to complete, it's often the case that the games themselves take a long time as well. Part of this is due to overtimes being (slightly) more frequent in the playoffs than in the regular season—6.0 p...

Here's A New Attempt At Gauging The Defensive Impact Of NBA Players

The defensive impact of individual NBA players is hard to measure, as it's so intertwined with their teammates' performance. Austin Clemens, undeterred, has taken an ambitious shot with his new Adjusted Impact by Court Location model, which attempts to parse out individual impacts on opponent shot s...

Legendary Heckler Robin Ficker Returned To The NBA Last Night

Robert Griffin III, DeSean Jackson, and, uh, Wolf Blitzer attended last night's Pacers-Wizards game at Verizon Center. This, the TNT broadcast made sure to remind us, indicated the Big Deal-ness of the game. The stars came out to cheer on the Wizards!...

How Rick Carlisle Turned The Misfit, Mismatched Mavs Into Contenders

The Mavericks got clobbered in yesterday's Game 7 against San Antonio, but just being there was a minor miracle in itself. Here's Brett Koremenos's breakdown on how this mismatched Mavs roster took the invincible Spurs to 7. ...

How Rick Carlisle Turns The Misfit, Mismatched Mavs Into Contenders

Every team loves rooting around for under-appreciated, undervalued, post-Moneyball players; the Mavericks have simply taken it to an extreme. Under Rick Carlisle, Dallas has thrown out conventional fit in order to focus strictly on value, the way you might in baseball, but which has failed again and...

Meet Kyle Lowry. He's Very Good (And Probably Not A Giant Asshole).

NBA fans have known for a while that Kyle Lowry is pretty damn good. But that respect was an abstract one: Lowry's value was an acknowledged fact, if not one with specific dimensions. He's good, but why? He plays in a far away land, is never on national TV and has made more headlines for the trade ...