nba playoffs 2017

A fun artifact of the past sports year—in which the Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 lead with home-court advantage…

After charring the bones of the Cavaliers during the first three games of the NBA Finals and every other playoff…

Barring a monumental collapse so great that it blots out all rational sports discourse for a decade, the Golden…

With under a minute to play in last night’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals and the Cleveland Cavaliers leading 113-111,…

The Golden State Warriors just spent the first two games of the NBA Finals dominating the Cleveland Cavaliers in…

The old-timey wisdom goes: Basketball is a matchup sport. I think I’ve heard Kenny Smith or various other Kenny…

Close one eye and squint with the other, and last night’s Game 1 box score starts to look like a positive one for…

For the better part of a quarter, the Cavaliers and Warriors gave us the gloriously competitive game these playoffs…

It’s that time of year again: 364 days and 23 hours since the end of the conference finals, the NBA Finals are here!…

I think we can all agree that last year’s NBA Finals was one of the best sports things to ever happen, and that it…

Here is a lovely bucket from Deron Williams, in last night’s Eastern Conference clincher between the Cleveland…

While watching the Cavaliers beat the Celtics in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals last night, I sent a rude…

I guess if you want to pin the outcome of last night’s Game 7 on somebody—somebody other than repulsive unconscious…

Here is some bullshit:

Down two, five seconds left, season in the balance, the charred end of a night when his team hit 20 percent of its…

What’s that, you say? After two consecutive dominant performances at home, the Wizards showed up flat and…

In his “Coach’s Corner” bit after the first quarter of last night’s Game 4 between the Celtics and the Wizards,…

First of all, as a basketball euphemism, physical play is bullshit. Everything that happens on a basketball court is …

The Wizards dominated in the first quarter of tonight’s Game 3, going on a 20-0 run and heading to the second with a…

The Boston Celtics won a game in which they trailed for pretty much all but a few moments of regulation, to take a…