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Kyle Lowry Is Stuck In Playoff Hell Again
Kyle Lowry is living in some kind of nightmare. In Game 1 against the Heat last night, he hit a hero’s shot at the end of regulation to force overtime. It was the kind of bucket that seemed destined to lead the Raptors’ commemorative DVD of playoff highlights, but it was rendered meaningless when th...
Kyle Lowry Halfcourt Bomb Sends Game 1 To Overtime
Kyle Lowry had been struggling all game, until the bitter end of Toronto’s opening game against Miami, when he hit this absolute moonshot to tie the game at 90 and send it to overtime. The Heat had it just about sealed up (TNT read the credits and everything) until they got too lackadaisical, got ca...
Refs Admit Missed Foul In Thunder-Spurs (But What About The Other Six?)
If you haven’t yet watched the final play of last night’s 98-97 Thunder win, watch it and then collect the scattered pieces of your brainpan and then come back here to see the officials admit they might have missed a call somewhere in there....
All Hell Broke Loose On That Final Play Of Thunder-Spurs
I’m just gonna cut straight to the chase: The Oklahoma City Thunder escaped San Antonio with a 98-97 win tonight to even the series up at 1-1, thanks to, uh, whatever the hell it was that happened on this final sequence....
Draymond Green Is His Own Kind Of Marvel
The Warriors’ unassailable version of basketball starts with Steph Curry making origami out of the game’s standard conventions, but there’s also Draymond Green, doing stuff like this:...
The Streaky-Ass Miami Heat Just Barely Won A Series They Dominated
The Heat are likely going to be favored over whoever squeezes out the Indiana-Toronto series that wraps tonight the time you’re finishing your Game of Thrones-Silicon Valley doubleheader. Even if it’s Toronto (which hasn’t won a playoff series since 2001) and we get the No. 2 v. No. 3 seed matchup, ...
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The Rockets Are Dead, Fucking Finally
The Houston Rockets are so obviously talented. They have a genuine superstar scorer, and they’ve surrounded him with a point guard who just wants to pass the ball and injure dudes, a rangy, athletic crop of combo forwards, and one of the most dominant defensive centers of the past decade. Last year,...
DeAndre Jordan Jams It All Over An Unsuspecting Mason Plumlee
The ragged, depleted Clippers are locked in an entertaining Game 5 rubber match with the Blazers down in Los Angeles, and no matter how many fans did or did not show up, someone’s gonna leave with a crucial 3-2 series lead. In the third quarter, Mason Plumlee got cute trying to figure out help cover...
Somehow, The Hornets Are On The Verge Of The Second Round
Before the Hornets beat the Miami Heat on Saturday, they had lost 12 straight playoff games, dating back to 2001. In that timespan, the Heat won three titles and made it to the finals two other times. The two teams finished with the same regular-season record this season, but the Heat were considere...
That'll Do, Eastern Conference. That'll Do.
A depressing realization dawned on me as I struggled to stay awake through last night’s Game 5s in Atlanta and Toronto: These teams are shitty. Make a squad of the 10 best players from these four teams—the Hawks, Celtics, Pacers, and Raptors—and any of the West’s top three teams would put it down in...
Reporter Who Asked Draymond Green That Odd Question About The Houston Floods Gets Fired
After the Warriors beat the Rockets in Game 4 on Sunday, a reporter started to ask Draymond Green a strange question about the connection between the floods in Houston and his team’s performance when Green stopped him and went off on the guy for over a minute. Green said that the reporter had tried ...
Holy Smokes, That Raptors Comeback
The Toronto Raptors opened the fourth quarter against the Indiana Pacers on a 21-2 run, but their entire fourth quarter was really just one big run. They won it 25-9 to take a thrilling, critical Game 5 victory in a game where they trailed for the first 44 minutes, and now they’re one game away from...
Clippers Lose Chris Paul And Blake Griffin For The Rest Of The Playoffs
The Clippers are currently tied at two in their series against the Trail Blazers, but the rest of those games are going to be tough. Chris Paul and Blake Griffin won’t play in any of them....
The Playoffs Are Shaping Up Nicely For The Cavs, Huh?
The Cavaliers finished off their sweep of the Pistons Sunday night, but almost as important as beating the Pistons 4-0 was how they did it. LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Love are all healthy, and for the first time in two years actually look like a cohesive unit. Irving is relieving James of...
Kevin Durant And Russell Westbrook Torch Mark Cuban And Charlie Villanueva
There’s no trash talk quite like end-of-series trash talk. It’s easy to be magnanimous in victory, but it’s not nearly as much fun as pointing to the scoreboard as you lob a Molotov cocktail through the window on your way out of the building. After the Thunder finished off the Mavericks in five game...
Al-Farouq Aminu's Ugly Jump Shot: An Appreciation
Playoff basketball isn’t about perfection so much as compromise. If your opponent is going to attack your specific weaknesses, you counter and try to negate their strengths. Take Golden State’s comical adjustment last year where they stuck saw Andrew Bogut on Tony Allen and effectively dared him to ...
Report: Chris Paul Has A Broken Hand
Hours after Stephen Curry was officially diagnosed with a sprained MCL, the Clippers’ Chris Paul left the game and has reportedly been diagnosed with a broken hand. As you can see, he bent it while guarding the Blazers’ Gerald Henderson....
DeAndre Jordan Airballed Consecutive Free Throws
Adam Silver says watching DeAndre Jordan shoot free throws isn’t “entertaining.” He’s usually right, but when he’s airballing back-to-back charity stripe attempts, it carries its own special charm....
Russell Westbrook, Goddamn
The last thing Russell Westbrook needs is extra motivation, and yet—before his team sent the Dallas Mavericks out of the playoffs this evening with a 118-104 win—Mavericks owner Mark Cuban went and said that Russell Westbrook was not a superstar. So Westbrook immediately set to playing like a supers...