The Warriors had a lot of questions surrounding them heading into this game. How would they adjust to playing without David Lee? Who would start in his place? Would Stephen Curry find his offense? Would anyone else step up? In order, they answered [...]

The Milwaukee Bucks are hustling this series. Give them credit, they are giving a real playoff effort. Their problem is the Miami Heat are far more talented and when they give their best effort Miami runs away and hides. The Bucks effort meant [...]

NEW YORK —  Getting Kevin Garnett the ball often was the game plan. And that plan, much like most of the C’s plans in Game 2, didn’t work out how they expected as the Celtics continue to dig themselves a playoff hole that’s [...]

This was the right call — and it’s a call that might not have been made a decade ago. Marc Gasol was officially named the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year on Wednesday. He was the frontrunner for the award, with LeBron James coming in [...]

Strike when the iron is hot. It’s not just advice for blacksmiths; it applies to NBA free agency as well. The iron is never going to be hotter for J.R. Smith, the freshly minted NBA Sixth Man of the Year. He averaged 18.9 points per game and [...]

You can go home again. If your home is Cleveland. Mike Brown and his family had already decided to move out of Los Angeles and go back to Cleveland before the opportunity to coach the Cavaliers fell in his lap, but now he has a job to go back [...]

NEW YORK —  Getting Kevin Garnett the ball often was the game plan. And that plan, much like most of the C’s plans in Game 2, didn’t work out how they expected as the Celtics continue to dig themselves a playoff hole that’s [...]

Meet the second game, same as the first game… If you thought the Boston Celtics couldn’t have a worse second half than their disasterous 25-point effort last Saturday in Game 1 against the Knicks, then you don’t know how anemic the Celtics [...]

Is this the summer Brian Shaw finally lands a head coaching job? He’s been at the top of the assistant coaching ranks for a couple of years now, interviewed for a number of jobs and just not gotten a shot in the big chair. Now it looks like [...]

You can go home again. If your home is Cleveland. Mike Brown and his family had already decided to move out of Los Angeles and go back to Cleveland before the opportunity to coach the Cavaliers fell in his lap, but now he has a job to go back [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant’s been his team’s leader since his rookie season out of Texas. As Red Nation watches James Harden adjust in his first year in a leading role for Houston, Durant talked about his adjustment to that [...]

The Charlotte Bobcats were not going to win a lot of games this season if Red Auerbach and John Wooden rose from the dead to co-coach the team. There just wasn’t enough talent. But Mike Dunlap in his one year could not seem to reach what players [...]

MIAMI (AP) – Everyone in the Miami huddle was bracing for a grind to the finish. On the other end, the sense around the Milwaukee bench was that an upset was there for the taking. Then the Heat landed a swift knockout punch. Dwyane Wade [...]

NEW YORK — The Boston Celtics have been a streaky team all season. Sadly, it appears to be holding true in the playoffs as the Celtics suffered similar struggles in Game 2 as they did in Game 1 against the New York Knicks. And the end result [...]

LOS ANGELES — The Grizzlies may have given their best shot to the Clippers in Monday’s Game 2, correcting virtually all of the mistakes they made in the first game of the series. Thanks to the buzzer-beating heroics of Chris Paul, however, [...]

Paul George made a leap this season and people noticed. With Danny Granger basically lost for the year due to knee issues, George took on a larger scoring role with the Pacers — he used 23.5 percent of their possessions when on the court — [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -The Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA fired coach Mike Dunlap after just one season. The Bobcats went 21-61 under Dunlap, finishing with the second-worst record in the NBA ahead of only the Orlando Magic. Charlotte won just [...]

It’s a very different team than last time he was there, but it appears Mike Brown is returning to Cleveland. The Cavaliers have a deal in place to bring Mike Brown back as coach, replacing Byron Scott, who replaced Mike Brown three years ago [...]

The playoffs are all about adjustments, but even though the Warriors find themselves down 1-0 to the Nuggets they really don’t have to change too much heading into this all important game two. Missing David Lee certainly hurts. When looking [...]

NEW YORK—A sight for sore eyes it wasn’t, but the grind-it-out nature of Monday night’s Game 2 of the Bulls-Nets first-round playoff series at the Barclays Center was right up the alley of the visitors from the Windy City. After a dreadful [...]

LOS ANGELES — The Grizzlies may have given their best shot to the Clippers in Monday’s Game 2, correcting virtually all of the mistakes they made in the first game of the series. Thanks to the buzzer-beating heroics of Chris Paul, however, [...]

The Thunder led 13-2 before the Rockets tied the game at 38, but Oklahoma City responded with a 14-1 run late in the first half. Houston hung around the fringe of striking distance before the Thunder made another 13-2 run midway through the [...]

The Knicks have the NBA’s scoring champion at forward in Carmelo Anthony. Now they have the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year, too. As we told you would happen earlier in the day, the New York’s J.R. Smith has been named the NBA Sixth Man of [...]

PHOENIX (AP) – The Phoenix Suns announced Monday that they have parted ways with general manager Lance Blanks after a season during which the team posted the second-worst record in franchise history. In a release, Suns President of Basketball [...]

SAN ANTONIO – There were many tweets of frustration, strategy and encouragement from @KobeBryant during the Los Angeles Lakers’ playoff series opening loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday. This wasn’t just any Lakers fan. [...]

The Thunder led 13-2 before the Rockets tied the game at 38, but Oklahoma City responded with a 14-1 run late in the first half. Houston hung around the fringe of striking distance before the Thunder made another 13-2 run midway through the [...]

While there were some other deserving candidates out the there — we’re looking at you, Jarrett Jack — the race for NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year was essentially a two man race. One that the Knicks J.R. Smith has apparently won. It will [...]

SAN ANTONIO – There were many tweets of frustration, strategy and encouragement from @KobeBryant during the Los Angeles Lakers’ playoff series opening loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday. This wasn’t just any Lakers fan. [...]

The Pacers had statistically the best defense in the NBA this season. They shut teams down. The only question was could they score enough to win in the postseason? Yes. Yes they can. The Pacers answered that question early and often, putting [...]

The Lakers put up a fight in Game 1 of their playoff series in San Antonio on Sunday, and hung within striking distance for most of the game. But thanks to a suffocating defensive effort from the Spurs, L.A. couldn’t score with enough frequency [...]