On Tuesday, a pair of the league’s citizenship awards were announced. Two members of the Silver & Black received nominations. Harrison Barnes was nominated as an NBA Sportsmanship Award Finalist. The award is given to a player who most “exemplifies the ideals of sportsmanship on the court with ethical behavior, fair play, and integrity.” He was nominated […]
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Houston Rockets vs New York KnicksMarch 31, 2026 Location: Toyota Center – Houston, Texas TV: NBC/Peacock Radio: KBME Sports Talk 790 Online: Rockets App, SCHN+ Time: 7:00 Probable Starting Lineups Rockets: Amen Thompson, Reed Sheppard, Kevin Durant, Jabari Smith, Alperen Sengun. Knicks: Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby, Karl-Anthony Towns
One step closer to the end of the season. The Brooklyn Nets hosted the Sacramento Kings on Sunday night. The Nets jumped ahead early and never let go as they won 116-99. The W snapped their ten game losing streak. The opponent tonight has been one of the bigger stories of the NBA season. The […]
Season averages: Minutes per game – 8.2 Points – 3.0 Rebounds – 1.0 Assists 1.0 Steals – 0.6 Field goal percentage – 48.9% Three-point percentage – 35.7% (5/14) Free-throw percentage – 80% (16/20) Season highs: Points – 12 at Michigan Rebounds – 3 at Michigan and vs Sacred Heart Assists – 4 (three times) Steals […]
The Wizards final West coast trip of the 2025-26 season ended about the way you’d expect — with a blowout loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. The final margin was only 19. The game itself didn’t feel that close, which is pretty normal for the Wizards this season. Both the Wizards and Lakers shot poorly […]
Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown considered his performance in Monday night’s 112-102 loss to the Atlanta Hawks substandard at best. “That was probably one of my worst games of the season, in my opinion,” Brown told reporters, per CLNS Media. Brown rejoined the Celtics after sitting out two straight games with left Achilles tendinitis. He […]
Well, at least it wasn’t just the third quarter that sunk them tonight. Philadelphia fell apart down the stretch, losing 119-109 to the Miami Heat Monday night. They are now41-34, still the seventh seed but have lost the season series tiebreaker to Miami. Tyrese Maxey had another solid second half to finish with 23 points […]
The Nets “rested” Ziaire Williams vs the Sacramento Kings Sunday. It was well-deserved after what has become a breakout month of March in which he’s put up the kind of numbers the Grizzlies hoped for when they took him with the 10th pick in the 2021 NBA Draft and when the Nets traded for him […]
The Knicks lost the finals preview against the Thunder, but most worryngly we got the “still learning the system” talk back. New York has a handful of games left, is bound to finish with the third or fourth seed, and they better avoid the latter if they don’t want to suffer. Here’s the latest set […]
Welcome to the Game Day Thread for the games in the week of 3/30. What a weird week it was last week. The team didn’t play much like the five game winning streak team. Bad news is we really needed more of those points. The good news is we only have two games this week. Get ready for the West Coast trip – you can sleep after we’ve made the playoffs (maybe).
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DeMar DeRozan recently passed Tim Duncan in the All-Time scoring list, and should pass Dominique Wilkins and Oscar Robertson this season, if he’s not shut down by the tanking Kings. It’s not surprising to see one of the best scorers of his generation potentially cracking the top 15 next season, but what makes DeRozan’s story […]
The Brooklyn Nets just couldn’t hold back any longer. After 10 straight losses, some being utter blowouts and others gut-wrenching fumbles at the goal line, the Nets returned home from their road trip heads hanging. Few fans want them winning games right now, and even fewer expect them to, but for the guys on the […]
There’s a certain comedy in the agony for Nets fans right now, and frankly, all fans of tanking teams. There has to be. Otherwise it would really be a brutal watch… assuming you’re still watching. Typing out this sentence feels wrong, but it’s the reality: the Brooklyn Nets need to lose tonight. And not just […]
The rematch between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao may be falling apart. If it does, we should be glad. In February, the streaming giant Netflix announced that the two would fight again on September 19 at The Sphere in Las Vegas, with Mayweather announcing around the same time that he was “resuming his boxing career” […]
Season averages: Points – 12.3 Rebounds – 2.1 Assists – 2.1 Steals – 0.7 FG% – 38.3 3P% – 35.6 FT% – 77.1 Third in the Big East in three pointers made per game Season highs: Points – 27 vs Sacred Heart Rebounds – 6 at Providence Assists – 4 (five times) Steals – 2 […]
Back home. The Brooklyn Nets wrapped up their four game West Coast road trip with a late night affair against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Nets gave the Lakers a good fight, but not good enough to come away with a win. The losing streak is at ten. The opponent tonight is counting the clock […]
Even after Thursday night’s loss to the Charlotte Hornets, the Knicks have remained one of the hottest teams in the league over the last couple of months. Thankfully, that has helped distract some fans from focusing too much on the absence of backup guard Deuce McBride, who has been out since January with a sports […]
The late Bill Walton occupies a unique place in basketball history. He ranks with the greatest centers – Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Hakeem Olajuwon, among others – but injuries greatly limited his career. But when he was healthy, he was indisputably great. Boston Celtics teammate Robert Parish was speaking to former Celtic […]
With Illinois reaching the Final Four tonight, we re-post this interview of Deron Willliams, discussing about Brad Underwood. In the Illini nation, the opinion of Deron Williams will always hold sway. The greatest NBA player in Illini basketball history, or at least for the modern era, he is what you would call “a club legend.” […]
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The Atlanta Hawks were in action on Saturday evening to face the Sacramento Kings. The Hawks were coming into this game after a tough loss against the Boston Celtics yesterday, and they were looking to get back on track against a team who hasn’t played well. The Kings have had a long injury list throughout […]
The Atlanta Hawks (41-33) really ought to handle the lottery-bound Sacramento Kings (19-55), but crazier things have happened. Dyson Daniels (left great toe sprain), Onyeka Okongwu (left index finger sprain), and Jonathan Kuminga (left knee injury management) have all been ruled out for this game. Starting lineup: Please join in the comments below as you […]
The Chicago Blackhawks wrap up a set of back-to-back games against the New York Rangers on Friday night. In the house of the worst home team in the NHL, the Hawks have a chance to make amends for last night’s turnover debacle .
The last time these two met was a 3-0 shutout for Chicago at the United Center on Dec. 3. The New York Rangers were having an up-and-down start to the season. Since then, it’s been mostly down. The Rangers sit in 31st place with 65 points and were officially elimin...
At the bank this morning the teller was talking about movies and asked if I’d seen Sinners. When I said I had, she asked what I thought of it. For better or worse, our expectations not only shape our realities, they often become them. I haven’t met anyone who’s seen Sinners and not enjoyed it; […]
It’s not quite a Friday news dump, but it might as well be one. In his latest attempt to thwart tanking, NBA commissioner Adam Silver leaked a few new rules he plans to implement to ESPN’s Shams Charania. Here are lots of words: Like everything else the NBA does — see: the current CBA, All-Star […]