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Sunday’s NBA draft lottery provided a bit of a surprise and some unfortunate good luck for the Clippers, who saw the Thunder not jump into the top four while also having the Pacers slip, resulting in the other LA team picking fifth. The Wizards secured the top pick, a familiar place for an Anthony Davis […]
The Western Conference Semifinals between the Spurs and the Timberwolves keeps providing memorable matchups. On Sunday, Victor Wembanyama’s first-half ejection threatened to create a throwaway game, but the Silver and Black responded without their best player and battled to the very end before losing a heartbreaker, 114-109. The series will move back to San Antonio […]
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In what has a chance to be one of the most important nights in Jazz history, the Utah Jazz jumped in the NBA Lottery to the #2 spot for the upcoming NBA draft. Here are the final results, which show all the movement. Aside from it being a massive night for the Wizards, Jazz, Grizzlies, […]
This is not a clear-cut number-one pick type of season. And as great as AJ Dybantsa has proven to be during his freshman year with BYU basketball (leading the nation in points, dragging the smoldering heaps of rubble remaining on Kevin Young's self-destru
Context matters when breaking down sports. “A banged-up Joel Embiid lost in the second round of the NBA Playoffs,” sounds like a familiar story, but that’s only if you ignore everything that’s happened over the last two-plus years. Sure, there was plenty of disappointment after the Sixers were crushed in Game 4 Sunday by the […]
What did Sunday night’s Game 5 win take for the Minnesota Timberwolves? “Some heart,” Rudy Gobert said to the Target Center crowd after the madness had ended. Where do we even start? Perhaps the part where this should have been less close than it ended up as, with a sharp elbow to the face? With […]
Early in the second quarter tonight, Victor Wembanyama, who was being manhandled by multiple players every time he entered the game, tried to spin his way out of a double bear hug from a couple of Wolves, and caught Naz Reid hard on the neck with an elbow. The referees called this a flagrant foul […]
The Philadelphia 76ers now have to deal with this inescapable problem starting next season.
It’s hard to hear after a division rival took over their building and swept them out of the playoffs, but the 2025-26 season was a pretty high-end outcome for the Sixers. They beat the Boston Celtics in a playoff series, Joel Embiid has felt as good as he has about his left knee since January […]
The NBA Draft Lottery has spoken, and the official order of the 2026 NBA Draft has been determined. With the number-one overall pick at their disposal, the Washington Wizards will make the obvious choice and go with BYU's freshman phenom, AJ Dybantsa, rig
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The Sparks were soundly defeated in their season opener on Sunday, losing to the Aces, 105-78. Las Vegas dominated three of the four quarters. LA won the second quarter 27-13 and lost the other three quarters 92-51. LA turned the ball over 19 times, leading to 26 points for Vegas. The Aces also scored 30 […]
After winning the Big East Softball Championship on Saturday afternoon to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Softball Championship, the UConn Huskies found out their destination on Sunday. They will be heading to the Bryan-College Station Regional, where they’ll take on the host and No. 4 overall seed Texas A&M Aggies. The other teams […]
The Miami Heat's path to Giannis didn't get any easier after the NBA Draft Lottery results.
You know the drill, this is part four of our “Fraternizing with the Enemy” Series with our Spurs sister site, Pounding the Rock. I am joined by the ever-encouraging JR Wilco to discuss the things we saw in Game 3’s close loss and to set expectations for a critical Game 4 after back to back […]
Someone needs to save AJ Dybantsa from the doom of playing for the hapless Washington Wizards after they won the NBA Draft lottery.
Sixers Bell Ringer Season Standings: Tyrese Maxey – 23.5VJ Edgecombe – 16Joel Embiid – 14.5Paul George – 10Kelly Oubre Jr. – 6Justin Edwards – 4Dominick Barlow – 3Andre Drummond – 3Quentin Grimes – 3Jared McCain – 3MarJon Beauchamp – 2Adem Bona – 1Porter Martone – 1Cam Payne – 1Jabari Walker – 1Trendon Watford – 115th […]
In what’s become a far too familiar script, the Lakers fell to the Thunder in Saturday’s Game 3 and now trail 3-0. A deficit that’s never been overcome in NBA history. LA’s season is now on the brink of ending on Monday as they attempt to extend the series back to Oklahoma City in Game […]
The Atlanta Hawks have to find their new lead creator to replace Trae Young in the 2026 NBA Draft.
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The 2026 NBA draft lottery was not kind to a handful of teams who threw their 2025-26 seasons away.
Could we be looking at a potential pairing up of the NBA MVPs in five of the last seven seasons? The latest rumor has a blockbuster deal being proposed that would team up 3-time Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic and 2-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, with the Nuggets. Safe to say that that duo together would be unstoppable. But is it even a possibility? We do know that the Milwaukee Bucks are now this close to finally trading Giannis. Insider Chris Mannix says "At some point in the ...
The Cleveland Cavaliers have fallen in five games in the second round of the playoffs the previous two years. They have a chance to avoid that specific fate this season if they can defend home court in Game 4 against the Detroit Pistons and tie the series in the process. Cleveland’s offense came alive in […]
The Philadelphia Sixers need to make changes this offseason, but one of those won't be a Joel Embiid trade, though it's what they need.