MIAMI — The NBA playoffs that start this weekend already have an extremely tough act to follow. The regular season ended with a flourish. Wednesday’s final night of the regular season was well beyond dramatic — an overtime game between Minnesota and Denver to decide the last berth, another overtime game between Miami and Toronto …
Russell Westbrook joined Oscar Robertson last season as the only players to average a triple-double per game over the course of an entire season. Now he is the only one to have done it twice. The Oklahoma City superstar entered the final two games of the 2017-18 campaign needing 34 total rebounds to average 10 …
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MIAMI — The NBA playoffs that start this weekend already have an extremely tough act to follow. The regular season ended with a flourish. Wednesday’s final night of the regular season was well beyond dramatic — an overtime game between Minnesota and Denver to decide the last berth, another overtime game between Miami and Toronto …
The learning curve of the Philadelphia 76ers has taken on a new, more direct and simpler geometric shape. It’s now a straight line, pulled and yanked that way by an impatient team determined to take the expressway from now on. And so this is where The Process has led them, to the NBA playoffs, a …
Jimmy Butler scored 18 points in his return from right knee surgery and set the tone defensively Friday night in the Timberwolves’ 113-96 victory over the Lakers. Butler was inserted into the starting lineup, played 22 minutes and was 7 for 10 from the field with two rebounds, one assist and four steals in his …
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Jimmy Butler scored 18 points in his return from right knee surgery and set the tone defensively Friday night in the Timberwolves’ 113-96 victory over the Lakers. Butler was inserted into the starting lineup, played 22 minutes and was 7 for 10 from the field with two rebounds, one assist and four steals in his …
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Jimmy Butler scored 18 points in his return from right knee surgery and set the tone defensively Friday night in the Timberwolves’ 113-96 victory over the Lakers. Butler was inserted into the starting lineup, played 22 minutes and was 7 for 10 from the field with two rebounds, one assist and four steals in his …
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Jimmy Butler scored 18 points in his return from right knee surgery and set the tone defensively Friday night in the Timberwolves’ 113-96 victory over the Lakers. Butler was inserted into the starting lineup, played 22 minutes and was 7 for 10 from the field with two rebounds, one assist and four steals in his …
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Jimmy Butler scored 18 points in his return from right knee surgery and set the tone defensively Friday night in the Timberwolves’ 113-96 victory over the Lakers. Butler was inserted into the starting lineup, played 22 minutes and was 7 for 10 from the field with two rebounds, one assist and four steals in his …
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Lob City was disbanded with last summer’s trade of Chris Paul and the midseason dealing of Blake Griffin. Its end felt much more final on Saturday with the Clippers’ 134-115 loss to Denver. The defeat meant LA would miss the playoffs for the first time since that core united in Los Angeles in 2011. It …
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