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• Celtics legend Larry Bird ‘was that dude,’ former teammate Cedric Maxwell says

Boston Celtics forward Cedric Maxwell was anxiously awaiting the arrival of rookie Larry Bird in 1979. And not because Maxwell thought Bird could change the trajectory of the franchise. Rather, Maxwell thought he could show the high-profile Bird what it actually took to play in the NBA. Back then, the Celtics’ veterans would get together with […] The post Celtics legend Larry Bird...2025
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• Tatum joins Larry Bird as only Celtics to accomplish this rare feat

Jayson Tatum continues to put his name into the Celtics' record books....2025
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• 5 Cooper Flagg NBA comparisons that show why he’s No. 1 pick in our mock draft

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Cooper Flagg might be the best American-born basketball prospect since LeBron James entered the 2003 NBA Draft. That’s a bold claim to make against the likes of Anthony Davis at Kentucky, Zion Williamson at Duke, Greg Oden at Ohio State, and Derrick Rose at Memphis, but Flagg has put himself in that conversation during an electric freshman year. Flagg ha...2025
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• Skip Bayless Shares Wild Cooper Flagg-Larry Bird Prediction as 2025 NBA Draft Nears
Ahead of the rest of March Madness and the tournament, Cooper Flagg gets compared to Larry Bird by analyst Skip Bayless...2025
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• Hoops Rumors Glossary: Bird Rights

The Bird exception, named after Larry Bird, is a rule included in the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement that allows teams to go over the salary cap to re-sign their own players. A player who qualifies for the Bird exception, formally referred to as a Qualifying Veteran Free Agent, is said to have “Bird rights.” The […]...2025
• ‘Celtics City' beyond the episode: Larry Bird ushers in new era
Larry Bird helped restore the Celtics' winning tradition in the 1980s. Check out our recap of Episode 4 of HBO's docuseries "Celtics City"....2025

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• March Madness’ 50 best players, ranked for 2025 men’s NCAA tournament

Rob Kinnan-Imagn Images Let’s rank the best players in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament College basketball is in a state of transition, and so too is the idea of the modern college basketball star. The defining players in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament do not fit in any particular box. They come from every corner of the world, in all shapes and sizes, each with their own idiosyncratic stren...2025
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• Cooper Flagg is ready to define the next generation of basketball superstardom

Photo by Jim Poorten/NBAE via Getty Images How Cooper Flagg is growing into the next generation’s version of an NBA superstar. Cooper Flagg walked into USA Basketball practice with nothing to lose and everything to prove. He was just about the youngest person in the building, competing against more mature and more accomplished players with far greater pedigrees. He entered the scrimmages ...2024
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• Grant Williams highlights lack of media attention on U.S. women’s basketball at the Olympics — and he’s right

Photo by Michael Gonzales/NBAE via Getty Images When Caitlin Clark was left off of the Olympic basketball roster, media companies’ and fans’ interest in the games shouldn’t have wavered. We’re watching an all-time great team dominate their competition. Grant Williams, who is currently on the ground at the Paris Olympics, called out the sharp disparity in media coverage between the men’s a...2024
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• March Madness is coming. These are men’s college basketball’s burning questions

Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images If you’ve been too distracted by football to pay enough attention to college basketball for the last few months, fear not. We’re here to answer your questions and get you in the mood for March Madness. Have you been so consumed by football for the last five months that you’re woefully behind on what’s been happening in the world of men’s college bask...2024
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• NFL taunting needs to be celebrated, not penalized

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images ‘Let the guys taunt’ The subject of taunting is back on the menu. On Sunday it was Zay Flowers’ turn, when the Ravens receiver was critically flagged in the second half for taunting Chiefs’ DB L’Jarius Sneed. And yes, to be 100 percent clear: This was absolutely taunting by the letter of the law. Agree with the taunting call? pic.twitter.com/StcuPKSoEe...2024
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• NBA MVP is doomed to fully become a regular season award
Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images Chasing the NBA MVP has become a fool’s errand. In Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals, Steph Curry, the first unanimous MVP in NBA history, and reigning 2015 MVP and champion, had a shitty game. He shot 6-of-19 from the field and Golden State was outscored by three points when he was on the floor. The game was an anxious rock fight from the tip, with the Cav...2023
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• What makes Denver's Nikola Jokic so great? He's an amalgamation of Hall of Famers
Nikola Jokic is an amalgamation of Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, pre-injury Arvydas Sabonis and Bill Walton, Hakeem Olajuwon and yes, even LeBron James....2023
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• Joel Embiid predicted his MVP win as an injured rookie on Twitter
Joel Embiid tweeted he’d be MVP as an injured rookie, and he spoke it into existence. There was a time when it felt like we’d never get to see how good Joel Embiid could be in the NBA. The end of Embiid’s one-year college career at Kansas was cut short by a stress fracture in his back, and as he entered the 2014 NBA Draft he had to immediately have surgery on a broken navicular bone in his right f...2023
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• Dillon Brooks isn’t good enough to be the main character of 2023 NBA Playoffs
Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports Dillion Brooks is the main character the NBA Playoffs never needed. The role of the NBA agitator has been around almost as long as the league itself. These players come in all shapes, sizes, and skill levels. Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and Kevin Garnett were all-times greats who knew how to needle their opponents while dominating them. Bill Laimbeer, Dennis R...2023
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• Luka Doncic’s drinking and smoking spooked Mavericks into making a terrible trade

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NBAE via Getty Images Luka is human, apparently. That wasn’t good enough for Nico Harrison. There are several reasons the Dallas Mavericks decided to trade Luka Doncic, but chief among them appears to be ridiculous concern over something petty. One of the big sticking points for Mavs GM Nico Harrison was Doncic’s love of beer and smoking hookah, which he believed ...2025
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• Patrick Dumont 'Unwavering' On Wanting Hard Workers On Mavericks

Patrick Dumont went on the record to discuss the Dallas Mavericks' decision to trade Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers, a shocking trade that came just over a year after the Dumont/Adelson family assumed ownership of the franchise and less than a year after Doncic led the team to The Finals. "It's hard to make tough decisions," Dumont said. "And it's hard to make the right decisions when they'...2025
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• The Purple Row staff shares their favorite Charlie Blackmon memories

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Celebrate one last game with us... TONIIIIIIGHT! It’s official. Charlie Blackmon announced his retirement on Monday, and the final week of the season has been dedicated to honoring his illustrious 14-year career playing mile high baseball. There have been so many on- and off-field moments throughout Blackmon’s tenure that endeared him to so many fans...2024
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• How Nikola Jokic became the best basketball player in the world
Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images Nikola Jokic’s hard journey to becoming the best basketball player in the world fully paid off. Putting a label on Nikola Jokic’s game has long been a nearly impossible challenge for evaluators. Jokic himself might be the only person to effectively do it. As he was leaving home in the northern part of Serbia to enter the 2014 NBA Draft, Jo...2023
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• Big Man, Big Personality: The Oral History of David Ortiz's MLB Adventure
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• Off-Court Fight Keeps Clippers, NBA Wondering Who Blake Griffin Really Is
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• Memphis' Main Man: How Big Macs, Blues City Made Marc Gasol NBA's Top Center
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"Dickinson ends his college career with more points than JJ Redick, and within shouting distance of legends Larry Bird and Tyler Hansbrough."

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"The school’s success in 2023-24 evoked the halcyon days of Larry Bird, and reversed decades of mediocrity for one incredible run."

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"Karl Malone makes $5 million auctioning off 1992 Dream Team memorabilia of Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, more"

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"Celtics vs. Heat: Jayson Tatum wins first-ever Larry Bird Eastern Conference Finals MVP award"

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"Thompson, who’s finally just months away from making his return to the Warriors’ lineup, gave the entire Dub Nation a teaser of him getting back to game shape with the perfect costume […] The post VIDEO: Warriors’ Klay Thompson teases return, goes full Larry Bird for Halloween appeared first on ClutchPoints."

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"Magic Johnson remembers the exact moment he and Larry Bird passed the torch to Michael Jordan"

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"Kawhi Leonard, who won a title with the Raptors before joining the Clippers, becomes just the fifth NBA player to win the AP male athlete of the year award, joining Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Stephen Curry."

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"Here’s Why Doug Gottlieb Believes Larry Bird Is Better Than LeBron James"

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"Larry Bird is reportedly stepping down as the Indiana Pacers' team president."

2016
"I lost to Larry Bird and his Celtics."

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"Four is still twice as many as the next most, by Larry Bird, and only seven players in all have done it at least once."

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"Smith, who covered the entirety of Jordan's Bulls career and remains the foremost authority on all things MJ, makes his case through personal observation and interviews with countless others, from Magic and Larry Bird to Isiah Thomas, Grant Hill and Barack Obama."

• 5 Cooper Flagg NBA comparisons that show why he’s No. 1 pick in our mock draft
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• Hoops Rumors Glossary: Bird Rights
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• Hunter Dickinson’s pathetic March Madness exit had college basketball fans celebrating his demise

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Hunter Dickinson’s college basketball career ended with a thud for Kansas in March Madness. Hunter Dickinson was the first true star of college basketball free agency in the transfer portal. After a productive three-year career at Michigan where he put up huge counting stats and angered every opposing Big Ten fan base, Dickinson transferred to Kansas ahea...2025
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• March Madness’ 50 best players, ranked for 2025 men’s NCAA tournament
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• Luka Doncic’s drinking and smoking spooked Mavericks into making a terrible trade
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• NBA All-Star 2025 predictions and preview for dunk contest, 3-point shootout, and more

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Here are our predictions for the 2025 NBA dunk contest, three-point contest, and skill challenge. The 2025 NBA All-Star Game is here with a bizarre new format, a no-name dunk contest, and Damian Lillard going for a three-point shootout three-peat. Before the main event gets underway on Sunday, All-Star Saturday features the Skills Challenge, 3-Point Conte...2025
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• Patrick Dumont 'Unwavering' On Wanting Hard Workers On Mavericks
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• The Purple Row staff shares their favorite Charlie Blackmon memories
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• Cooper Flagg is ready to define the next generation of basketball superstardom
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• Grant Williams highlights lack of media attention on U.S. women’s basketball at the Olympics — and he’s right
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• 5 Cooper Flagg NBA comparisons that show why he’s No. 1 pick in our mock draft
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• Hunter Dickinson’s pathetic March Madness exit had college basketball fans celebrating his demise
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• Which Lakers Have Made Strongest Debuts vs. Celtics?
With newcomer Luka Doncic making his LA debut against the defending champion Celtics on Saturday, here’s a look at some of the top Lakers debuts vs. Boston: Magic Johnson, 1979Stats: 23 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 stealsGame result: 123-105 win The first installment of the Magic-Larry Bird rivalry in the NBA resulted in a […] The post Which Lakers Have Made Strongest Debuts vs. Celtics?...2025
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• Nikola Jokic is in the NBA’s rarest company on his 30th birthday

Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images Joker is one of the GOATs. It’s difficult to believe that Nikola Jokic has already been in the NBA for a decade. The 2024-25 season marks his 10th year in the league, and February 19 is his 30th birthday. Seen as the icon of the European takeover of the NBA, Jokic is already cemented as the greatest European player in NBA history — but it’s ea...2025
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• Tyler Herro Wins 2025 All-Star 3-Point Contest

Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro won the 2025 All-Star 3-point Contest. Herro scored 24 points in the final round to win the contest. Golden State Warriors guard Buddy Hield finished with 23 points to take second place. Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard was bidding for a third consecutive shootout title. However, Lillard did not advance past the first round. Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird and Ch...2025
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• NBA 3-Point Contest 2025: Format, points, money balls, participants, past champions

Can Damian Lillard become only the third player ever — joining Larry Bird and Craig Hodges — to win the contest three years in a row?...2025
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• NBA All-Star 2025 predictions and preview for dunk contest, 3-point shootout, and more
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• Why is the National Baseball Hall of Fame the most revered among sports?

Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images Very well might be a question without an answer. On Tuesday, the National Baseball Hall of Fame will announce its newest class of inductees. Here at Royals Review, our writers took a look at the ballot and voted a few weeks ago. That’s just one of—what?—hundreds, if not thousands, of articles across the land about the Hall of Fame and who will get the call. Like...2025
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• Nikola Jokic is in the NBA’s rarest company on his 30th birthday
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• Patrick Dumont 'Unwavering' On Wanting Hard Workers On Mavericks
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• Why is the National Baseball Hall of Fame the most revered among sports?
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• Nikola Jokic and Magic Johnson’s highlight reel has stunning similarities

Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images Nikola Jokic and Magic Johnson are linked by more than just triple-doubles Nikola Jokic had already firmly established himself as the best basketball player in the world heading into the 2024-25 season with three NBA MVP trophies, one championship, and one NBA Finals MVP already under his belt before he turned 30 years old. Jokic faced one of ...2024
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• The Purple Row staff shares their favorite Charlie Blackmon memories
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• Cooper Flagg is ready to define the next generation of basketball superstardom
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• Caitlin Clark is already the face of the WNBA. But she’s not the savior

NBAE via Getty Images Caitlin Clark will do great things for the WNBA, but she is merely the leader of all the momentum the league has going for it. It’s about 10:00 p.m. at Brooklyn Academy of Music on Monday night, and the WNBA-est part of the WNBA Draft is unfolding. Well, perhaps third. It was tough to compete with Kate Martin — who merely showed up to support her Iowa teammate Caitli...2024
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• Indiana State’s ridiculously fun NIT run is a reminder of how dumb the selection committee was

Grace Hollars/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK Indiana State rock and they should have been dancing. Indiana State was one of the feel-good stories of college basketball this year. The school’s success in 2023-24 evoked the halcyon days of Larry Bird, and reversed decades of mediocrity for one incredible run. In the end a 29-6 record wasn’t good enough for the selection committee, who snubbed ...2024
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• March Madness is coming. These are men’s college basketball’s burning questions
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• Caitlin Clark’s crossover superstardom is the greatest show in sports

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Caitlin Clark’s transcendence is changing women’s sports for the better. When Michael Jordan arrived in Paris in 1997 for a preseason corporate showcase known as the McDonald’s Championship, the French press treated his appearance with Christ-like reverence. “Michael Jordan is in Paris,” wrote the local tabloid France-Soir, as memorialized in David Halb...2024
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• Is Stephen Curry the Best Shooter Ever? Yes, Say Many of NBA's All-Time Marksmen
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• LeBron James May Never Match the Feats of Michael Jordan, and That's Just Fine
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• Reggie Miller: Kevin Durant Traded a Sacred Legacy for Cheap Jewelry
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• Kevin Durant Is Still the MVP We Know and Love
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• Paul George Injury Update: Pacers Star Says He Will Return vs. Heat
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• Pacers hoping George can play this season
Larry Bird hopes Paul George can return to the game this season after breaking his leg in a gruesome accident last summer -- perhaps as soon as next month....2015
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• Larry Bird 'couldn't imagine' joining Magic Johnson and Lakers
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• Warriors' Curry and Cavaliers' James unanimous picks for 2014-15 All-NBA First Team
The Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry and the Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James headline the 2014-15 All-NBA First Team, the NBA announced today. Curry, the 2014-15 Kia NBA MVP, and James received First Team votes on all 129 ballots. This marks the first All-NBA First Team selection for Curry and the ninth in 12 seasons for James, who tied Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Oscar Robertson for the ...2015
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• Luka Doncic’s drinking and smoking spooked Mavericks into making a terrible trade
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• Mad Huascar Smashes His Way To Be His Own IL-Land
Huascar Ynoa fractured his hand and he will be out for a couple of months. He hurt himself when he punched a bench. I wonder if he exclaimed, "Sonavabench!" How now Kevin Brown. Blergh, I'm a big dummy, my name is Huascar Ynoa. By the way, the title refers to Madagascar, the island nation that accounts for 80% of the world's natural vanilla. The other 20% is Larry Bird, Tom Arnold and Tim Allen. Y...2021
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• Indiana Pacers 2014-15 Season Preview: Roster Breakdown, Win-Loss Prediction
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• 5 Cooper Flagg NBA comparisons that show why he’s No. 1 pick in our mock draft
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• Bryce Young pulled a Stephen Curry and celebrated his touchdown before it was caught

Bryce Young’s comeback story keeps getting better. One of the sneakiest storylines of the NFL season has been Bryce Young getting his career back on track after getting benched early in the season by the Carolina Panthers. The former No. 1 overall pick looked like he was done in Carolina when he lost his starting job to Andy Dalton, but Young eventually returned to the lineup, and has been fantast...2025
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• Nikola Jokic and Magic Johnson’s highlight reel has stunning similarities
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• Cooper Flagg is ready to define the next generation of basketball superstardom
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• NIT bracket update 2024: Updated matchups, schedule after first round

Photo by Chris Gardner/Getty Images The NIT is heating up with some great matchups on deck. The NIT rolls into the Final 8, and it’s been an incredible tournament thus far. This has been exactly what the secondary tournament was created to be, with snubbed mid-majors getting to shine and prove to the world that amazing college basketball exists outside of the big dance. There’s no doubt t...2024
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• NIT 2024: Bracket, schedule, and scores

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Here’s your full NIT bracket and the schedule for the first round. It’s NIT time baby! Some questionable decisions in the NCAA bracket is the NIT’s gain, with the National Invitational Tournament getting national sweetheart Indiana State in their tournament. There’s no doubt this is a mammoth disappointment for the Sycamores. Indiana State was first in th...2024
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• Caitlin Clark’s crossover superstardom is the greatest show in sports
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• Pacers news: Larry Bird’s role with Indiana gets unfortunate update
Larry Bird is one of the most accomplished individuals to ever be involved in the NBA. From being one of the greatest players to ever play during his time with the Celtics to becoming an important part of the Pacers front office following his career, Bird has seemingly done it all. However, there was speculation […] The post Pacers news: Larry Bird’s role with Indiana gets unfortunate ...2022
• Jayson Tatum sets unthinkable Celtics record not even Larry Bird or Bill Russell achieved
The Boston Celtics pulled off a scrappy win against the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday, earning a 1-0 lead in their playoff-opening series matchup. The game was down to the wire and was only decided via a clutch buzzer-beater courtesy of Jayson Tatum, who nailed a fading close-ranged jumper as time expired. Tatum’s game-winner at TD […] The post Jayson Tatum sets unthinkable Celtics record no...2022
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• Off-Court Fight Keeps Clippers, NBA Wondering Who Blake Griffin Really Is
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