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• Meet the No. 1 seeds in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament

Steve Roberts-Imagn Images Here’s everything you need to know about the No. 1 seeds in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament. The NCAA Tournament bracket is now set, 68 teams set to do battle for the national championship trophy in the best month in sports. However, with this year being as chaotic as it was, four teams separated themselves from the pack, battling through injuries and loaded sche...2025
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• Doug Christie Has 'Strong Chance' Of Remaining Head Coach Of Kings

Doug Christie has a "strong chance" of remaining as head coach of the Sacramento Kings this offseason if they continue their current trajectory, sources tell The Athletic. Christie was elevated to interim head coach in December when the Kings fired Mike Brown. The Kings have yet to make a decision either way. Since Christie became interim head coach, the Kings are 11th in the NBA in net rating. Th...2025
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• Kings' center Domantas Sabonis out with hamstring strain, to be re-evaluated in one week

Sacramento's offense falls way off and the team has a -4.1 net rating when Sabonis is out this season....2025
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• The NBA Media is about to give the MVP to the wrong guy… again

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/Getty Images The race between Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a clear winner, it’s just not the one NBA media is acting like it is. The MVP race should be over. In fact, it probably is over… for the wrong person. It’s been known for months that this year’s race is between two stars: Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. All available polls, bettin...2025
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• Pacific Notes: LaVine, Ellis, Kawhi, Kuminga
It was an up-and-down first couple weeks in Sacramento for Zach LaVine, who was making just 43.0% of his shots from the floor – including 26.4% of his three-point tries – and had a -6.6 net rating as a member of the Kings entering Monday’s matchup with Charlotte. However, LaVine enjoyed his best game of […]...2025
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• Asuka Fires Back At Fan Criticism About One Of Her WWE NXT Matches
The post Asuka Fires Back At Fan Criticism About One Of Her WWE NXT Matches first appeared on PWMania - Wrestling News.WWE star Asuka recently took to Twitter/X to reflect on her 2016 NXT TakeOver match against Mickie James, calling it “really great.” However, one fan responded with criticism, sharing a Cagematch.net rating and dismissing the bout as “boilerplate hardcam WWE slop...2025
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• Meet the No. 1 seeds in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament
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• 6 NBA teams who can win the 2025 Finals, ranked by their championship chances

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Only a handful of teams can realistically win the 2025 NBA championship. Let’s rank ‘em. The NBA is in its parity era, and it’s made the race of the championship more wide open than it’s been at any point in the league’s existence. NBA history is littered with dynasties, but those days might be over: no team has won back-to-back championships since Kevin ...2025
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• 5 NBA teams that got better at trade deadline, and 3 that got worse

Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images Here are the teams who got better at the NBA trade deadline, and the ones who got worse. The 2025 NBA trade deadline will be remembered as one of the wildest in league history. The Luka Doncic-for-Anthony Davis swap between the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks is just starting to set in, while players like De’Aaron Fox and Zach LaVine have ...2025
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• NBA MVP candidates, ranked for 2025 by who should win the award right now

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/Getty Images Let’s rank the candidates for the 2025 NBA MVP award. What makes an NBA MVP? For some, the award should go to the best player alive regardless of team performance. To others, MVP has a stronger narrative pull for players who elevated their team to new heights (see: Derrick Rose in 2011) or who broke through unthinkable glass ceilings (see: Russell Wes...2025
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• Rudy Gobert and Julius Randle beefing on court made Wolves unravel vs. Raptors

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images The Wolves were pointing fingers at each other as they melted down vs. the Raptors. The Minnesota Timberwolves enjoyed one of the finest seasons in franchise history last year, winning 56 games and advancing to the Western Conference Finals. The Wolves were seen as a young and ascendant team behind 23-year-old superstar Anthony Edwards, but with a big lu...2024
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• The Warriors rediscovered their championship formula with a new crew around Stephen Curry

Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images The Warriors have reinvented themselves as an NBA championship contender once again The Golden State Warriors’ dynasty has been pronounced dead so many times over the years. It was dead when a 73-win team blew a 3-1 lead in the 2016 NBA Finals to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. It was dead when Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson each suffered ...2024
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• Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics have created a relentless culture of winning

Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images Regardless of who has been on the floor, the defending champions have fittingly been the best team this preseason. BOSTON – Every now and then, confetti still falls from the rafters at TD Garden. In a Saturday night Celtics thrashing, a small piece of paper landed on Derrick White’s head. On Sunday, a few pieces were collected by an excited cou...2024
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• Is a New York Liberty championship as inevitable as a Celtics title was?

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Sabrina Ionescu and Breanna Stewart have powered a historically dominant team all year — do the Minnesota Lynx have a chance? BROOKLYN — To say that the New York Liberty dominated the WNBA season is a massive understatement. They finished the season with a 32-8 record, winning games by an average margin of 9.2 points. They boasted two win streaks of 8 ga...2024
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• The definitive guide to the WNBA playoffs

Photo by Michael Hickey/NBAE via Getty Images We’ve got it all — key matchups, predictions, schedules and everything else you need to know ahead of the first round of the WNBA postseason. It’s WNBA playoff time: matchups are set, the schedule is out, and all that’s left is the basketball to be played. This postseason comes on the heels of a regular season that shattered attendance and vie...2024
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• New York Liberty face Atlanta Dream in WNBA playoffs: preview, predictions, schedule, matchups and more

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Sabrina Ionescu, Breanna Stewart, and Jonquel Jones host Allisha Gray, Tina Charles and Rhyne Howard in a Liberty-Dream first round matchup. The New York Liberty (32-8) host the Atlanta Dream (15-25) in the first round of the WNBA playoffs, a best-of-three series that features two-time MVP Breanna Stewart, one-time MVP Jonquel Jones, the league’s all-ti...2024
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• Jae Crowder's Mixed Feelings About Boston Celtics Fans Should Be Mutual
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• Everything That's on the Line in Miami Heat-Toronto Raptors Game 7
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• NBA Friday Roundup: Damian Lillard's 51 Points Trip History-Hunting Warriors
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• Will Golden State Warriors Have More Wins Than Philadelphia 76ers' Have Losses?
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• Meet Steph Curry, the NBA's Most Beloved Megastar
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• How Much Better Will the Detroit Pistons Be Without Josh Smith?
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• David Lee's Reserve Role Could Put Golden State Warriors over the Top
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• The Warriors’ trio of centers will decide their fate in the NBA Playoffs

Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images The Warriors centers can’t be placeholders if they’re to make another championship run The year is 2000. Planes haven’t fallen from the air, but people sure seem to be tumbling as the Indiana Pacers are facing the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals. In Game 2, the Pacers’ starting Center Dale Davis fouls out. Backup center Sam Perkins fouls out. Thi...2025
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• 6 NBA teams who can win the 2025 Finals, ranked by their championship chances
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• 5 NBA teams that got better at trade deadline, and 3 that got worse
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• 4 De’Aaron Fox trade packages that actually make sense

Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Four teams that could trade for De’Aaron Fox. The first rumblings that De’Aaron Fox could be traded by the Sacramento Kings this season surfaced only a month ago. A week after those initial reports, Sacramento fired head coach Mike Brown, replaced him with Doug Christie, and immediately went on a seven-game winning streak. As the Kings have come back down ...2025
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• De’Aaron Fox trade rumors are here, and the Spurs are the first hat in the ring

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images De’Aaron Fox isn’t on the trade block yet, but the Spurs are already reportedly lining up. The Sacramento Kings have been one of the most frustrating teams in the NBA to start the 2024-25 season. Expectations were high for the Kings after acquiring DeMar DeRozan over the summer on a $76.7 million deal, but thus far the only thing Sacramento is doing cons...2024
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• Russell Westbrook is writing a perfect closing chapter with the Nuggets

Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images Russell Westbrook is redefining himself on the Nuggets by doing the little things. Nikola Jokic typically doesn’t get involved in the Denver Nuggets’ business at the ownership and front office level, so it raised a few eyebrows to see the three-time MVP go to bat for a free agent addition during an otherwise morbid offseason in Denver. As the ...2024
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• LeBron James is losing to Father Time, and the Lakers are cooked

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Only trades for more help can save the Lakers from falling off a cliff. The Los Angeles Lakers’ first 14 games provided a fleeting moment of hope that perhaps a new head coach really could fix all their problems. Since then, the Lakers have descended into the cold reality of their long-time mediocrity, slipping down the Western Conference standings as th...2024
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• 5 NBA teams beating expectations so far

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images These teams are cooking coming out of the gates. It’s important to be skeptical of small sample sizes early in a new NBA season. The league’s eternal 82-game grind leaves plenty of time to make up ground in the standings, or waste a hot start. At the same time, trends start stabilizing around the 20-game mark of the season, or about a quarter of the way thro...2024
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• The Warriors rediscovered their championship formula with a new crew around Stephen Curry
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• The misunderstood brilliance of Jose Alvarado

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images There’s more than meets the eye with Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado. Ask an NBA fan about Jose Alvarado, and chances are the first thing they bring up is his defense. And for good reason. The Puerto Rican guard who’s generously listed at 6-feet tall has made a name for himself in the basketball world over the past half decade as one of the sports’ preeminen...2024
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• Meet the No. 1 seeds in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament
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• The NBA Media is about to give the MVP to the wrong guy… again
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• The Warriors’ trio of centers will decide their fate in the NBA Playoffs
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• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Moves Ahead Of Nikola Jokic In Latest NBA MVP Straw Poll

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is ahead of Nikola Jokic in ESPN's latest MVP straw poll. Gilgeous-Alexander received 70 first place votes and thirty second place votes. Jokic, who was first in the previous straw poll, received 30 first place votes, 69 second place votes and one third place vote. The two players are 122 points apart as the MVP race is now down to Gilgeous-Alexander and Jokic. Giannis Ante...2025
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• 6 NBA teams who can win the 2025 Finals, ranked by their championship chances
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• 5 NBA teams that got better at trade deadline, and 3 that got worse
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• 4 De’Aaron Fox trade packages that actually make sense
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• The Celtics’ blown 3-on-1 break shows how unserious they are right now

The Celtics’ botched 3-on-1 fastbreak exemplifies their recent struggles. The Boston Celtics were dominant on their run to an NBA championship last season, finishing the year 80-21 overall when you combine their regular season and playoff record. Their title defense hasn’t been as easy thus far. Boston is just 8-8 over its last 16 games after falling to the Atlanta Hawks, 119-115, in overtime on S...2025
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• NBA Net Rating (Week 12): Thunder Extend Lead Over Cavs Despite Head-To-Head Loss

The win streak of the Oklahoma City Thunder ended at the Cleveland Cavaliers last week, but their Net Rating improved to 12.8 points per 100 possessions. The Cavaliers dropped from 11.8 to 10.8 following loss to the Indiana Pacers on Sunday. The Thunder and Cavaliers will meet again this week on Thursday. NBA Net Rating (Week 12):1. Thunder: 12.82. Cavaliers: 10.83. Celtics: 9.54. Grizzlies: 7.55...2025
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• NBA MVP candidates, ranked for 2025 by who should win the award right now
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• De’Aaron Fox trade rumors are here, and the Spurs are the first hat in the ring
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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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• LeBron James is losing to Father Time, and the Lakers are cooked
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• Rudy Gobert and Julius Randle beefing on court made Wolves unravel vs. Raptors
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• The misunderstood brilliance of Jose Alvarado
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• Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics have created a relentless culture of winning
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• Is a New York Liberty championship as inevitable as a Celtics title was?
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• The definitive guide to the WNBA playoffs
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• The Cavs and Clippers both face huge, similar questions in the NBA playoffs

Art via Thilo Latrell Widder, original photos via Getty Images The Cavaliers and Clippers, more alike than you may realize, face similar questions as they enter the NBA playoffs. Before we go anywhere else, I am not comparing Jarrett Allen and Michael Olowakandi, nor Cavaliers Shawn Kemp to Clippers James Harden, but there’s something to be said about how similar the Cavs and Clippers hav...2024
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• Every NBA Playoffs team, ranked by chances to win 2024 championship

Rob Gray-USA TODAY Sports Let’s rank the 16 teams in the 2024 NBA Playoffs by their championship chances. The 2024 NBA Playoffs don’t exactly feel wide open. There’s a superpower hanging over both the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference as the playoffs begin, but at this point NBA fans should know anything can happen in the postseason. Last year saw a wild run of upsets with the ...2024
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• Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Praises Kawhi Leonard's 'Bored to Death' Demeanor
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• Entire Atlanta Hawks Starting 5 Named NBA January Players of the Month in East
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• Metta World Peace: Latest News, Rumors and Speculation Surrounding Free-Agent SF
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• How Warriors Front Office Built the NBA's Most Potent Team
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• The Case for LeBron James to Win NBA MVP Yet Again
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• How Does the Warriors' 20-2 Start Compare to the Greatest Starts in NBA History?
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• LeBron James: Tristan Thompson 'Should Probably Be a Cavalier His Entire Career'
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• Even Minus a LeBron, Hawks' Clutch Play Says They Can Make Deep Playoff Run
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• Kristaps Porzingis Already Challenging Carmelo Anthony As Knicks' Best Player
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• Monday NBA Roundup: Kevin Durant's Return Propels Thunder Back to Elite Status
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• Crowded NBA Western Conference Is Just a 4-Team Race
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• Sacramento Kings Playing a Dangerous Game with DeMarcus Cousins
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• Anderson Varejao's Injury Should Expedite Cavaliers Hitting Trade Market
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• Dallas Mavericks Need Monta Ellis as Much as He Needs Them
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• Fantasy Basketball 2014: Top 10 Rankings and Sleepers at Each Position
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• Breaking Down Cleveland Cavaliers' Point Guard Position for 2014-15 Season
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• Meet the No. 1 seeds in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament
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• The NBA Media is about to give the MVP to the wrong guy… again
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• Pacific Notes: LaVine, Ellis, Kawhi, Kuminga
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• The Warriors’ trio of centers will decide their fate in the NBA Playoffs
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• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Moves Ahead Of Nikola Jokic In Latest NBA MVP Straw Poll
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• 6 NBA teams who can win the 2025 Finals, ranked by their championship chances
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• 5 NBA teams that got better at trade deadline, and 3 that got worse
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• The Celtics’ blown 3-on-1 break shows how unserious they are right now
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• NBA Net Rating (Week 11): Thunder Remain No. 1 Ahead Of Cavs, Celtics, Grizzlies, Knicks

The Oklahoma City Thunder are in the midst of a gauntlet schedule over a two-week span in which they play the New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers twice, plus a game against the Boston Celtics. So far, the Thunder continue to win and remain No. 1 ahead of those East teams. NBA Net Rating (Week 11):1. Thunder: 12.22. Cavaliers: 11.83. Celtics: 10.44. Grizzlies: 7.85. Knicks: 7.36. Rockets: 5.67....2025
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• NBA MVP candidates, ranked for 2025 by who should win the award right now
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• The Warriors’ trio of centers will decide their fate in the NBA Playoffs
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• 5 NBA teams that got better at trade deadline, and 3 that got worse
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• De’Aaron Fox trade rumors are here, and the Spurs are the first hat in the ring
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• The Cavs and Clippers both face huge, similar questions in the NBA playoffs
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• The Chicago Bulls aren’t good, but they are clutch as hell

Photo by Alex Goodlett/Getty Images Nobody in the NBA is more clutch than the Chicago Bulls. The Chicago Bulls can’t stop winning clutch games. The Bulls beat the Utah Jazz, 119-117, on Wednesday night in Salt Lake City to keep the team’s incredible clutch alive. The Bulls have been a sub .500 team all year — they’re currently 26-28, ninth in the Eastern Conference — but they have an incr...2024
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• Alex Caruso’s genius is being wasted on hopeless Chicago Bulls

Photo by Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Alex Caruso deserves better than the Bulls. It is almost impossible to successfully defend Kevin Durant. Even at 35 years old, the superstar forward has one of the most advanced scoring arsenals in the league, a near 7-footer with deep range and soft touch on his jumper who can shoot over defenders with a hesi pull-up jimbo whenever h...2023
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• Cavaliers 'Absolutely' Will Keep J.B. Bickerstaff As Head Coach Next Season

The Cleveland Cavaliers reaffirmed they will retain J.B. Bickerstaff as head coach next season. "End that speculation. Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. There's no question about that," Koby Altman told cleveland.com and one other outlet when asked if Bickerstaff would return for the 2023-24 campaign during a private conversation following his 40-minute end-of-season press conference at Cleveland Clini...2023
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• Jaylen Brown Remains Vital to Celtics Despite Inconsistent Rookie Season
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• Carmelo Anthony, Courtney Lee Comment on Knicks' Struggles After Loss to 76ers
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• Wednesday NBA Roundup: Joel Embiid, Kristaps Porzingis in Disparate Situations
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