The Timberwolves missed a golden opportunity to take a 1-0 series lead over the Warriors in their conference semifinals on Tuesday, and Chris Finch expressed disappointment in his star player.
The Indiana Pacers are up 2-0 in the series against the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers. While many are surprised by the situation, maybe they shouldn't be. And maybe the Pacers are just getting started.
Hollywood loves basketball movies and basketball players, which succeed on the big screen at about the same rate as Shaq at the free throw line, which is to say infrequently.
Tyrese Haliburton should expect a fine from the NBA soon. But the Indiana Pacers star sounds more than willing to pay it after his postseason heroics on Tuesday.
When the seventh-seeded Warriors upset the sixth-seeded Timberwolves in Game 1 of their conference semifinals on Tuesday, a 78-year trend dating back to 1947 was broken.
Tuesday's Game 2 against the Cavaliers was the second instance in the ongoing playoffs when the Pacers dug themselves out of such a deep hole, following their series-clinching Game 5 win over the Bucks.
When Stephen Curry headed to the locker room with a hamstring injury in the second quarter, the Golden State Warriors could have panicked. Instead, they locked down the Minnesota Timberwolves in a 99-88 win.
Road teams remained undefeated in the second round of the NBA playoffs Tuesday, as the Pacers shocked the top-seeded Cavaliers and the Warriors downed the Timberwolves in Minneapolis. Here are four stars from Tuesday night's second-round action.
The Cleveland Cavaliers had a seven-point lead in the final minute of Game 2 against the Indiana Pacers. The Milwaukee Bucks could have told them that lead wasn't safe.
Butler has been everything the Golden State Warriors could have hoped for and more since the team acquired him from the Miami Heat at the trade deadline.