On a night where the Timberwolves offense disappeared for stretches, Anthony Edwards tried to take over by himself.
Minnesota had weathered a Denver run and got Game 4 to a seven-point game. Then the Nuggets scored eight points in the final 20 seconds.
Minnesota has the league’s top defense, but Denver showed it's no slouch on that side of the ball early in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals.
On Mother's Day 2024, the Indiana Pacers delivered the mother of all blowouts to the New York Knicks.
The Indiana Pacers are playing lights-out basketball on Mother's Day as they look to tie up their second-round series with the New York Knicks.
The Nets are lacking a first-round pick in the 2024 NBA Draft.
For six months, NBA teams battle each other to get home-court advantage. In the Nuggets-Timberwolves series, that's been meaningless. After the Wolves blew out the Nuggets in Denver in Game 2, Denver returned the favor in Minneapolis in Game 3.
The Pacers finally won a game in crunch time and the Nuggets jumped back in their series aggressively. Here are three stars from Friday’s NBA playoff games.
In Game 2, Jamal Murray was throwing hot packs on the court. In the first half of Game 3, he was simply hot.
Nembhard made his first three-pointer of the game with 18 seconds left to give the Pacers the lead. Indiana held on for a 111-106 win over the New York Knicks in Game 3 of a second-round playoff series.
The Pacers needed a fast start in Game 3. Tyrese Haliburton answered the bell.
Indiana Pacers HC Rick Carlisle is making some wild claims about the officiating in his team's second-round series against the New York Knicks.
The Knicks took a 2-0 lead but lost another key player to injury, Reggie Miller returned to Madison Square Garden as an announcer and still got booed and the referees had another rough fourth quarter. Here are three stars from Wednesday’s NBA playoff game.
Jalen Brunson’s foot injury kept him out of the second quarter of Game 2. Then he scored 24 points in the second half.
The Indiana Pacers thought they were victims of questionable officiating in Game 1. A strange sequence at the end of Game 2 was even more questionable.
Trailing by double digits early in the third quarter of Game 2, the New York Knicks turned to their trio of Villanova Wildcats to key their comeback.
When Tyrese Haliburton’s three-point shot is falling, the Pacers’ offense is electric.
The Pacers found a way to counter the Knicks' Jalen Brunson in the first quarter of Game 2: Two point guards at once.
The top seeds in each conference showed why they are the top seeds in Game 1 of their second-round series. The Celtics crushed the Cavs while the Thunder’s top two trumped Dallas’ dynamic duo. Here are three stars from Tuesday’s NBA second-round action.
Seven different Thunder players made two or more three-pointers, a balanced attack that the Mavericks’ defense couldn’t handle.
Boston rode a 32-point performance by Jaylen Brown and three quarters of strong defense to easily defeat the Cavaliers, who got dominated on the boards and from three-point range.
Jayson Tatum is ice-cold from three-point range. Luckily Derrick White is picking up the slack for him.
Rudy Gobert’s darkness retreat helped lead to his fourth Defensive Player of the Year award.
The Timberwolves' relentless defense got to the Nuggets Monday night, even on an emotional level.
New York won another game with controversial calls that went down to the wire. Minnesota looked more like contenders than the defending champs. Here are three stars from Monday’s NBA playoffs.