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Donovan Mitchell sets Utah Jazz playoff scoring record in Game 1 overtime loss

The best scoring presentation in Utah Jazz playoff history doesn’t have a place with Karl Malone or John Stockton or any other individual whose shirt hangs in the rafters at Vivint Arena. It has a place now with Donovan Mitchell. The Utah Jazz’s All-Star guard put on an offensive showcase on Monday afternoon, scoring a […]

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Los Angeles Lakers’ bubble battles leave no obvious title most loved entering NBA playoffs

On account of the Los Angeles Lakers’ battles in the bubble, there is no obvious most loved to win the NBA championship entering the playoffs, for a change. Some sportsbooks have the Milwaukee Bucks as the team to beat, while different bookmakers despite everything have the Lakers pegged as the top choices, and in Las […]

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Houston Rockets’ Russell Westbrook (quad) to be reexamined before NBA playoffs

Houston Rockets guard Russell Westbrook’s accessibility for the start of the NBA playoffs is questionable after a MRI uncovered a stressed muscle in his right quadriceps, the team reported Wednesday. Westbrook won’t play in the rest of the seeding schedule and will be reconsidered before the playoffs start one week from now. Houston is set […]

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Sizzling San Antonio Spurs, Gregg Popovich floated by bubble play

San Antonio Spurs mentor Gregg Popovich was asked before Tuesday afternoon’s game what he would tell somebody on the off chance that they disclosed to him a month prior that his team could go 6-2 in the NBA’s restart and conceivably make the playoffs. “I would have had them drug-tested,” Popovich deadpanned. San Antonio was […]

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NBA to name Bubble MVP of seeding games, all-bubble team

There will be a NBA Bubble MVP. The league declared that there will be an All-Seeding Games Team and a Player of the Seeding Games, respecting the best performers from the seeding games that began July 30 and will finish up Friday. The awards will be reported Saturday afternoon, before Game 1 of the Western […]

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Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo catapulted after head-butting Washington Wizards’ Moritz Wagner

After at first being questionable to take an interest, Milwaukee Bucks reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo’s night on Tuesday finished right on time against the Washington Wizards after he was shot out in the first half. Antetokounmpo was hit with an outrageous foul 2 for his head-butt into Moritz Wagner at 8:50 in the second quarter. […]

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Brooklyn Nets’ Kevin Durant picks LA Clippers to beat Bucks in NBA Finals

With one of the most open NBA postseasons in years, there’s no clear title most loved at the present time, yet the LA Clippers got one major endorsement: Kevin Durant. “If I had to choose — and I hate doing that s— because you never know what could happen, you seen that with us last […]

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Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr. proceeds restart surge, yet Nikola Jokic genuinely wows Gregg Popovich in Denver’s success over Spurs

Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. became just the third rookie since 2000 to post continuous 30-point double-doubles yet it was Nikola Jokic who left Gregg Popovich feeling like he had quite recently confronted a Hall of Famer. “Porter is a fine young talent,” the San Antonio Spurs coach said. “And Jokic, he’s like a […]

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WNBA players are wearing ‘Vote Warnock’ black t-shirts for Kelly Loeffler’s adversary in senate race

WNBA players are wearing black t-shirts with the words “Vote Warnock” on it this week to help Raphael Warnock who is running for Senate in Georgia. He is running against incumbent Kelly Loffler, part-proprietor of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream and who has been vocal about her resistance to the league’s attention on the Black Lives […]

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Michael Porter Jr. scores career-high 37 in Denver Nuggets’ additional time win

Michael Porter Jr. messaged Michael Malone three times over the past few days, revealing to him he can improve and begging the Denver Nuggets mentor to stay with the talented rookie. “I said, ‘Michael, I’m not going anywhere,’” Malone texted back. “I’m gonna stay with you.” Porter rewarded Malone and helped everybody to remember how […]