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0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/15/2016
The Utah Jazz were stung near the end of the season by established veterans who used to play for them. The Jazz will feel the pain of their loss to Dallas — and their inability to make the playoffs — over the next several months. Yet, if the Jazz lost the battle in 2016, they’re […]
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We’ve tracked them throughout the season, and now we can give you final back-to-back splits for the Western Conference. 2016 NBA SEASON: BACK-TO-BACK COMPOSITES DALLAS MAVERICKS 17 B2Bs Overall record: 16-18 Road split: 11-14 Home split: 5-4 Front ends of B2Bs: 6-11 Back ends of B2Bs: 10-7 45s: 3-1 Road: 1-1 Home: 2-0 DENVER NUGGETS […]
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All the numbers have been collected and added over the past five and a half months, so without further ado, here are back-to-back splits for the 2015-2016 NBA season in the Eastern Conference: 2016 NBA SEASON: BACK-TO-BACK COMPOSITES ATLANTA HAWKS 19 B2Bs Overall record: 24-14 Road split: 12-10 Home split: 12-4 Front ends of B2Bs: […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/14/2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 — it was a “Where were you when?” sports night, and for most American sports fans, Kobe Bryant made it that kind of night. Is that a fact in the same way that 2 + 2 = 4? No. Nevertheless, in judging from Twitter and morning-after output by media outlets, Kobe’s […]
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Author’s note: Check out my preview of the Eastern Conference playoffs at this link. * Relative to the East, the Western Conference is similarly cut and dry: As exciting as the NBA playoffs always are, there is rarely much that knocks you out of your knickers in terms of surprises. Translation: buckle up for fun, […]
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Ah, the NBA playoffs. The beer over a fire pit on a Friday in June. “What did you do on Friday night? We went out to the strip.” “Grabbed a six pack and sat by the fire ’til I fell asleep under the stars.” “That sounds horrible.” “Well, you don’t get it, then.” There’s nothing […]
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Let’s take one more walk on the high wire. Forget about games decided by five points or fewer — let’s offer an even more specific examination of NBA teams and their results this season. Below, you’ll find records in overtime games and games decided by no more than two points. Why two, you might (reasonably) […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 4/13/2016
Check out this move by Giannis as he goes coast to coast and fakes out his defender and finishes with a dunk…..
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On the night Kobe Bryant plays his last NBA game, keep in mind that Bill Russell engineered the best farewell of any especially great NBA player. It is an art, orchestrating the perfect NBA walk-off. Being able to create the perfect exit from an all-time career requires an exquisite sense of timing, but the attempt […]
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Kobe Bryant is one of the greatest Los Angeles Lakers of all time. Being one of the best players for one of professional basketball’s two royal franchises is, itself, the richest of honors, an enduring point of pride and the centerpiece of a legacy. Bryant’s place — as one of the 25 best players in […]
0 comments by John Cannon on 4/12/2016
Steve Kerr could become a Jeopardy! clue later this spring: “This man won 140 games in back-to-back NBA seasons and didn’t win a Coach of the Year Award.” Absurd, right? It could happen. This is the time of the year when NBA people discuss end-of-season awards. The playoff teams are almost all identified, but the […]
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Rick Carlisle has won a world championship. He has firmly established himself as one of the NBA’s five best coaches. Yet, his 2016 season — for reasons totally beyond his control — might get lost in the tides of history. In a season defined by the supreme excellence of the Golden State Warriors and San […]
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The Utah Jazz aren’t an inept organization. They haven’t endured dysfunctional ownership situations or suffered in the face of incompetent management — not for long periods of time, at any rate. Yes, Ty Corbin coached this team for a period of time and destroyed a lot of stomach linings in Salt Lake City, but decades […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 4/11/2016
Check out this play by the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James as he throws down a reverse jam on the Atlanta Hawks….
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The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Atlanta Hawks battled in a potential play-off preview on Monday evening and one of the early highlights was a Jeff Teague to Al Horford alley-oop….
