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The Lakers with the loss have dropped 5.5 games back of the final playoff spot and hold a 30-34 win-loss record. They have now dropped three consecutive games and 5 out of the last six matches. The Clippers hold a 37-29 record and the seventh spot in the Western Conference playoff standings. They also hold a 2-1 series advantage over the Lakers this season. This was a catastrophic result for the Los Angeles Lakers as the Clippers were a team that they were directly chasing for the playoff spot....

Stats: Pistons- Field Goals 37-89 (41.6 percent), 49 rebounds, 22 assists, 3 blocks. 76ers- Field Goals 44-90 (48.9 percent), 40 rebounds, 26 assists, 12 blocks. Detroit lost their third consecutive game as they were chased and hunted in the last quarter by the 76ers. These losses are tougher to swallow as all of them have come on their home court. 76ers rallied hard late in the fourth quarter to a 13-0 run which changed the course of the game....

Match Details: When: Mar 7th, 2019, 8:00 pm ET Where: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee Watch: TNT The Milwaukee Bucks perspective The Milwaukee Bucks still have the first seed in the East along with the league’s best record. With a relatively easy schedule coming up, they can further widen the gap between themselves and the Toronto Raptors. The Bucks hadn’t lost two games in a row this season till last week. However, that changed, thanks to their losses against the Utah Jazz and the Phoenix Suns....

Blockbuster trades and free agent signings have continued to bolster several playoff teams, and present an opportunity for various new head coaches to experiment with their lineups as the gap in quality between the best teams in the league and the worst ones continues to dwindle down. Let’s take a look at the most mouthwatering lineups in store this season: #5 Knicks Lineup to look out for: Frank Ntilikina (Point Guard), Courtney Lee (Shooting Guard), Kevin Knox (Small Forward), Kristaps Porzingis (Power Forward), Mitchell Robinson (Center)...

He is best known for his defensive work on the basketball court. He has already been named to 3 NBA All-Defensive teams from 2017 to 2019. Gobert was also named the 2018 Defensive Player of the Year in 2018. At 7’1 and 255 lbs with a 7’8 wingspan and a standing reach of 9’7, there is no wonder why he earned the NBA’s blocks leader title in 2017 as he has the length and athletic ability to do so....

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Reminder: Not all of the top options are listed in the Playbook. Great players always make for great plays, but we aim to provide options across all salary ranges, not only the top plays. Position designations are usually listed according to FanDuel eligibility, but players might be eligible at other positions on other sites. Mixing and matching is easier with multiple DraftKings options than on FanDuel. MORE: SN DFS | Fantasy Alarm PRO tools...

Who will the Cavaliers pick first overall? Will Joel Embiid fall down the board after undergoing surgery? Who will take wildcard Aussie Dante Exum? MORE: Draft recap podcast | Crusade for Payne | Wiggins’ intensity| LaVine made for NBA? | Photos We’ll have the answers to all those questions shortly. This page will refresh as each pick (or trade) is announced, so stay tuned. Here are all the first-round picks in the 2014 NBA Draft....

Sporting News averaged out the rankings among four recruiting services in 247Sports, Rivals, ESPN and Scout to come up with a composite average — Georgia finished at No. 3, as Smart delivered Georgia a consensus top-five recruiting class for the first time since 2011. MORE: The top 20 recruiting classes since 2000 The “Dawgs” signed 26 blue-chip prospects, while the rest of the SEC East signed just 20. Smart and his staff did that by dominating the state of Georgia, reeling in 10 of 247Sports’ top 15 in-state prospects and 18 in-state players overall....

According to The Washington Times, Werth was allowed to serve his sentence on weekends in order to rehabilitate his right shoulder during the week. Werth was originally sentenced in December to 10 days in jail for driving his Porsche 105 mph on I-495 in Fairfax County last July, but the sentence was cut in half. The 35-year-old did not begin the jail time until Jan. 30. Werth, who has a ....

In a recent tweet posted by Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, the game developer expressed his approval of the movie adaptation’s new director. Druckmann revealed that he is a huge fan of Trachtenberg and is excited to see what the director plans to do for the movie adaptation. It seems that Sony has struck the right chord by appointing Trachtenberg as director, especially after the fact that Naughty Dog wasn’t always supportive of the direction the film took in the past....

The Midshipmen play Army on Dec. 12, with kickoff slated for 3:15 p.m. — less than five hours before the Heisman ceremony begins at 8 p.m. MORE: Who’s still in the 2015 Heisman race? | Championship week picks If the game finishes quickly enough, Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said Reynolds will get a helicopter ride to the Big Apple. “If we get him out of there by 7 o’clock and the game is over by 6:20 or 6:30, he should land in time,” Gladchuk said (via CBS Sports)....

In what has been the most engaging Rookie of the Year race in recent memory, this regular season campaign, we have seen the arrival of 3 players who are surefire studs in the near future. All 3 of them have a genuine case to be the winners this year, and unlike 2013 when none of Michael Carter-Williams, Trey Burke, and Victor Oladipo was seen as an impactful player for that season, these 3 players could give many All-Stars a genuine run for their money....

The most impressive part of any of his feats, however, is the ease at which he seems to carry them out. Further, on the court and in terms of sheer numbers he one-ups even Michael Jordan. James has made it his personal goal to bring the championship to whichever team he plays in. Whether it was the Miami Heat or the Cleveland Cavaliers, no goal was out of his reach....

What separates Embiid from the pack is his incredible footwork and ability to stretch the floor because he can handle the ball and shoot the 3 Point shot. However, there is one guy who is as great as Embiid but doesn’t get even half the attention he deserves - Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets. Jokic is anything but a traditional big man in the NBA. He can dish out unbelievable assists that would make an elite point guard look ordinary and his ability to shoot makes a threat from beyond the arc....

Now that The King has changed his team on multiple occasions, it is fair to evaluate the effect he has had on these franchises and his teammates. Let’s begin with the effect he has on his teams’ records. When he left the Cleveland Cavaliers for the first time in 2010, the team crumbled in his absence. The Cavs who were a 61 and 21 team dropped to 19 and 63....

Also read: Top 10 Rebounding Leaders in NBA History Well this year’s list has few traditional entries and a few surprises. Zach Randolph (Memphis Grizzlies) Zach Randolph The Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph combination has been the key offensively and off the glass for the Grizzlies in their longest post season yet, this year. Though Randolph ranks just 5th on the rebounding list, he tops the chart for the league in offensive rebounding averaging 4....

It was a back-and-forth game but the Pistons’ strong fourth quarter finish helped them get the win. The game saw as many as 11 lead changes as the two good defensive teams played their hearts out. The two teams will meet once again in April for the second and final time of the season, this time in Detroit. In this article, let us take a look at three of the talking points from the Detroit Pistons’ win over the Memphis Grizzlies....

The defending champions, Golden State Warriors are struggling for consistency this season. LeBron James changed teams and there is a great buzz surrounding the Los Angeles Lakers now in every game they play. The Houston Rockets have looked a shadow of a team that they were last season. Meanwhile, in the Eastern Conference, the Raptors are off to a great start. They have already swept the Warriors this season and look like the team that have the best chance to emerge out of the East....

The Boston Celtics’ perspective The Celtics find themselves at the third spot in the East and are finally starting to perform the way fans have expected them to perform at the beginning of the season. When Kyrie Irving missed games due to injury, Jaylen Brown took over and kept the momentum going. They are 9-1 in their last 10 games and are slowly moving up in the standings. After the game against the Cavaliers, they have a tough schedule coming up that include teams such as Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers and Milwaukee Bucks....