The Boston Celtics lost more than a first-round playoff series last week. They may have lost their final links to a storied past. The retirement of Larry Bird last summer left a void, but the events of the past two weeks have left the Celtics open to a major overhaul. Reggie Lewis collapsed with a heart arrhythmia that likely will end his career. Kevin McHale officially retired. Robert Parish may not return....
Ahead of this year’s All-Star festivities, which will take place at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, the league has released the final fan voting results. Which players emerged as the leading vote-getters in each conference? Who landed higher on the leaderboards than expected? You can check out the full results below ahead of the 2022 All-Star break. NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial)...
All voting for this year’s All-Star Game is through NBA.com or the NBA App, with fans accounting for 50 percent of the final vote for the All-Star Game. The remaining 50 percent of the vote comes from current players (25 percent) and a media panel (25 percent). Now that you know the voting structure and breakdown, let’s get into takeaways from the second All-Star fan vote returns. Vote now for the starters in the 2023 NBA All-Star Game!...
Kyle Kuzma and Brandon Ingram of the Lakers were in the Rising Stars game. For the Clippers, Lou Williams was in the Skills Challenge, and Tobias Harris was in the 3-Point Contest. That’s it. Never has an All-Star Game held in Los Angeles — there were five before this — been so light on LA presence, especially with a proud franchise like the Lakers here. In every Los Angeles All-Star Game before this one, there have been at least two Lakers, and in the 2011 game, Blake Griffin represented the Clippers....
Twenty-three of the league’s 30 franchises committed their arenas or practice facilities for voting-related activities for the 2020 presidential election, as the NBA, NBA Players Association and teams worked together with local election officials to convert facilities into voting locations. This gave voters a safe in-person voting option amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Of those, 18 were used as polling sites on Election Day and the Golden State Warriors, Detroit Pistons and Atlanta Hawks have told Newsweek they would consider doing so again in future elections....
For the first time since last June, LeBron James returns to San Antonio to face the team that defeated him and his former Heat squad in the 2014 NBA Finals. To add to the revenge quotient, the Cavaliers were beaten at home by the Spurs on Nov. 19, 92-90. James had one of his lowest-scoring games this season, putting up just 15 points on 6-for-17 shooting, as Kawhi Leonard continued to give him fits....
As long as they are waived by March 1, buyout candidates are eligible to compete in the postseason. These kinds of players typically only fill small roles — otherwise they would have been traded — but in some cases, buyouts can make a big difference over the course of a playoff run. POWER RANKINGS: Lakers keep tumbling down Think about guys like P.J. Brown on the 2008 Celtics or Chris Andersen on the 2013 Heat....
There is some great value on the NBA odds with this being the most wide open NBA championship race in the last six years. MORE: Get the latest NBA betting odds & advice at Sportsbook Review NBA championship odds 2020 For the full list of futures odds for all 30 teams, head over to Sportsbook Review. NBA PREDICTIONS 2019-20: SN’s Finals picks | Award winners Clippers +425 The Clippers are the favorite NBA pick to win the title....
When the season starts next week, there will be the league’s first head coach born and raised outside North America and the first Hispanic-American full-time head coach. And there’s a real chance that before long, someone like Becky Hammon could become the first woman to lead a NBA club. In a league where minorities make up the overwhelming majority of stars on the floor, there’s still a movement to make those same diverse strides in who is calling the shots on the sideline....
On Thursday night, Adam Silver, the Commissioner of the NBA will announce the first round draft picks for the new season at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. In what typically turns out to be a night when dreams become a reality, fans immerse themselves equally into the action, proclaiming their team’s draft picks to be ‘next biggest superstar’ in the NBA, generating enough mileage till the start of the league in October....
To me, it seemed like the media covering President Trump’s speech at that location last week focused on the crack, and not the monument. It was as if they couldn’t see past the flaw to see how a young nation’s workers overcame adversity and imperfection to achieve something beautiful and historic. It’s true that America at its Founding was flawed—it took nearly a century of work and a bloody Civil War to end the sin of slavery....
title: “Native Americans Want Their Place Names On Digital Maps” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-20” author: “Terry Rowland” Some companies are signing onto this idea of using Native American names on maps. The maps are intended to supplement and give context to digital maps like Google Maps and Apple Maps. Advocates say that the effort is long overdue as part of a larger reckoning about the appropriation of Native American terms, including those of sports teams....
The upcoming Uncharted title was actually inspired by parts from The Last Of Us; the latter of which will soon find its way to the PS4 this month due to popular demand. Joel and Ellie’s triumphant return will undoubtedly make plenty of Sony fans happy, but Naughty Dog came out and admitted that porting the game over from the PS3 ‘was hell’. Despite the difficulty of porting the series, imagining Nathan Drake’s initial trilogy powered by the PS4 is understandably exciting....
Madrid risk gifting Barca the title again Cristiano Ronaldo rescued Madrid with a late double, seeing the 10-man hosts play out a 3-3 draw at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday. Navas, who has regularly been linked with a move away, was at fault for the visitors’ third. The Costa Rica international was beaten to a pass by Kevin-Prince Boateng, who placed a finish into an open goal. “I am calm....
The popularity of the video game Among Us has spiked in a huge way since its release over two years ago, so the Navy decided to stream it over on its Twitch channel. As a social deduction game, Among Us requires players to create tags that display what they want to be called in-game. That way, they can identify, clear, and accuse each other whenever a murder happens. RELATED: US Army Abandons Twitch Plans After Multiple Controversies...
At the beginning of the season, the Dallas Mavericks sophomore was a 70/1 outsider to be named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player in the regular season, with the Baltimore Ravens quarterback a 40/1 to win the corresponding award in the NFL. Combined in a parlay—a single bet that links together two or more individual wagers—those two bets worked out to combined odds of 2,800/1. In other words, a $10 bet placed on the parlay on September 1 could return $28,000....
Since 1983, this award has recognized the best players in the league coming off the bench and has honored the likes Manu Ginobili, Harden and Eric Gordon in recent years. This season has seen several players putting up great numbers coming in as a substitute and have made a significant difference to their teams. So let’s take a look at some of the players who are in with a shout to become the ‘Sixth Man’ this year....
The Boston Celtics defeated the Indiana Pacers at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in front of 17,371 fans. Celtics improved their overall record to 48-32 and moved up to the fourth position while the Pacers sit on the fifth position of the Eastern Conference standings. The Celtics are building momentum going into the playoffs and have won five of their past six games. Indiana was on a two-game winning streak before the game....
The Raptors have been rocked in the playoffs the last three years by LeBron and the Cleveland Cavaliers. The 2016 Eastern Conference Finals saw the Raptors and Cavaliers go to six games, but all four victories by the Cavaliers were by a margin of 19 or more. Compound the 2016 loss to sweeps in 2017 and 2018, and LeBron currently holds a 10-game win streak over the Raptors in the playoffs....
Some rookies learn quicker than others. As the new season progresses, it is always intriguing to see how the new rookie class fits in. In 2018, the top five draft picks were, Deandre Ayton, Marvin Bagley III, Luka Doncic, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Trae Young. That was the Draft order. As of today , the battle for Rookie of the Year is a scrutiny of the stats and impact these young men have had, in the NBA, so far from the 2018 draft....
