Joe Wolfond

4 days ago | thescore.com | Joe Wolfond

After completing one of the most interesting trades in recent NBA history on the eve of training camp, it's fitting that the New York Knicks and Minnesota Timberwolves saw their seasons end at the same stage of the playoffs. And the fact both teams reached the finals of their respective conferences makes the deal feel like a win-win, at least in the short term.

1 week ago | thescore.com | Joe Wolfond

When the sting of another lopsided conference finals loss subsides, Minnesota Timberwolves fans will hopefully be left with the same perspective on their team's latest playoff run that their franchise player had already adopted by the time the buzzer sounded on Wednesday's Game 5 Oklahoma City Thunder rout. "It's exciting for me," Anthony Edwards told reporters from the dais, shortly after Minnesota's season ended the same way it did a year ago. "I'm 23.

1 week ago | thescore.com | Joe Wolfond

In an Eastern Conference final that's been wildly unpredictable from game to game, quarter to quarter, and minute to minute, the one surety is that the Indiana Pacers will find ways to poke and prod at Jalen Brunson's defense whenever the New York Knicks' diminutive point guard is on the floor. It's a big part of the reason the Pacers are up 3-1 in the series, one win away from their first Finals appearance in 25 years.

2 weeks ago | thescore.com | Joe Wolfond

Midway through the fourth quarter, down 17 points, fumbling their way through a number of mental miscues and seemingly running out of gas, there was nothing to indicate that the Indiana Pacers were going to win Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals in Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night. Nothing, except for the fact that they're the Pacers, and we'd already seen them steal games in historically improbable fashion from the Bucks and Cavaliers in the playoffs' first two rounds.

3 weeks ago | thescore.com | Joe Wolfond

The Denver Nuggets' win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6 on Thursday pushed the second round's best series the distance. Game 7 in OKC on Sunday will be the biggest game of the postseason so far and the biggest test yet for this exceptional young Thunder core. Here are five questions whose answers will determine how the momentous contest shakes out. The Nuggets' biggest advantage in this win-or-go-home contest is that they have the best player - in this or any matchup - in Nikola Jokic.