Melissa Rohlin

1 day ago | foxsports.com | Melissa Rohlin

Jayson Tatum's pain was palpable. After lunging toward the ball with 2:58 left in Game 4 of the Boston Celtics' second-round playoff series against the New York Knicks on Monday, he collapsed onto the court. While lying on the hardwood at Madison Square Garden, he writhed 360-degrees. He grabbed at his right leg. He curled his head into his neck.

2 days ago | foxsports.com | Melissa Rohlin

Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison just got thrown a life raft fashioned from ping-pong balls. The Mavericks, who had a 1.8 percent chance of winning Monday's NBA Draft lottery, won the top pick in the 2025 draft and the sweepstakes for consensus top-pick Cooper Flagg with a combination of four ping-pong balls.

5 days ago | basketball.realgm.com | Melissa Rohlin

Despite falling into a 2-0 series deficit against the Pacers in the Eastern Conference semifinals, Donovan Mitchell remains confident in the Cleveland Cavaliers' ability to compete, according to an exclusive interview with FOX Sports. Mitchell, who joined Cleveland in 2022 after the Jazz traded him, has embraced his role with the Cavaliers despite initially hoping to land in his hometown of New York. "It's been one of the best seasons of my life," Mitchell told FOX Sports. "I'm glad I'm here.

1 week ago | foxsports.com | Melissa Rohlin

While in the middle of a slump in December and January, in which the Boston Celtics lost nearly as many games as they won, they urged patience. This was just the doldrums of a long season. The hangover of a championship. A blip. "I believe we'll peak at the right moment," Kristaps Porziņģis said Jan. 23 before the Celtics closed their season by winning 19 of their final 22 games, reassuring their doubters that they know how to turn it on when it counts.

1 week ago | foxsports.com | Melissa Rohlin

As Tyrese Haliburton stood on the free throw line in the second quarter of Game 2 of the Indiana Pacers' second-round playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday, fans at Rocket House taunted him by chanting "overrated," referring to the guard recently being voted the most overrated player in the league by his peers in a poll by The Athletic. Even Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell deemed that to be over-the-line, gesturing to his own fans to stop repeating that four-syllable word.