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5 days ago | 
au.sports.yahoo.com | Morten Stig JensenNba |Morten Stig Jensen
The NBA Draft Lottery is Monday night, meaning some lucky team will find itself with a promising start, and in some cases a clean slate — oh, there's a difference — if it gets its hands on Duke forward Cooper Flagg, this year's sure-fire No. 1 pick. Flagg, who is 6-foot-9 and a two-way force at power forward who reminds many of Mavericks star Anthony Davis, is not only supremely athletic but has a floor game that should flourish with the more spaced-out NBA game.
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1 week ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Morten Stig JensenNba |Morten Stig Jensen
While some may view Saturday's first-round series elimination to the Denver Nuggets as a failure for the Los Angeles Clippers, it was anything but. Before the start of the season in October, the public was predominantly out on the Clippers, believing the loss of Paul George, the further decline of James Harden and the uncertainty of Kawhi Leonard would leave the team outside of the postseason — play-in included.
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2 weeks ago | 
au.sports.yahoo.com | Morten Stig JensenNba |Morten Stig Jensen
The Detroit Pistons were eliminated from the playoffs Thursday by the New York Knicks, but that almost doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. For a team that won just 14 games last year to earn the sixth seed and avoid the play-in tournament, an early playoff loss in no way defines this season, as postseason success was never the point this year.
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2 weeks ago | 
au.sports.yahoo.com | Morten Stig JensenNba |Morten Stig Jensen
There are players who spend years — decades even — preparing to win an NBA championship. Some never get there, but even for the ones that do, there is life afterward. The grind continues, and the goal remains the same, year after year. No one knows that as well as Giannis Antetokounmpo, who won a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2021 and has since been fruitless in his endeavors of winning another one.
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2 weeks ago | 
au.sports.yahoo.com | Morten Stig JensenNba |Morten Stig Jensen
After a series that went pretty much as expected — OK, it did get out of hand at the end — the Miami Heat's season is over at the hands of the much better, more efficient and more appealing Cleveland Cavaliers. In fairness, this team never stood a chance. Not really.
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2 weeks ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Morten Stig JensenNba |Morten Stig Jensen
Heat offseason outlook: Miami needs more than culture to get out of basketball purgatoryAfter a series that went pretty much as expected — OK, it did get out of hand at the end — the Miami Heat's season is over at the hands of the much better, more efficient and more appealing Cleveland Cavaliers. In fairness, this team never stood a chance. Not really.
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2 weeks ago | 
au.sports.yahoo.com | Morten Stig JensenNba |Morten Stig Jensen
With the Memphis Grizzlies' season ending on a sour note in the first round against the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder, there are major questions as they head into the summer. The current iteration of the team's core, featuring Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr., should very much be under scrutiny, even if the team itself might prefer to give it another go. Let's start with Morant, as he presents the most difficult piece but not for the reasons you may necessarily think.
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3 weeks ago | 
au.sports.yahoo.com | Morten Stig JensenNba |Morten Stig Jensen
The first two days of the NBA playoffs are in the books. So naturally, human nature dictates we're all ready to make sweeping conclusions to the point where we don't even have to finish the rest of the postseason, right? As you can probably guess, it's time to look at some initial overreactions based on the postseason's opening weekend. Oh, boy. That was unexpected. At home, with Luka Dončić in his playoff debut for the Lakers, and the Showtime crew dropped the ball.
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4 weeks ago | 
au.sports.yahoo.com | Morten Stig JensenNba |Morten Stig Jensen
Remember last season, when the Dallas Mavericks made the NBA Finals, led by top-5 superstar Luka Dončić? Yeah, Mavericks fans might need to cling to that for a while, because things are about to get ugly. The Nico Harrison-led organization lost to the Memphis Grizzlies in Friday night's play-in game, meaning their season is now officially over, and not unofficially over as it had been since Feb. 2.
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1 month ago | 
au.sports.yahoo.com | Morten Stig JensenNba |Morten Stig Jensen
The Chicago Bulls' season predictably ended Wednesday night in the play-in, where the Miami Heat kicked the Bulls in the teeth, and that's all she wrote on a season that proved consistently inconsistent, with no sign of an organizational path forward. The team did trade former All-Star Zach LaVine at the deadline, deciding to empower offseason acquisition Josh Giddey and the already-established Coby White.
