Shaun Powell

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Play NBA Pick’Em Bracket ChallengeDownload the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageOne round of these NBA playoffs is in the books and ready for the basketball scholars to study, decipher, and discover: Just what did we see? A pair of seven-game series was the suspense the NBA wanted and needed. Big moments and big shots delivered. A few sorrowful so-longs to players with Hall of Fame credentials.

1 week ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

• Download the NBA AppFor only the second time since winning the 2022 NBA championship, the Warriors have advanced to the Western Conference semifinals. While many teams would crave that sort of “dry spell,” for the Warriors in the Stephen Curry era, this seems like a victory. That’s because the Warriors as currently constructed are Curry’s best — and maybe last — chance of at least reaching the conference finals.

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Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageSo much has changed since they last blew a 3-1 series lead. Stephen Curry had two children then; he now has four. Draymond Green had a clean-shaven face then; his beard is now flecked with gray. The signs of maturity and aging are so apparent with these two Golden State legends, the last remaining symbols of a bygone championship dynasty.

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Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageYoung team, on the road, facing elimination, going against an opponent with plenty of big-game postseason experience … what could go wrong? Well, not much, actually, for the Houston Rockets. They were the steadier, smarter, tougher and quite simply the better team. This was especially — and shockingly — true down the stretch of Game 6 at Chase Center.

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Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageLOS ANGELES — Executing a midseason trade that shook up the league and caused a major reinvention to two franchises, that was easy. Now comes the tricky part for the Lakers: Making themselves a championship contender with Luka Dončić — and perhaps also with LeBron James, who’s on the clock with midnight approaching.