
Shaun Powell
Reporter at NBA.com
Part-time golfer, full-time sportswriter, lifetime dad. Find me at https://t.co/uVXQDmBkRt. Still searching for the perfect story to tell. Author of Souled Out.
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1 week ago |
nba.com | Shaun Powell
Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageOKLAHOMA CITY — There was an aggressive double-team on the ball, a steal and subsequently a dunk. Then a blocked shot, which turned into a pair of passes and a jumper in transition. And this was before the energy was elevated — more defense, more shots made followed. This was the sign of a desperate team.
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1 week ago |
nba.com | Shaun Powell
OKLAHOMA CITY — When the Western Conference Finals are over and players from the Thunder and Wolves are wishing each other well, no hug will be more meaningful than the two who share the same blood and hyphenated name: Alexander. What they whisper in each other’s ears before walking off the court won’t be captured by intrusive microphones nor deciphered by lip-readers watching at home. It will almost be their own language, meant only for each other. As it should be.
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1 week ago |
nba.com | Shaun Powell
MINNEAPOLIS — The league’s top-rated defense confronted the league’s most diverse offensive player for seven playoff games and survived. That’s why the Thunder are in the Western Conference Finals and Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets are not. This is now a different playoff round for OKC and against a different individual threat, but is the challenge of reducing Anthony Edwards’s production altogether different? In some ways, yes. In some ways, not really.
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1 week ago |
nba.com | Shaun Powell
Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageMINNEAPOLIS — What does a 42-point beatdown do for the team that issued the punishment? To the team that was left bloodied? To the state of the Western Conference Finals which has folks flummoxed over the latest result? All good questions, and all will be answered in due time.
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1 week ago |
nba.com | Shaun Powell
Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageMINNEAPOLIS — The Thunder spent the last seven months setting standards, breaking records, winning 68 games, breezing through the first round of the playoffs and coming up clutch in the second. They’re also shattered something else: The long-held NBA belief that a bench doesn’t matter much in the playoffs.
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But, analytics.

All that size and Boston shoots 60 3’s. And makes 15. That is the definition of brutal.

Analytics geeks don't want to hear this, but one reason Jalen Brunson is so clutch is his mid-range. He knows that spot is open.

Celtics and Cavaliers, the top two seeds in the East, are off to a fine start in the semifinals.