Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals begins tonight, and there isn’t a clear projected favorite. The Denver Nuggets have the two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and are the #1 seed, but the LA Lakers have Anthony Davis playing at the peak of his powers and some random forward named LeBron James. This lack of […]
Boston D Party On Thursday night, with their backs against the wall in arguably the biggest game of the Jayson Tatum/Jaylen Brown era to date, the Boston Celtics marched into Wells Fargo Center and gutted out a 95-86 victory against the Philadelphia 76ers to even the series 3-3. It set up the two best words […]
Everything is at stake right now in the NBA playoffs: pride, bragging rights, and a royal place in basketball history. How will we remember Kevin Durant, as the guy who ran to play with Steph Curry to win NBA titles but has never won one without him? What about Nikola Jokic? Sure he’s a two-time […]
As a Knicks fan, waiting for this team to win and win consistently has been a test of one’s patience. Championships have come too few and way too far in between. During the 1969-70 season, the Knicks would finish with a 60-22 record, four games better than second-place Milwaukee. They were led by the likes […]
Suns/Clips observations The Phoenix Suns-Los Angeles Clippers first-round matchup has been absolutely nothing short of cinematic. Without a doubt the most close-knit series thus far in the NBA Playoffs led by heavyweight superstars Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard. With the series drawing dead after Tuesday night’s 123-109 Suns’ Game 2 victory, we’re in for a […]
Listen, I know what you’re about to say. The teams in the West with good regular season records earned it, no excuses. And guess what? They did. None of their main guys got hurt, and they had an MVP-caliber talent to carry them through the nail-biting games of the season. But all that work doesn’t […]
The NBA Finals, East vs. West, is what many pay to see, though the real battle is in the East. For the last twenty years or so, the Western Conference Finals has often been hailed as the “real” finals, as the winner of this hard-fought, intense playoff series tends to win the NBA Championship (it’s […]
