NBA playoffs results and takeaways: Cavs on brink of elimination after losing Game 4 — and Donovan Mitchell
The Thunder tied their series with the Nuggets, while the Pacers blew out the Cavaliers in Game 4. Here are our takeaways from the action.
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Steph Curry is inching closer, but the clock is ticking on the Warriors’ season
Steph Curry went through a fairly strenuous workout on the team’s practice court before Saturday’s Game 3. Can the Warriors stay afloat?
Knicks had a chance to be on the right side of NBA history. Now they have questions
No team has ever blown a 3-0 lead, but New York won’t have that chance because it keeps falling behind. It has to be fixed.
Joe Mazzulla says Celtics can’t have too much pride to understand why they’re in 0-2 hole
“We had good intentions, we just didn’t execute,” says Celtics coach after falling behind in the series against Knicks.
Warriors’ Draymond Green says he’s sick of being made to ‘look like an angry Black man’
The four-time All-Star is now two technical fouls away from an automatic one-game suspension.
The Knicks, transformed by fight with Pistons, look steely against Celtics
A frustrating regular season team has given way to a new toughness, physically and mentally.
Mike Conley is leading the Timberwolves back to the defensive identity they need
Embarrassed in Game 1, Minnesota locked in on defense against the Steph Curry-less Warriors on Thursday, led by their veteran point guard.
Time for Celtics to sound the alarm, though it’s never over when it’s Boston-New York
If Celtics succumb to the Knicks, it will rival the Red Sox losing the ’86 Series to the Mets and Pats losing Super Bowl XLII to the Giants.
Warriors’ Pat Spencer shouldn’t be in this NBA spotlight. He never let that stop him
Pat Spencer was a college lacrosse star who had given up on basketball. Now he’s filling Steph Curry’s shoes in the NBA playoffs.
Celtics face identity crisis as Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown struggle to shoot again
The Celtics collapsed yet again, falling into an 0-2 hole and an identity crisis that will decide whether their title defense ends early.