LeBron said despite all of the attention paid to the Big Three, it's another member of the Heat who has keyed the team's performance against Oklahoma City. "We didn't have many perimeter shots that fell for us last night," LeBron said. "Shane is our key guy right now, our only guy...
But they're 0-4 this season in games in which they trail by 14 or more points. 5. Baltimore Ravens The myth: The Ravens are the most dangerous team in the AFC playoff field. Baltimore looks fantastic right now. It has won five games in a row, aver...
Eleven days earlier, and some 1,500 miles to the west, Chris Paul's final Clippers playoff game was like so many others: disheartening. He had been superb throughout the first-round series with Utah, bearing the workload at a near-historic clip after Blake Griffin had been fell...
and many of the sport’s biggest stars have been enthusiastic about accumulating them. Traditionally, it’s been about putting up points. Scoring is what gets attention, and ultimately, racking up more points than the other team is how you win games....
Postseason performances seemed like a distant dream more than five years ago, when McKinnie - after going undrafted out of Wisconsin-Green Bay - signed a contract with the East Side Pirates in Luxemburg's second division. While he found success on the court, averaging 26 poi...
Pay attention to the crowd and the Cleveland Cavaliers’ bench when Kyrie Irving is about to dribble. Irving’s bag of tricks includes quick crossovers, hesitatio…
Mathematically, plus-minus is not that hard to define: It reflects how many points a player contributes to his team’s scoring margin per 100 possessions, relative to an average player.14 Wall, for instance, had a plus-minus rating of +3.9 for the Wizards last year. That means with Wall...
and Wiggins, "force" and "aggressive" were the two buzzwords of the day, and for good reason. Now, it's up to many more Warriors to hold true to their words and bring force and aggressiveness in Game 2 from slashing, cutting, driving, second-chance points and whatever else...
“I think some Chinese are a little disappointed,” says Yang Yi, a correspondent for the Beijing Youth Daily, who is traveling with the Rockets. “You see here [noting the game notes before the Rockets play the Suns on Friday], Yao Ming is averaging 3.3 points and 3.7 rebounds. But I...
He was still productive in his only season in L.A., averaging 17.1 points with 12.4 rebounds, and more so the following year in Houston, where he signed as a free agent in the summer of 2013. But the NBA was changing, asking its big men to play in space, and Howard remained stuck...