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[ad_1] The Sacramento Kings dominated the Los Angeles Lakers en route to a comfortable 120-107 win in northern California on Thursday AEDT. The Lakers’ Austin Reaves reeled off seven three-pointers to finish with a game-high 28 points but Los Angeles were unable to staunch the flow of Sacramento scoring. All five Kings starters finished in … Read more
[ad_1] Nikola Jokic bagged his 20th triple-double of the season as the Denver Nuggets held off the Boston Celtics 115-109 in their heavyweight NBA showdown, while Dante Exum starred in a comeback win for the Mavericks. The eagerly anticipated clash between the reigning NBA champions and Eastern Conference-leading Celtics lived up to the billing in … Read more
[ad_1] The Cleveland Cavaliers overturned a 22-point fourth-quarter deficit to snap the Boston Celtics’ 11-game winning streak with a 105-104 victory on Tuesday. A week after coming back from 10 points down in the fourth quarter to defeat Dallas, Cleveland conjured another remarkable late show to stun Eastern Conference leaders Boston. Boston looked to be … Read more
[ad_1] The NBA playoffs are just over a month away and while the Boston Celtics are clear frontrunners in the East, there is a three-way tussle for supremacy over in the West. Here foxsports.com.au breaks down where every NBA team finds itself ahead of the run home, placing them into four tiers — contenders, dark … Read more
[ad_1] Look out, Denver Nuggets. If it wasn’t obvious enough already, the Boston Celtics are the biggest threats to the reigning champions going back-to-back this season. And while the Nuggets, who have won six games since the All-Star break, deserve plenty of respect as defending champions it’s not hard to see why Boston is favoured … Read more
[ad_1] The Nets came into Saturday (all times US) wondering how to get Ben Simmons playing well alongside another non-shooter. Now they’re just wondering how to keep him playing at all. The oft-injured Simmons, the only All-Star on Brooklyn’s roster, went down again. This time he got forced out of their 101-86 loss to Minnesota … Read more
[ad_1] The All-Star Game is back and for the first time in five years, the NBA returns to the standard East vs. West battle with a traditional scoring system and four 12-minute quarters. The NBA had previously introduced the ‘Elam Ending’ in the 2020 All-Star Game, which set a target score at the start of … Read more
[ad_1] The plague of referees getting upset and ruining NBA games has continued with Devin Booker ejected early in Phoenix’s 116-100 win over Detroit. Booker received two quick technical fouls causing him to play just 5:24 of the match. The first was for arguing with officials over a foul call, but the second appeared to … Read more
[ad_1] The Celtics held off a fast-finishing Brooklyn Nets team 118-110 on the back of 41 points from Jayson Tatum as Boston limited Ben Simmons’ impact. While Simmons had a few classy touches early Boston did well to take away opportunities for Brooklyn to operate its offence in transition, forcing the Australian to play in … Read more
[ad_1] LeBron James, Stephen Curry and reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Joel Embiid were named among a 41-strong player pool for the USA’s 2024 Olympics basketball roster this week. The star-studded roster will be whittled down to a 12-man squad for this summer’s Olympics in Paris, where the US will be chasing a fifth consecutive … Read more