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Do the Pacers have a shot to unseat the Heat? It won't be easy, that's for sure.

When the Warriors lost David Lee to what the team assumed was a season-ending injury in the team's first playoff game, I was skeptical that Golden State would be able to reconstruct its offense on the fly against an opponent devoting nearly 100 perce...

Rarely have so many non-involved NBA people watched a playoff game out of sheer curiosity as was the case Saturday night, when the NBA world tuned in to see how the Thunder would function without Russell Westbrook. Things went well in many basic sens...

The first thought is one of genuine sadness, just as it has been with Derrick Rose, Danilo Gallinari, David Lee, Andrew Bynum, Rajon Rondo, Danny Granger, Kobe Bryant, and every other important player on a playoff team who has suffered a season-endin...

1. JaVale McGee and Anthony Randolph, Together Injuries to Danilo Gallinari and Kenneth Faried have George Karl understandably scrambling for healthy rotation parts, but I'm not sure the world is ready to watch the Wild Child front line play heavy...

They say that necessity is the mother of invention. That might as well be the motto for the Carmelo Anthony–era New York Knicks. Over the past two seasons, the team has been forced to adjust to a seemingly endless string of injuries. Amid the c...

Athletes are mostly boring. We wish this wasn't true. After all, the athlete lives an exceptional life and it stands to reason that exceptional lives require exceptional people. This underlying assumption has launched a thousand profiles written by a...

Predicting the impact of Danilo Gallinari's season-ending knee injury on Denver's playoff hopes is one of the trickiest bits of analysis the NBA's roulette wheel of injury luck has given us this season. The Nuggets might be one of the league's deepes...

After a crazy night of NBA injuries, wild finishes, and resounding wins, a smorgasbord of random thoughts that don't merit their own posts: • The Lakers' defense has been a disaster over the last 20 games whenever Dwight Howard sits, mostly b...

The Thunder are still two and a half games behind the Spurs in the standings, but they're favorites to make the Finals again, regardless of whether Tony Parker's injury allows them to slide into the no. 1 spot — where there's about a 50-50 chan...

It has been a rough year for Kevin Love and the Timberwolves in basketball terms. Love broke his right hand twice, first doing knuckle push-ups, and then during a game shortly after returning. Love wasn't himself in those 18 games, shooting just 35 p...

Rajon Rondo is testing the bedrock of the Sports Guy's theories; now it's time for an update of the original.

Millions watched Shaun Livingston suffer one of the most gruesome injuries in NBA history — but the once-touted point guard is still in the league, and he isn't ready to give up yet.

In case you were out brainstorming baby names with Shakira and Gerard Pique last night, here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday. American teenager Sloane Stephens upset Serena Williams at the Australian Open in an exhilarating, injury-plague...

People realize this is happening, right? That the Cavaliers have a real chance of finishing with the league's worst record this season, after finishing with the second-worst record in Year 1 of the Post-LeBron Era and the third-worst record in Year 2...

The NBA's five-man squads that crush. Plus: DeAndre Jordan's self-alley-oops, Kevin Love's injury, and the disappearance of Marvin Williams.