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We're ranking the 50 greatest playoff series of the post-merger era.

We're ranking the 50 greatest playoff runs of the post-merger era.

We're ranking the 50 greatest playoff series of the post-merger era.

25. SACRAMENTO KINGS: 39.82 POINTS PER SEASON (1948-2009) Wins: 2,275 Playoff wins: 77 Series wins: 16 Titles: 1 All-Stars: 73 Best player: Oscar Robertson Best coach: Rick Adelman Best team: 2001-02 (61-21, lost conf. finals) Intan...

1. LOS ANGELES LAKERS: 78.71 POINTS PER SEASON (1947-2009) Wins: 2,970 Playoff wins: 397 Series wins: 102 Titles: 15 All-Stars: 125 Best player: Magic Johnson Best coach: Phil Jackson Best team: 1971-72 (69-13, won NBA title) Inta...

Where do the Charlotte Bobcats rank among NBA franchises? John Hollinger explores.

In the past couple days I've rated both the best perimeter prospects and the best frontcourt prospects coming out of college. That leaves out one important participant in Thursday's draft festivities: Italian forward Danilo Gallinari. Fortunately, ...

BOSTON -- OK, this is getting a little freaky. In 2005, ESPN.com sent me to Miami for the first day of training camp. The Heat had just made a huge offseason trade to get Antoine Walker and Jason Williams, came into media singing "Kumbaya" against t...

LOS ANGELES -- With all the hype over the Lakers-Celtics re-enacting their great rivalries of the '60s and '80s, it surprising that nobody has pointed out yet how similar this series is to the last time to these two teams met in the Finals, in 1987. ...

The Suns wanted a coach who would preach more defense and hold the stars more accountable. Is Terry Porter the guy? Obviously, Steve Kerr thinks so, and certainly it's great to see Porter get a plum job after his bizarre, two-months-after-the-season...

SOMEWHERE IN THE AIRSPACE BETWEEN NEW ORLEANS AND ATLANTA -- With the flight gods blowing up my usual chat schedule, I thought I'd address a couple topics that have come up repeatedly in my mailbag and, presumably, would in the chat as well. For sta...

The latest headlines make me wonder if David Stern is intent on cementing the internationals' progress. Recently he floated the idea of increasing the league's age minimum to 20, effectively requiring players to wait two seasons after their high scho...

John Hollinger's team previews.

I think I'm about to break the record for "fastest abandomment of a prediction." On Wednesday, I picked the Charlotte Bobcats to take the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference. On Friday, projected starting power forward Sean May announced he'd mis...