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Stephen Dunn/NBAE/Getty ImagesThe Lakers and Rockets played one of Wednesday night's few meaningful games. LOS ANGELES -- Give the Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets their due, the two teams played a frenetic, de facto playoff game. The Rockets ...

5-on-5 roundtable: Our experts pick the opening round of the Western Conference playoffs.

NBAE/Getty ImagesJust as their teams were hitting their strides, Marc Gasol and Ty Lawson went down.For a while, the Memphis Grizzlies were the Western Conference's most intriguing story. During the height of the season, they dealt their most prolifi...

Russell Westbrook | Thabo Sefolosha | Kevin Durant | Serge Ibaka | Kendrick Perkins Minutes Played: 1,024 Offensive Rating: 110.1 points per 100 possessions Defensive Rating: 96.6 points per 100 possessions How it works offensively At some poi...

The Spurs came back from 24-point deficit with pick-and-roll precision.

San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker sat out Friday night's game against the Los Angeles Clippers with a strain of the right quadricep.

Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images In case you haven't noticed, the Spurs haven't lost a game since Jan. 29. The least profitable death pool in history might be the one that aims to predict the demise of the San Antonio Spurs. It's been a decade...

NBA fandom usually begins with the love of a team. My love of the NBA, for instance, springs directly from a childhood spent listening to Blazer games on my Walkman. But ... don't you have a backup team? A team you kind of keep an eye on? It'...

Chicago's Derrick Rose and Memphis' O.J. Mayo aren't the only rookie guards enjoying stellar seasons, writes Kevin Arnovitz.