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Is time up for the Chicago Bulls and Oklahoma City Thunder this season? Our panel plays a little knockout heading into Wednesday night's elimination Game 5s. Read 5-on-5 here....

Our panel plays a little knockout heading into elimination games for the Bulls and Thunder.

Ray Allen scored 21 points, LeBron James had 19 and the Miami Heat embarrassed the Chicago Bulls with a 115-78 victory in Game 2 of the teams' Eastern Conference semifinal series on Wednesday night.

Dwyane Wade scored 21 points, LeBron James finished with 19, and the Miami Heat took off in the fourth quarter to pull away and beat the Milwaukee Bucks 98-86 in Game 2 of the teams' Eastern Conference first-round series Tuesday night.

Paul Millsap scored 20 points, Enes Kanter had 18 in his first career start and the Utah Jazz hit 13 3-pointers to rout the Toronto Raptors 131-99 on Friday night.

Josh Smith had 23 points and 15 rebounds, Al Horford also posted a double-double and the Atlanta Hawks beat Washington 104-95 on Friday night to keep the Wizards winless on the road.

Andre Miller scored eight of his 15 points during a late 10-0 spurt, sending the Denver Nuggets to a 92-89 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.

Welcome to the knockout phase of the Olympic basketball event. The NBA game affords teams a two-week chess match in each playoff round, during which a team can slip up, adjust, then eventually figure it out. That's not the case in London, where o...

Brian Babineau/NBAE/Getty ImagesAvery Bradley can't wait until he's back on the court playing basketball again.MONSON, Mass. -- Even just watching some neighborhood kids play a game of knockout, you can't help but notice that Celtics shooting guard A...

Monday was the final round of group play, with eight teams advancing to the knockout phase. There were a fair number of virtuoso performances, spirited underdogs and some individual surprises, but those who have excelled at Olympics past, by and larg...

Kevin Durant scored 27 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder are on the brink of the NBA Finals, beating the San Antonio Spurs 108-103 in Game 5 on Monday night and moving within a victory of a series knockout.

CHICAGO -- Philadelphia 76ers coach Doug Collins said it is important for his team to focus on closing out the Chicago Bulls in their first-round series on Tuesday. The No. 8-seed 76ers, who haven't won a playoff series since 2003, lead the top-se...

How it happened: The Dallas Mavericks never trailed against the Portland Trail Blazers. It still wasn't pretty in Portland. The Mavs didn't exactly throw a knockout punch against a poor team playing without All-Star power forward LaMarcus Aldridge...

MIAMI -- Derrick Rose is fine. He's finer than a physics-defying South Beach knockout. Finer than Joakim Noah, who will be writing a check to the NBA, thanks to one angry word. Rose is finer than the few remaining hairs on his coach Tom Thib...

Derrick Rose hasn't been his MVP self late in games against the Heat.

Marcus Thornton scored 21 points and made several big shots late to lead the Sacramento Kings to a 104-103 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Sunday night.