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You know how at the beginning of every NFL season, everyone is 0-0 and has a chance at the Super Bowl? That is not true in the NBA. For fans of five to 10 teams every year, the NBA draft lottery is the Super Bowl. No other sport decides its future...

I was one of eight or 10 media members who got to watch the lottery last night from inside the television studio where the NBA draft order is filmed. It's not quite as cool as being in the secret locked-down room where the lottery actually happens, b...

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...

This year, like every year, I found myself thinking about the NCAA tournament during the first round of the NBA playoffs. It's no secret that I love March Madness so much that I use the event as a bookmark for other memories in my life. (For exam...

Coaching news has rudely interrupted the endless stream of first-round playoff games, as both Charlotte and Cleveland came to major decisions about their head-coaching positions on Tuesday. The Bobcats' semi-surprising decision to fire Mike Dunlap wi...

The NBA playoffs are upon us, with 16 teams competing for the Larry O'Brien Trophy. But what about the other guys? What about the teams we wish were in the playoffs? We may know, in our heads, that they didn't do enough to get into the postseason, bu...

In case you were busy living on easy street ... wait — OH, I FORGOT ABOUT MY TAXES — here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday: The Boston Red Sox rode a seven-run second inning to cruise to a 7-2 win over the host Cleveland Ind...

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...

If you missed yesterday's romp through the Western Conference, then consider this link your message via raven. Eastern Conference Indiana Pacers Steve McPherson: Aha! This is where the Greyjoys come back. Sure, the Iron Islands' main industr...

To read the Essos (Eastern) Conference translator, click here. Steve McPherson: As darkness sweeps the land, a lone figure works by dim light, trying to write one of those intros where it seems like he's talking about Game of Thrones but then he's...

Dear Kobe Bryant, In the middle of a playoff chase that has you clinging tenaciously to the no. 8 seed and yapping about how you have to take more control of the team's defensive strategy, why are you doing this? In the 71st game of your 17...

When David Stern's magnanimous grin flashed across an LED jumbotron in metro Manila Monday afternoon to announce that "the NBA will play its first preseason game in the Philippines this October," a pulse of enthusiasm shot through Filipino communitie...

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...

Among the nerds at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston.

I love college basketball. I love it the way a mother loves her evil little spawn, the one that everyone else in the neighborhood is pretty sure will end up in prison by age 20. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool supporter, and I'll probably never change. I don'...

So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here to help you keep track of it all. You'll find takes on moments you might've missed from the previous night, along with ones you will remember forever. Garden Delight (All .GIFs by...