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Darnell Mayberry of The Oklahoman: Kevin Durant is showing us how special he is. It was one thing to average 35, nine and six and shoot 51 percent in four games without Russell Westbrookagainst a who-cares-about-defense team like the Houston Rockets....

Rusty Simmons of the San Francisco Chronicle: David Lee provided the inspiration, and Stephen Curry provided the much-needed separation. The sixth-seeded Warriors followed the two players who have led them all season and turned Oracle Arena into a pl...

Jeff Schultz of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The new tough-minded, cool and resilient, ain't-no-call-in-the-world-gonna-cause-us-to-trigger-another-nuclear-meltdown Hawks returned to action Wednesday night. And they stuck around - for about a qu...

Mark Kiszla of The Denver Post: One cheap shot can change everything. The mojo in this NBA playoff series turned decidedly back in the favor of the Nuggets when Golden State center Andrew Bogut turned into a coward and went for the throat of Kenneth ...

Mark Bradley of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The notion struck midway through another second quarter in which the Atlanta Hawks were extracting, without Novocain and with great force, the "d" from Indiana. "The Pacers can't guard the Hawks," dec...

Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News: When Stephen Curry is officially anointed the greatest shooter of all time, they will talk about this game, and they won't have to say much else. When and if the Warriors finish off Denver in this series, th...

Mike Monroe of the San Antonio Express-News: Tim Duncan's sixth-place finish in the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year voting sparked debate in the Spurs' locker room about the difficulty media members face in choosing a winner for that award. Duncan...

Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News: OK, now it's time to prepare your ears for Game 3 at Oracle Arena on Friday night. But first, before I wade through all the incredible performances in the Warriors' 131-117 Game 2 victory in Denver, I've got...

Greg Cote of The Miami Herald: Is this where Heat fans were supposed to modestly feign concern because their team's playoff run began Sunday night with a victory that was somewhat close for a little while? Do we now pretend this might be a competitiv...

Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times: Yay? One of the most hyped teams in NBA history fell exhaustedly into the playoffs Wednesday. Appropriately, it happened with only three hours left in the season. Fittingly, it was clinched when they were just ...

Ethan J. Skolnick of the Palm Beach Post: So is this his best season? "I don't know," LeBron James said. "I've had some really good individual seasons. I think, as far as efficiency, yeah. I don't know if they've got all the numbers settled yet, but ...

Al Iannazzone of Newsday: The scoreboard above the Garden floor read "Atlantic Division Champions" and blue T-shirts hung in each player's locker with "Can't Stop NY Knicks 2013 Division Champions" on it. The Knicks buried the Wizards Tuesday night, ...

John Canzano of The Oregonian: When that awful video footage went public, showing the Rutgers men's basketball coach throwing balls at his players in practice, verbally abusing them, shoving them and assaulting them with gay slurs, I did the oddest t...

Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News: In the aftermath of another heartbreaker, there was nothing more the Spurs could do but make the best of it. Monday's 92-90 loss to Memphis essentially ended with a Mike Conley layup with 0.6 seconds lef...

Charles F. Gardner of the Journal Sentinel: It was time for the Milwaukee Bucks to make a stand. Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard were in town Thursday night for the Los Angeles Lakers' annual visit, but it didn't matter. The Bucks knew that ...

Ethan J. Skolnick of the Palm Beach Post: Perhaps it is possible to have more fun playing basketball than the Heat have had lately. Perhaps other professional teams, the Harlem Globetrotters not included, have turned the court into their personal pla...