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The San Antonio Spurs didn't start strong, but they had plenty left at the finish. Now they are in position to finish the Memphis Grizzlies and advance to the NBA Finals with one more win. Let's take a look at some of the statistical highlights fr...

The Indiana Pacers were able to finish the job against the Miami Heat this time, knotting their Eastern Conference finals series at a game apiece. It was a contest that appeared to be headed toward an ending similar to that of Game 1. But this tim...

Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE/Getty Images Shane Battier does what it takes to win. Sometimes what it takes is ugly. Hard intentional fouls have been a focus of TrueHoop's Working Bodies series all season. Our position: They make the game more danger...

The conference finals are upon us, and David Thorpe's weekly rankings of postseason MVPs continue. Last time we talked, Marc Gasol was on top, but there's a new sheriff in town. ...

Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images The rarest of sights: LeBron James attacking Roy Hibbert at the rim. After hitting the overtime buzzer-beating layup in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, LeBron James insisted he barely noticed wheth...

Bob Kravitz of The Indianapolis Star: Suddenly, Frank Vogel is a household name. A week ago, anybody outside of Indianapolis or the circle of NBA cognoscenti had no idea who the Indiana Pacers' low-key coach was, what he looked like, what he stood fo...

The Heat squeak through Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Pacers thanks to weird tactical stuff including the crunch time benching of Roy Hibbert. ESPN's Tom Haberstroh and Israel Gutierrez discuss the lessons of the opener, and nam...

Mornings like these make the NBA so much fun, especially when the debate touches on concrete strategy rather than abstractions. On the surface, whether Pacers coach Frank Vogel should have left Roy Hibbert on the floor during crucial, late-game de...

Every now and again, for fun, we ask regular guest David Thorpe a Seinfeld trivia question. Grantland writer Zach Lowe has straight up talked trash about the level of difficulty. So we invited him on for our first-ever all-Seinfeld episode....

He's the Indiana University professor who got young Mark Cuban interested in advanced analytics, a pioneer of adjusted plus/minus, and a man who says some coaching moves in these playoffs have been flat wrong....

Mike Wells of The Indianapolis Star: So you think Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel had a difficult time getting over taking Roy Hibbert out in the third quarter of Game 2 against the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference semifinals? What he did i...

Steve Mitchell/USA TODAY SportsLeBron James made a buzzer-beater with no time remaining to defeat the Pacers in Game 1.What can't LeBron James do? Score 30 points? Check. Triple-double? No problem. Game winner at the buzzer? Sure. LeBron ...

No, the Grizzlies didn't figure the Spurs out late in Game 2. The Spurs just made a series of mistakes they're unlikely to repeat. Ethan Sherwood Strauss and Graydon Gordian break it down....

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Once in a while a measurement can change everything. For instance, if you were born since the middle of the last century, the beginning of your life was changed by a metric. he most essential and timeless human act (or, at least one of them) chang...

Issac Baldizon/NBAE/Getty Images LeBron James (left) was a different player with Paul George on the court this season. Experience advantage rests with the Heat Players on the Miami Heat roster have combined for 194 games of Conference Finals exper...