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With the last meaningful college basketball action finished for the year, here are the top 60 2019 NBA Draft prospects as we head into draft season. The NCAA Tournament has come and gone. It provided us with an entertaining last three rounds, culminating in Virginia’s victory over Texas Tech in one of the best title
After parting ways with Dell Demps during the season, the New Orleans Pelicans are finalizing a deal with David Griffin to take over their basketball ops. Surveying the range of job opportunities in the NBA, it appears David Griffin has settled on the New Orleans Pelicans gig as the most attractive. Certainly, Griffin has come
6:56 PM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — As their quest for a third straight NBA championship begins on Saturday against the Los Angeles Clippers, Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors are confident that after several weeks of contentious disagreements with officials, they will be able to focus more and not let whistles affect them as
The Nets weren’t supposed to be this far along this fast. Even Coach Kenny Atkinson didn’t foresee a playoff berth so soon after bottoming out. “Never envisioned it. Not in my wildest dreams.” But as we enter the 2019 NBA Playoffs, the Nets season will continue on into the postseason for the first time since
8:20 AM ET Phoenix police have closed their case into sexual abuse allegations against former University of Arizona and NBA player Mike Bibby. Phoenix police Sgt. Vince Lewis told the Arizona Republic on Thursday that an investigation “did not reveal probable cause to recommend charges against anyone in the case.” In February, Bibby was fired
Previewing the first-round series between the Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs with shot charts, assist maps, offensive style charts and expected win probabilities. Shot charts The Denver Nuggets’ remarkable season has come on the backs of center-point Nikola Jokic leading them to the seventh-best offense in the league and veteran big man Paul Milsap
Let’s take a look back at the top wham, bam slams of the 2018-19 NBA season. Ah, the dunk. The purest form of basketball entertainment. Some are surprising because of who is giving, others for the recipient and others because they are the type of thing that you didn’t know could physically happen before someone
Previewing the first-round series between the Houston Rockets and Utah Jazz with shot charts, assist maps, offensive style charts and expected win probabilities. Shot charts James Harden has shot a truly unprecedented number of step back 3-pointers this year — approximately one out of every three in the entire NBA was taken by Harden. He
10:29 PM ET THESE ARE GOING to be anxious playoffs. There are stresses within the high-stakes games naturally, but there’s also another layer that is perhaps unique to this season. It’s the pressure of the aftermath and it will mount by the day, by the loss and, oddly in this unusual season, even by the
In this week’s 2019 NBA Mock Draft, we say goodbye to the NBA’s lottery teams as they close the season out of the playoffs. This week, we set the lottery order with a Tankathon simulation. The rest of the draft is based on projected standings from FiveThirtyEight’s CARM-Elo rankings as of April 7. A snapshot
Basketball Insiders’ “Fixing” series has been going on for a few weeks. We’ve started with the teams that hovered around the bottom of the league this season and are now transitioning to teams that stayed in the playoff hunt through the duration of the season. Today’s team: the Washington Wizards. Much has been made about
Welcome to The Whiteboard, catching you up every morning on what’s good around the NBA. Find The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you by email. Are they finally gonna win the East this year? Hard to say. Can they win the title? Feasibly, sure. But what the Raptors
5:43 PM ET ESPN News Services CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Cavaliers are not bringing back coach Larry Drew for a second season, the team announced Thursday. Drew led the Cavs to a 19-57 record; he took over when Tyronn Lue was fired Oct. 28 after an 0-6 start. The team said it reached a mutual
Welcome to The Whiteboard, catching you up every morning on what’s good around the NBA. Find The Whiteboard here on The Step Back, and subscribe here to get it delivered to you by email. Arguments and accolades. It’s what sports coverage is in 2019. If you don’t have a website that’s putting out a list of the
DENVER, CO – APRIL 03: San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich yells at referee David Guthrie after Guthrie threw him out of the game in the first few minutes against the Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center April 03, 2019. (Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images) The worst value deals
SAN ANTONIO, TX – APRIL 10: Dirk Nowitzki #41 of the Dallas Mavericks cries before the game against the San Antonio Spurs on April 10, 2019 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, user is consenting to the
3:07 AM ET Playoff basketball is back! It has been a long regular season (177 days, to be exact), but the postseason has arrived, and it looks a lot different than it did a year ago. For the first time since 2010, a team not led by LeBron James will emerge from the Eastern Conference,
The Golden State Warriors will enter the 2018-19 NBA playoffs as the overwhelming favorites to win their third straight championship. Their victory isn’t a foregone conclusion — after all, the Houston Rockets were one Chris Paul hamstring strain away from potentially toppling them last season — but they know the stakes of this playoff run.
Basketball Insiders’ “Fixing” series has been going on for a few weeks. We’ve started with the teams that hovered around the bottom of the league this season and are now transitioning to teams that stayed in the playoff hunt through the duration of the season. Today’s team: the Washington Wizards. Much has been made about
Harry Giles is in the air, all seven feet and three inches of wingspan completely uncoiled. To go back just moments before, Giles steps up and receives the pass from Bogdan Bogdanovic. Bogdanovic then darts down the far sideline, around a screen and toward the basket as Giles throws a slightly overthrown bounce pass back
12:53 AM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Looking into the rearview mirror at a season that went awry, several members of the Los Angeles Lakers spoke openly about the affect trade-deadline rumors surrounding the team’s pursuit of Anthony Davis had on the locker room. “At the trade deadline, everybody kind of lost themselves,” Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 31: RJ Barrett #5 of the Duke Blue Devils reacts in the second half against the Michigan State Spartans during the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament East Regional Final at Capital One Arena on March 31, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images) How will Tottenham cope without Harry
TAMPA, FL – APRIL 07: Arike Ogunbowale #24 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish tries to shoot over Kalani Brown #21 of the the Baylor Bears at Amalie Arena on April 7, 2019 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Ben Solomon/NCAA Photos via Getty Images) Lucifer rises for season 4 with an official Netflix release date
3:21 PM ET ESPN News Services The Detroit Pistons, who are in a win-and-in scenario for the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference, could be without Blake Griffin for their regular-season finale against the New York Knicks on Wednesday night. Detroit overcame a 19-point halftime deficit to beat the Grizzlies on Tuesday night and
We’re finally entering the homestretch of the 2018-2019 NBA season. Every team in the league has either five or six games left in their season. With such little time left, the playoff picture is almost all but formed. The top eight teams in the Western Conference have all clinched playoff berths. What remains to be
With an open roster spot and nothing to lose, the Phoenix Suns are set to meet with Jimmer Fredette. At 17-55 right now, the Phoenix Suns are locked into a last-place finish in the Western Conference. They also have an open roster spot, and according to John Gambadoro of the 98.7 FM the Suns were
7:50 AM ET The 2019 NBA draft comes with the debut of new odds throughout the lottery — giving more teams a reasonable chance of winning the No. 1 overall pick and a chance to select consensus top prospect Zion Williamson. The lottery will occur on on May 14 on ESPN, and the draft itself
If Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving team up in free agency this summer, they’re shaping up to be a highly dysfunctional star duo. By most accounts, it’s inevitable Kevin Durant will be leaving the Golden State Warriors in free agency this offseason. Kyrie Irving professed a commitment to the Boston Celtics at one point, but
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – FEBRUARY 17: Magic Johnson reacts after being introduced at halftime during the NBA All-Star game as part of the 2019 NBA All-Star Weekend at Spectrum Center on February 17, 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is