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ClutchPoints: “The top 4 players in the league when everyone is healthy are indisputably Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo & Joel Embiid. This year [Shai Gilgeous-Alexander] was No. 5… Jayson Tatum is somewhere six, seven, eight.” Agree with Zach Lowe? pic.twitter.com/dlBm6p8yUM "The top 4 players in the league when everyone is healthy are indisputably … [Read more...] about
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One golden rule that has still held up: Every champion but one for the last 44 years has been a top-three seed with at least 52 wins (prorated to 82 games) and a plus-3 net rating; that will hold up if Boston prevails in the NBA Finals, but not if Dallas wins. (The three teams in the West that met this criteria, Oklahoma City, Denver and Minnesota, have all been eliminated; the … [Read more...] about
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The defending champs encountered a fuel shortage in the second half of the season-defining game. “On one hand, we got the 2 seed,” Malone said Thursday when asked about how much he played his starters late in the regular season. “And on the other hand, I’m watching our players play in Game 7 in the second half, and our guys looked dead tired. I think you guys probably saw the … [Read more...] about
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Dane Moore: Chris Finch when asked if Dallas’ offensive plan could be part of the Wolves offensive blueprint moving forward: “I’m not a big fan of these heliocentric offenses.” Finch said he would look more to the Murray-Jokic Denver offense as an identity for Ant, KAT and this Wolves … [Read more...] about
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Marc J. Spears: Former NBA forward Drew Gordon, the brother of Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon, died in a car accident in Portland, Ore., today, his agent Calvin Andrews confirmed to ESPN Andscape. The San Jose native who played at UCLA and New Mexico was 33 years old. … [Read more...] about