Category: Wirenews
Duke All-American Jabari Parker entered the 2014 NBA Draft, announcing his decision in a thoughtful self-authored piece published by Sports Illustrated. Teammate Rodney Hood followed not far behind. According to reports on Thursday, Hood also opted to leave Duke to make himself available for the NBA Draft in June. Parker said the tug of good […]
Swingman James Young became the first of Kentucky’s latest talented freshman class to officially declare his intentions to leave after one season for a shot at the NBA Draft. Young averaged 14.3 points and 4.3 rebounds in his only season with the Wildcats, who reached the national championship game before losing to Connecticut earlier this […]
The NBA’s opening-round playoff matchups are set. Check out the matchups in each conference, as well as the complete schedule.
BOSTON — Washington Wizards coach Randy Wittman likes the way his team reacted down the stretch and is playing heading into the franchise’s first visit to the playoffs since 2008. The Wizards, 118-102 winners over the Boston Celtics in Wednesday night’s regular season finale, take a four-game winning streak into Sunday night’s playoff opener at […]
MILWAUKEE — There was almost nothing at stake on Wednesday night when the Atlanta Hawks beat the Milwaukee Bucks 111-103 in the regular-season finale at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Atlanta was headed to the playoffs, already locked into eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff spot and a first-round date with top-seeded Indiana. Milwaukee, meanwhile, […]
CLEVELAND — The Brooklyn Nets were more concerned with resting their starters than with who they were going to play in the first round of the playoffs. With their 114-85 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday in the season finale, the Nets dropped to the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference. Brooklyn (44-38) […]
NBA first-round playoff schedule. All times ET.WESTERN CONFERENCENo. 1 San Antonio Spurs vs. No. 8 Dallas Mavericks Game 1 — Sunday, April 20, Dallas at San Antonio, 1 p.m., TNT Game 2 — Wednesday, April 23, Dallas at San Antonio, 8 p.m., NBA TV Game 3 — Saturday, April 26, San Antonio at Dallas, 4:30 […]
NEW ORLEANS — For the Houston Rockets, the only season that counts begins at home Sunday night with their playoff opener against the Portland Trail Blazers. That is why after their 105-100 loss Wednesday night to the New Orleans Pelicans in a regular-season finale, which had no bearing on playoff seeding, the Rockets focused exclusively […]
SAN ANTONIO — For the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs, the regular-season finale was not at all indicative of how the first 81 games went. Eliminated from playoff contention more than a month ago, the Lakers ended their season by beating San Antonio 113-100 on Wednesday night at the AT&T Center. Los Angeles […]
NEW YORK — The New York Knicks ended their disappointing season on a modest four-game winning streak after knocking off the playoff-bound Toronto Raptors 95-92 Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks (37-45), last season’s Atlantic Division champions, finished out of the playoffs for the first time since the 2009-10 season. Toronto (48-34), this season’s […]
