The Nuggets slowed down Golden State’s guards, jump-started their transition game and got under Andrew Bogut’s skin in Game 5, jumping out to a 22-point lead before weathering the Warriors’ frenetic fourth quarter rally. Game 6 is Thursday night in Oakland, Calif. Golden State leads the series, 3-2. Andre Iguodala … Continue reading
“It was like a nightmare,” Dwight Howard said of his Lakers debut season after San Antonio completed its first-round playoff sweep on Sunday. “It was like a bad dream and you can’t wake up out of.” With Howard declining to discuss his upcoming free agency, Sunday’s game — in which … Continue reading
The N.B.A. playoffs spit out some sweep victims with suddenly perplexing futures, led by the completely inexplicable Lakers (of course). The N.F.L. draft sent 254 players to new homes that now have to figure out what to do with them, a problem that has plagued the Jets (of course), who … Continue reading
Wade, who has had continuing troubles with a sore right knee, was not sure if he would play against the Milwaukee Bucks. In the hotel before the team made the short trip to Bradley Center, James told Wade not to risk further injury. “I told him, Hey, if you don’t … Continue reading
LeBron James scored 7 of his 22 points at the end of the third quarter as the Heat pulled away from the host Bucks on Thursday. Their 104-91 victory gave them a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. The Heat, the defending champions, can close it out Sunday at Bradley … Continue reading
Tim Duncan had 17 points and 10 rebounds, Matt Bonner scored 10 points, and Kawhi Leonard added 8 points and 11 rebounds for host San Antonio, the Western Conference’s No. 2 seed. Seventh-seeded Los Angeles was led by Dwight Howard with 20 points and 15 rebounds, Pau Gasol with 16 … Continue reading
It was, as Kevin Paul Dupont writes in The Boston Globe, a city with a fractured soul inching toward familiarity. No one could pretend anything was normal, not with the Bruins players meeting and thanking the first responders from Monday’s scene, emergency personnel who used Wednesday’s game as a chance … Continue reading
“I was skeptical at first, mainly because Dwight wasn’t 100 percent and neither was Pau,” D’Antoni said. “But now, with both of them being close to 100 percent, yeah, they can play together. I probably had a preconceived notion, and it probably wasn’t right.” That admission came on the eve … Continue reading
How about Steve Blake going for 23 points in Sunday’s critical win over the San Antonio Spurs? “He was his normal self,” World Peace said. Sure, but what did he think of Antawn Jamison and Jodie Meeks combining for five 3-pointers early in the fourth quarter? “It’s nothing out of … Continue reading
Or at least that was the plan. This season has not been particularly kind to the Lakers, with age, injuries and ego undermining all those big moves. There was no greater indictment of the team’s outsize expectations than what fans witnessed Sunday night at Staples Center, where Coach Mike D’Antoni … Continue reading
