Why Simmons has Trae over Steph on All-NBA Second Team originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea For the first two months of the 2021-22 NBA season, Warriors star Steph Curry looked like he was on track to win his third league MVP. But a dip in production, combined with the Warriors’ lackluster play, shelved most people from including Curry in …

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports If allegations of withholding payments from league are true, Daniel Snyder likely will be done Saturday night’s bombshell could indeed be the last straw for the NFL and Daniel Snyder. A.J. Perez of FrontOfficeSports.com reported last night that Congress is exploring whether the Washington Commanders withheld money that should have been surrendered to the league’s …

Add Magic Johnson to the shortlist of Lakers legends who are criticizing LeBron James this past week. A list that already includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who recently said that LeBron should be embarrassed with his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. But while Abdul-Jabbar is criticizing LeBron’s off-court activism, Johnson is taking aim at James’ involvement in the roster construction for the Lakers …

Dejounte Murray: I Randomly Got Sick And It Sucks It Happen At This Crucial Time While Me And The Team Are Rolling. I Lost 7-8 Pounds And Been Feeling Awful And Doing Everything To Get Healthy First Then Working Out To Get Ready To Help The Team Get In This Play In And Fight For The Playoffs.Source: Twitter @DejounteMurray What’s …

The Associated Press Tar Heels, Jayhawks enter NCAA title tilt with common roots NEW ORLEANS (AP) The story of college basketball can be traced largely from the base of Mount Oread on the campus of Kansas, where the inventor of the game was also the school’s first coach, and across the heartland and down Tobacco Road to North Carolina, where …

Kurt Helin 1. Tyler Herro (Heat) 2. Kevin Love (Cavaliers) 3. Jordan Clarkson (Jazz) Tyler Herro runs away with the top spot here, averaging 20.6 points a game for the Heat, shooting 39.3% on 3-pointers, and being a key part of Miami’s closing lineups. No other candidate impacted his team as much and as was as critical to their success. …

That must have been some halftime speech. Down 35-29 at the break to No. 10 Miami (Fla.) last week in the Elite Eight, No. 2 Kansas outscored the Hurricanes 47-15 in the second half to put an exclamation point on another Final Four bid. For pure dominance, that 20-minute burst showed how good Kansas can be. And just under a …

College students, get a year of HawgBeat coverage for just $11.95! Request details via email from your school account (.edu) to andrewhutchinson413 (at) gmail (dot) com. FAYETTEVILLE — Jaylin Williams will test the professional waters, he announced Monday. Arkansas’ star big man has decided to go through the 2022 NBA Draft process, but will not hire an agent so he …

After announcing that he would return to college basketball to use his fifth year of eligibility back at the end of March, Florida’s starting point guard Tyree Appleby officially entered the transfer portal on Tuesday, as reported by On3’s Matt Zenitz. The decision was widely expected, and while it does not rule out a return to Gainesville, it certainly opens …

The San Antonio Spurs made the playoffs 22 straight times under coach Gregg Popovich but have been absent from the postseason the last two seasons. They have a chance to end that drought if they can hold onto one of the last two spots for the play-in tournament in the Western Conference. San Antonio leads the Los Angeles Lakers by …

Tom Izzo’s top assistant, Dwayne Stephens, is leaving the Michigan State program after being hired as the head coach of Western Michigan. Stephens had been by Izzo’s side for the past 19 seasons, but has now decided to make the jump into leading his own program. Now, Izzo has the opportunity to reinforce his staff with a new hire. The …

The Boston Celtics have had some seriously efficient nights on offense in the Brad Stevens era dating back to when the former Butler head coach made the leap to the NBA, and then from there to the Celtics’ front office at the start of the 2021 offseason. But has there been an outing that saw Boston put the proverbial biscuit …

What a week of sports we’ve got here. It began last night with the women’s title game — as well as Wrestlemania for those who like fake sports, too — and tonight we’ve got the men’s national title game. But while I’ve got plenty of picks for you tonight, there’s plenty more to come this week. We have the Champions …

The Los Angeles Lakers remain in desperation mode as they inch closer to being eliminated from play-in berth consideration. The Lakers have lost six straight contests and 19 of their past 24 as they enter Tuesday night’s must-win road game against the NBA-best Phoenix Suns (62-16). Los Angeles (31-47) trails the 10th-place San Antonio Spurs (33-45) by two games and …

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Kentucky forward Keion Brooks Jr. will enter the NBA draft but does not plan on hiring an agent, leaving open the possibility of returning to school. Brooks averaged career bests in several categories as a junior, including 10.8 points per contest on 49% shooting. His best performance was 27 points and eight rebounds in Kentucky’s 80-62 rout …

Gene Shue, one of the original point guards for the Detroit Pistons, died Monday. He was 90. Shue, whose NBA playing and coaching career spanned four decades, spent six years in the Pistons organization — starting in the 1956-57 season when the team was still in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The franchise moved to Detroit the following season, which was the …

It’s impossible to quantify the overwhelming confidence boost given to North Carolina with its 81-77 win against rival Duke. In the crowning moment in one of college basketball’s defining rivalries, the Tar Heels were temporarily wobbled by the Blue Devils in the final minutes of the first half and the start of the second but had answer after answer in …

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The 2022 NBA MVP race has coalesced around the three best big men in basketball: reigning MVP Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets, two-time MVP and reigning Finals MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers.  Embiid is the only one of that bunch who does not have an MVP, and he set out …

From the moment Mike Krzyzewski announced in June that the 2021-22 season would be his last, it became inevitable that his 42nd and final campaign as Duke’s coach would be a farewell tour of sorts, whether he desired one or not. What a farewell it turned out to be for the sport’s all-time wins leader. Krzyzewski guided the Blue Devils …

On this day in NBA history, April 4, 2012, Blake Griffin threw down a mesmerizing dunk. Stream More Live Games With NBA … Source link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpeWqFao_NM Author : Publish date : [publish_date] Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns isn’t looking for style points during the final week of the regular season. He just wants three more victories. The Timberwolves begin the final stretch on Tuesday against the visiting Washington Wizards (34-44), who are coming off a 42-point loss to the Boston Celtics on Sunday. Minnesota (45-34) is in seventh place in the Western …

Iowa men’s basketball head coach Fran McCaffery and his teams have won at least 20 games each of the past four seasons. Sophomore Keegan Murray emerged as a national player of the year candidate this past season, averaging 23.5 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. The Hawkeyes rode the stardom of Keegan Murray and a talented supporting cast that included …

Getty Images The Brooklyn Nets will be without Ben Simmons for the remainder of the regular season and the play-in tournament due to his back injury, head coach Steve Nash said Monday. Simmons has still not played this season, and it remains unclear when or if he’ll be back on the court.  While Simmons has been traveling with the team …

It would be an absurd and awkward scene befitting of this entire absurd and awkward scandal — NCAA president Mark Emmert handing a national title trophy to Bill Self, the very Kansas coach still awaiting resolution on an infractions case involving five Level I charges. The NCAA has called the violations “egregious” and “severe.” Public opinion has softened dramatically on …