The NBA Playoffs are finally here for the Philadelphia 76ers and the goal now is to finally win a championship. They have fallen in the Eastern Conference semifinals in four of the past five seasons as they have yet to go on a deep run during the Joel Embiid era. There have been plenty of different reasons for that, but …

Getty Images With a 4-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night, the New York Islanders were able to clinch a berth in the Stanley Cup playoffs. It was a victory felt across the five boroughs, as it marked a rare occasion for New York-area sports that hasn’t occurred in nearly 30 years. With the Islanders clinching a playoff …

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Draymond identifies what really makes Brown irreplaceable originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea SAN FRANCISCO — From the time that Mike Brown accepted the Sacramento Kings’ head coaching job in the middle of the Warriors’ championship run last season to throughout the 2022-23 regular season and even going into the heated first-round playoff matchup between these two Northern California rivals, …

Andrew Wiggins will likely play 20-25 minutes off the bench for the Golden State Warriors on Saturday in their series opener against the Sacramento Kings, according to The Athletic’s Anthony Slater and Shams Charania. This will be Wiggins’ first game since Feb. 13; he was away from the team for more than a month because of a family issue.  If …

UCLA freshman Amari Bailey announced Thursday on social media that he will forgo his remaining college eligibility and declare for the 2023 NBA draft. Bailey, who was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman team, averaged 11.2 points, 3.8 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.1 steals on 38.9% shooting from 3-point range. He scored in double figures in 18 games, including a season-high …

Back in 2018, Cleveland Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith was suspended one game for throwing soup on assistant coach Damon Jones. In an appearance on “The Old Man and the Three” podcast, Smith gave his account of the incident, including which kind of soup he threw. Smith said he is on good terms with Jones, but the former Cavaliers assistant didn’t …

UCLA guard Amari Bailey shoots against Arizona’s Cedric Henderson Jr. on March 4 at Pauley Pavilion. Bailey announced on Instagram he’s entering the 2023 NBA draft. (Ringo H.W. Chiu / Associated Press) Having flourished on college basketball’s biggest stage, Amari Bailey is moving on to something bigger. The UCLA freshman guard whose late-season surge helped carry the Bruins to the …

How anonymous NBA coach, exec predict Warriors-Kings series originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea It’s a Northern California matchup in the first round of the NBA playoffs as the Sacramento Kings face off against the Warriors, who are preparing to defend their 2022 championship. There are many people within NBA circles sharing their winner in the series, which begins Saturday at …

The morning after the Toronto Raptors blew a 19-point lead and missed half of their 36 free throw attempts against the Chicago Bulls in the play-in, coach Nick Nurse was not definitive about his future with the franchise. At his end-of-season media availability, Nurse told reporters on Thursday that his status will be evaluated, just like everything else.  “I think, …

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The NBCA’s Coach of the Year winner was announced on Thursday with Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown receiving the award. This is the coaches association’s version of the award. The NBA’s Coach of the Year award will be voted by the media — although Brown will also likely win that too. Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault was …

UConn star Adama Sanogo is entering the 2023 NBA Draft after a legendary NCAA Tournament performance during the Huskies’ march to the 2023 national championship. Sanogo was named the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player to cap a standout junior season during which he served as a team co-captain. Sanogo earned Third Team All-America honors from CBS Sports for the 2022-23 …

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Light the beam in honor of Mike Brown, as the Sacramento Kings coach has won the National Basketball Coaches Association’s  2023 Coach of the Year award. The NBCA announced Thursday that the NBA’s 30 head coaches voted Brown this year’s winner, with four other candidates — Mike Budenholzer of the Milwaukee Bucks, Mark Daigneault of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Joe …

Brooklyn Nets head coach Jacque Vaughn has had one of the tougher coaching jobs in the NBA throughout this season. He started this campaign as the assistant coach to Steve Nash, but became the interim head coach after Nash was fired on Nov. 1 following a 2-5 start. Since Vaughn took over for Nash, the Nets are 43-32 (57.3%) and …

It could be a two-team race for star transfer Max Abmas. Texas and Kansas State continue their pursuit of the Oral Roberts standout. Abmas is one of the top scorers in the transfer portal to date. He has scored over 2,500 points at the college level, averaging over 21 points per game in each of the last three seasons. He …

Getty Images Ja Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies has filed a countersuit against Josh Holloway, the high school basketball player involved in an incident during a pickup game at Morant’s house last July, as first reported by the Daily Memphian‘s Drew Hill. In the court filings (via Action News 5), Morant said that Holloway:  Intentionally threw a basketball at his …

How much does NCAA Tournament success matter in evaluating the pecking order of college basketball conferences? It’s a question that must be pondered when ranking the performance of the sport’s power six conferences from the 2022-23 season. Unlike in the 2021-22 campaign when the Big 12 ranked as our No. 1 conference after producing the national champion following a great …

How are fans of the Boston Celtics feeling about facing the Atlanta Hawks? Excited to miss the Miami Heat? Concerned they are facing a ball club capable of beating them in the 7-8 play-in match to face the Celtics? relaxed at the prospect of having a .500 team in front of Boston in the first round? Or worried they may …

Florida basketball fell well short of expectations in Todd Golden’s first season as head coach, finishing with a losing record after getting bumped by the Central Florida Knights in the National Invitation Tournament back in March. However, it is not all doom and gloom in Gainesville. Despite losing a handful of players to the transfer portal and expiring eligibility — …

Sometimes, when John Konchar is on the court, he gets the sense that an opponent is not familiar with his game. No credible scouting report would describe him as a poor defender, but this does not stop ballhandlers from targeting him. “People will go at me, like, not knowing really who I am,” Konchar said. He said this in the …

Among fans of the Boston Celtics, the news breaking that the ball club would be facing the Atlanta Hawks instead of the Miami Heat was generally met with enthusiasm by most fans of the team, but a select subset of the Celtics’ fanbase was actually disappointed by the outcome. To be fair, the Miami Heat have been something of a …

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We recently covered the most important five-man lineups in the Eastern Conference. The exercise was relatively straightforward. There are three bonafide championship contenders in the East followed by two frisky underdogs. After that? There’s just not much worth exploring. The Brooklyn Nets barely clung to a top-six seed thanks to wins accumulated by players no longer on their roster. The …