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Isaiah Hartenstein became a New York Knick in part due to a quirk in the collective bargaining agreement. Let’s wind the clock back three years. Hartenstein, then a journeyman having spent stints with the Rockets, Nuggets and Cavaliers, couldn’t find a contract with another NBA team until weeks before 2021 training camp began. Eventually, he ultimately signed with the Los …

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Welcome to “The Loser Lineup,” where we delve into what teams eliminated from playoff contention must do to elevate their fantasy basketball game. As the dust settles on this season’s disappointments, it’s time for these teams to strategize, rebuild and reinvigorate their rosters for a shot at redemption next season. Join us as we explore the pivotal moves and player …

NBA fans who relentlessly complained while the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers were meeting up in the Finals for four straight seasons must be throwing a party right now. With a 98-90 Game 7 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday, the defending champion Denver Nuggets were eliminated from the playoffs, meaning that there will be a new NBA …

2024 NBA Combine Bronny James was clear: “I would be happy about getting to the league instead of me thinking about playing with my dad. That’s not my mindset or not at all… I just want to have people know my name is Bronny James and not being identified as just LeBron James’ son. I feel like that would great.” …

This isn’t the way things were supposed to end. When the Denver Nuggets bolted to a 20-point lead over the Minnesota Timberwolves halfway through the deciding game of the Western Conference semi-finals, it seemed as if the final chapter of this engrossing, hectic, epic series was written: the defending champions, stunned and humiliated in Games 1, 2 and 6, had …

More people are watching and consuming the WNBA. That’s simply a fact. The Liberty became the first team in WNBA history to bring in more than $2 million in revenue during a matchup with Caitlin Clark and the Fever on Saturday. After a disappointing season for the Nets, nearly 18,000 fans at Barclays Center were treated to a 91-80 win …

For Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Knicks and Pacers will leave it all on the court. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images) The New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers have taken this series as far as it can go. It has see-sawed back and forth unpredictably, with the Pacers mostly playing the spoiler. The Knicks went up 2-0, …

2024 NBA Playoffs – Indiana Pacers v New York Knicks This last injury just sums up the Knicks playoff run. As the Knicks tried to make history with a Game 7 comeback at home, news came out that Jalen Brunson had left the game in the second half with a fractured left hand and would not return, the team announced. …

In a Game 7 at Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks finally broke down Sunday while the Indiana Pacers broke out for a 130–109 win. The Pacers advanced to the Eastern Conference finals to face the Boston Celtics, while the Knicks are left to wonder what could have been if not for all the injuries they suffered. Tyrese Haliburton …

The Knicks battled through injuries all season and proved their resiliency time and time again, but their mettle and luck ran out Sunday as the Indiana Pacers shot the lights out at Madison Square Garden in Game 7, as New York’s season came to an end in a 130-109 loss. The Pacers set an NBA record for the best shooting …

The hard lesson learned by virtually every NBA superstar from Michael Jordan to Kobe Bryant to LeBron James is that you need to take your lumps before you progress to the next level. A rough shooting night, a poor defensive performance, a failure to come through in clutch moments — they’re all par for the course for every player who …

2024 NBA Playoffs – Indiana Pacers v New York Knicks Game 7s are notoriously low scoring — the combination of dialed-in defenses and nerves giving players T-Rex arms traditionally leads to grinding, low-scoring affairs with flashes of playmaking. The Indiana Pacers disrupted that tradition from the opening tip and shot a record 67.1% for the game — the highest field …

NBA fans who relentlessly complained while the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers were meeting up in the Finals for four straight seasons must be throwing a party right now. With a 98-90 Game 7 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday, the defending champion Denver Nuggets were eliminated from the playoffs, meaning that there will be a new NBA …

CP3 ‘definitely open’ to owning NBA, WNBA team after he retires originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area As Chris Paul nears the end of his legendary playing career, the future Hall of Famer already is eyeing his next move, owning an NBA franchise. During an interview with Forbes, Paul was asked about the potential for an ownership spot with …

Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets were poised to close out their series without much of an issue on Sunday night. They had built up a 20-point lead in the second half and largely shut down Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards, after all. Yet somehow, despite what was a largely awful offensive showing in the first 24 minutes, the Timberwolves …

The basketball world was in shock as the Minnesota Timberwolves climbed back from a 20-point deficit to defeat the Nuggets, 98-90, in Denver during Sunday’s winner-take-all Game 7. The Western Conference series saw its fair share of lopsided games and it looked like this would be another blowout. However, Denver had a disastrous third quarter and the Timberwolves stayed poised, …

NEW YORK — With three minutes left in Game 7, Josh Hart did something he almost never does. He moved slowly. He’d just discarded Andrew Nembhard, sending the Pacers guard to the floor while jockeying for rebounding position. In the process, he picked up his sixth foul, granting him an early exit — all too rare for the iron man …

DENVER — There’s no more waiting your turn in today’s NBA, no more requisite suffering a team must endure before reaching elite status. Windows open and close quicker than anyone could expect, so if there’s an opportunity for the taking, you’d better take it. And the Minnesota Timberwolves shook off nerves, first-half lethargy and even 20 years of generational ineptitude …

How the high-octane Pacers could push Celtics in East Finals originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Indiana Pacers rode a historic shooting performance to a Game 7 upset over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden Sunday and now will trek to Boston to open the Eastern Conference finals on Tuesday night. The Celtics know plenty well what …

Minnesota Timberwolves v Denver Nuggets – Game Seven In the second half of a messy, wild and entertaining Game 7 — when legs were tired and teams’ wills were tested — it was clear one team had championship energy and resolve. Not the defending champion Denver Nuggets. It was the Minnesota Timberwolves. They were down 20 just two minutes into …

Tom Thibodeau just finished the fourth season of the five-year deal he signed with the Knicks in 2020. He’s taken the franchise to the postseason in three of those four seasons. He ranks fifth all-time in overall wins and postseason wins. The past four seasons have been the Knicks’ best four-year stretch in the past 25 years. So it seems …

The key to beating Nikola Jokic, prior to the 2024 postseason, had been to beat his teammates. When the Nuggets lost to the Portland Trail Blazers in 2019, they did so despite winning the minutes Jokic spent on the floor in that series. For as ballyhooed as their 3-1 comeback over the Clippers was a year later, that series might …

2023-24 season: 56-26 Highlight: While it’d be easy to point to Nikola Jokić winning the MVP award, the fact the Nuggets saw improvement from their young role players is a highlight in and of itself given future implications. How it ended With the league still in championship shuffle mode. There hasn’t been a repeat champion since the Golden State Warriors …

The reigning champion Denver Nuggets are heading home in the 2024 NBA playoffs. The Nuggets were stunned by the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 7 of their second-round series on Sunday night. The Wolves overcame a 20-point second-half deficit. No reigning champion has made it to the conference finals since the 2019 Warriors. Earlier on Sunday, Indiana Pacers ended the New …