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After a dramatic Monday night, the NBA brings two more In-Season Tournament games Tuesday. The downside is that it doesn’t leave us with a ton of options to choose from on Yahoo. Still, here are some players to consider for your lineups, as well as a few to possibly avoid. GUARDS Devin Booker, PHO at LAL ($43): The Suns continue …

At long last, Grand Theft Auto VI’s long-awaited and highly-anticipated trailer has dropped. Believe it or not, it has been 10 years since Grand Theft Auto V was released, and a lot has changed in that time. That’s especially true in the sports world, where things shift rapidly. When GTA V was first released, the landscape of major sports in …

How Warriors’ Quinones formed ‘unbreakable’ bond with KAT this summer originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Santa Cruz’s Kaiser Permanente Arena is a steppingstone for some, a lifeline for others and part of a dream for all who play in the home of the Warriors’ G League affiliate. It’s a place for hope, not always a place for stars. …

Getty Images Monday was the newbie portion of the In-Season Tournament quarterfinals. Tuesday is for the vets. The league’s two biggest markets (New York and Los Angeles) will be represented, and the four teams have three combined MVPs (LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Giannis Antetokounmpo) along with six other healthy former All-Stars (Anthony Davis, Devin Booker, Jalen Brunson, Julius Randle, …

1 Timberwolves The Wolves had a strong week, picking up an impressive win over the Thunder before taking care of business against the Jazz and Hornets. Their hallmark stingy defense returned, allowing just under 106 points per 100 possessions in the three wins, while Karl-Anthony Towns led the way offensively with over 24 points per game on 50% 3-point shooting. …

Getty Images A fan died at the Golden 1 Center during the Sacramento Kings’ 127-117 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night in the quarterfinals of the NBA’s In-Season Tournament. Per the Kings, the fan suffered a medical emergency. The Kings’ statement: During the first quarter of the Kings vs. Pelicans game, a guest had a medical emergency. …

Tatum has blunt reaction to Celtics losing in IST quarterfinals originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The NBA In-Season Tournament was designed to make regular season games mean more, and it sounds like it had the desired effect on Jayson Tatum. Tatum’s Boston Celtics fell to the Indiana Pacers 122-112 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Monday night in the IST quarterfinals. …

The Tuesday NBA schedule features a pair of 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament quarterfinal matchups. In the earlier game, the Milwaukee Bucks host the New York Knicks at Fiserv Forum with a trip to Las Vegas on the line. The Bucks are 14-6 overall this season, including 4-1 in the last five games and 9-1 at home. The Knicks are 12-7 …

When Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown each score 30 points in the same game, the Boston Celtics almost always win. They fell to 24-2 in such games on Monday night, however, as the Indiana Pacers pulled away down the stretch for a thrilling 122-112 win in the first quarterfinal of the NBA’s In-Season Tournament.  The heightened focus on the inaugural …

I’ll admit that I was one of those skeptics about the NBA’s inaugural In-Season Tournament, but commissioner Adam Silver has to be thrilled with the way this thing is playing out. To start, the group stage games were fun. And the first night knockout games — with the Pacers eliminating the Celtics and the Pelicans taking out the Kings — was awesome.  …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Brandon Ingram scored 30 points and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the Sacramento Kings 127-117 on Monday night in the quarterfinals of the NBA’s In-Season Tournament. Ingram helped New Orleans erase an early deficit and the Pelicans never trailed in the second half as they advanced to play the winner of Tuesday night’s game between Phoenix …

Kings eliminated from IST after losing to Pelicans in quarterfinals originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Kings won’t be packing their bags for Las Vegas any time soon. For the third time of the 2023-24 NBA season, Sacramento fell to the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night at Golden 1 Center and was eliminated from the NBA In-Season …

Getty Images A fan died at the Golden 1 Center during the Sacramento Kings’ 127-117 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night in the quarterfinals of the NBA’s In-Season Tournament. Per the Kings, the fan suffered a medical emergency, and there was no larger incident.  The Kings’ statement: During the first quarter of the Kings vs. Pelicans game, …

The NBA’s In-Season Tournament has seen its first two knockout games. In Monday’s quarterfinal games, the Indiana Pacers sent the Boston Celtics home with a 122-112 victory in the first East game and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the host Sacramento Kings, 127-117. Both victors now head to Las Vegas for Thursday’s semifinal games. The remainder of the semifinal bracket …

A fan died at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento while attending Monday’s NBA in-season tournament quarterfinal game between the New Orleans Pelicans and Sacramento Kings, the Kings said in a statement according to several reports. “During the first quarter of the Kings vs. Pelicans game, a guest had a medical emergency,” the Kings said in a statement. “EMS immediately responded …

Well, that was fun. The crowds on the opening night of the NBA’s in-season tournament single-elimination quarterfinals created a playoff atmosphere. The play was not as crisp as it should be come April, but there was an intensity on the court that we have never before seen in December, and for that the league wins. On last season’s first Monday …

Tyrese Haliburton had a milestone night on Monday, and not just in the ways that you’re thinking of. His 26-point, 13-assist, 10-rebound stat line did give him the first triple-double of his career, and after spending the first three seasons of his career on lottery teams, Monday’s In-Season Tournament quarterfinal was the closest he’s ever come to winning a playoff …

Boston Celtics v Indiana Pacers: Quarterfinals – 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament That is why the Indiana Pacers have been a League Pass favorite all season. And this is what the NBA’s In-Season Tournament is supposed to be all about. The Indiana Pacers have been the most entertaining and overlooked team in the NBA this season, and when they finally got …

The NBA In-Season Tournament has seen its first knockout game. The Indiana Pacers and Boston Celtics battled down the stretch in the tournament’s first quarterfinal Monday night, but in the end it was home team Pacers earning the 122-112 victory and advancing to Thursday’s East semifinal against either the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks or the conference’s wild card New York Knicks …

Celtics-Pacers takeaways: Third-quarter woes cost C’s trip to Las Vegas originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Three Key Storylines Third-quarter woes continue Haliburton puts on a show 3-pointers make the difference The Boston Celtics will not make the trip to Las Vegas for the NBA In-Season Tournament semifinals. It will be the Indiana Pacers advancing to the next round after …

Dirk Nowitzki’s NBA career overlapped with the start of Luka Doncic’s by one season, 2018-19, when the Mavericks traded for Doncic’s rights on draft night.  Doncic was immediately regarded as the guy who was going to take the torch from Nowitzki and carry the Mavericks back into the ranks of the elite, but Nowitzki was initially skeptical. He wondered if …

Charles Barkley ‘guarantees’ Celtics will win 2024 NBA championship originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Prior to Monday night’s tip-off of the In-Season Tournament quarterfinals matchup between the Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers, Charles Barkley confidently called his favorite to win the NBA Finals, going as far as guaranteeing it. In a pregame segment during NBA on TNT, Barkley, along …

Charles Barkley ‘guarantees’ that Boston Celtics will win the championship originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Prior to Monday night’s tip-off of the In-Season Tournament quarterfinals matchup between the Boston Celtics and the Indiana Pacers, Charles Barkley confidently called his favorite to win the NBA Finals, going as far as guaranteeing it. In a pre-game segment during NBA on TNT, …

Zion Williamson jokes about wanting to play for Bulls in viral clip originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago As rampant misinformation continues to plague the social media landscape, the responsibility of reputable news sources to report what isn’t true has become just as important as the responsibility to report what is. A video in which Zion Williamson allegedly implied he …

Eddie House responds to Magic guard Cole Anthony’s callout originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Eddie House vs. the Orlando Magic is becoming one of the more entertaining rivalries in the NBA. It all began last December when House called the Magic “garbage” after Boston’s loss to Orlando. When the Magic beat the C’s again a couple of days later, …