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NBA legend and Hall of Famer Bill Walton, who won the 1978 MVP Award and two championships with the Portland Trail Blazers and Boston Celtics, has died at 71, the league announced on Monday. Walton passed after a prolonged bout with cancer.  “Bill Walton was truly one of a kind. As a Hall of Fame player, he redefined the center …

Basketball legend Bill Walton dies at 71 after long battle with cancer originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton, who was a two-time national champion at UCLA before winning two titles in the NBA, died Monday following a prolonged battle with cancer, the NBA announced. He was 71. The NBA said Walton was surrounded …

Getty Images Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton died Monday at the age of 71, according to an announcement from the NBA. Walton had been battling cancer. “Bill Walton was truly one of a kind. As a Hall of Fame player, he redefined the center position,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a press release. “His unique all-around skills made him a …

Bill Walton jokes with fellow NBA MVP Nikola Jokić at the 2022 NBA All-Star Game. Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP Hall of fame basketball star and two-time NBA champion Bill Walton has died of cancer at the age of 71, the NBA announced on Monday. “Bill Walton was truly one of a kind,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “As …

Draymond, Stephen A poke holes in SVG’s lofty Luka-Kyrie praise originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Recency bias is rearing it’s head during the 2024 Western Conference finals, and Draymond Green and Stephen A. Smith aren’t having it. TNT color commentator and former NBA coach Stan Van Gundy has made it clear he thinks very highly of the Dallas …

by Zak Hanshew, Rotoworld Previous team recaps: DET, WAS, POR, CHA, SAS, TOR, MEM, UTA, BKN, ATL At a glance: Record: 39-43 (9th, West)  Offensive Rating: 114.0 (19th) Defensive Rating: 115.7 (22nd)  Net Rating: -1.7 (20th)  Pace: 96.9 (28th)  2024 NBA Draft Picks: 11 Things haven’t gone quite the way the Bulls wanted in recent seasons. The team made a blockbuster trade for Nikola Vucevic to close out the 2020-21 …

Three close games between Minnesota and Dallas, and three times that the Mavericks — specifically Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving — were better in the clutch. That’s why Dallas is up 3-0 in the Western Conference Finals and one game away from reaching the NBA Finals. It’s also why the Mavericks could win those Finals. Here are three takeaways from …

Draymond says KAT ‘lying’ about taking 1,500 shots per day originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Draymond Green, serving as a TNT analyst, has spent a majority of the 2024 Western Conference finals targeting Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert. But after the Timberwolves’ Game 3 loss to the Dallas Mavericks, the Warriors forward turned his attention to fellow Minnesota …

The Boston Celtics can complete a sweep of the Indiana Pacers on Monday, and given the fact the Mavericks are also up 3-0 on the Timberwolves, additional rest could be a strong motivator for Boston. The Celtics erased a 12-point halftime deficit before winning Game 3, 114-111, on Saturday behind 36 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists from Jayson Tatum …

Just before the new year, the Knicks traded RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley, two of their most prized prospects at the time, for OG Anunoby in the biggest shakeup of the Leon Rose era. Not only would they be gambling on Anunoby as the missing piece, giving up two core pieces, but they did so with full knowledge of his …

The No. 1 seed Boston Celtics are going for the sweep in the 2024 NBA Eastern Conference finals when they play the No. 6 seed Indiana Pacers on Monday evening. The Pacers are hoping to get a win on their home court to keep the series alive. In Game 3, Indiana blew an 18-point lead as Boston defeated the Pacers …

INDIANAPOLIS — Neither of Boston’s All-Star wings, 6-foot-6 Jaylen Brown nor 6-foot-8 Jayston Tatum, could stop T.J. McConnell on Saturday night. The Pacers’ pesky reserve point guard dribbled along the baseline of Game 3’s second quarter against the Celtics, sneaking around Brown and then drawing Tatum, before faking the first-team All-NBA selection out of his shoes. McConnell buried that midrange …

The conference finals are underway in the 2024 NBA playoffs, and the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks are each just one game away from the NBA Finals. The Celtics, up 3-0 against the Indiana Pacers, will go for the series sweep on Monday night in Indiana, where the Pacers just dropped their first game in these playoffs. Boston, the No. …

Scalabrine: C’s gave ‘championship-level performance’ in Game 3 originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Boston Celtics’ Game 3 win over the Indiana Pacers wasn’t their prettiest, but it still may have been their most impressive postseason performance thus far. After taking an early nine-point lead, the C’s found themselves down 18 in the second quarter while getting pummeled in …

SNY’s Ian Begley will be responding to and breaking down answers to Knicks questions from readers. Here’s the latest… Ian, what is your sense of what the Knicks will do this offseason, do they believe that if this current team is healthy going into next season, they’re title contenders or will they look for that star to pair alongside Brunson …

The Boston Celtics look to complete the sweep and advance to the NBA FInals for the second time in three seasons when they visit the Indiana Pacers for Game 4 of the 2024 Eastern Conference finals on Monday. Boston, which lost to Golden State in the 2021-22 Finals and is seeking its first championship since 2007-08, rallied from an 18-point, …

NBA: Playoffs-Boston Celtics at Indiana Pacers The game was decided before the final play took place — Indiana had been up 18 in the third quarter and by eight with three minutes left, but Jayson Tatum and the Celtics had walked the Pacers down. Jrue Holiday’s steal on Andrew Nembhard was the best clutch play of the night and sealed …

Draymond responds to heckling Timberwolves fans by dragging Gobert originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Draymond Green made his opinion on Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert perfectly clear on Friday night. Green joined TNT’s “Inside the NBA” as a guest analyst for Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinal round between Minnesota and the Dallas Mavericks at Target Center, …

2024 NBA Playoffs – Denver Nuggets v Los Angeles Lakers LeBron James has until June 29 to decide whether to opt in to the final year of his contract with the Lakers, which means signing an extension with the team (totaling $164 million over three years), or opting out, in which case he becomes a free agent and can re-sign …

Watch Steph, Bradley Cooper shoot cheesesteaks into Bottle Rock crowd originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area There are no days off for Steph Curry. Even on, quite literally, a day off. The Warriors star joined actor Bradley Cooper on stage at the BottleRock Napa Valley festival on Saturday, where he stole the show at the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage. …

The Indiana Pacers face an insurmountable 3–0 series deficit in their Eastern Conference finals matchup with the Boston Celtics after Saturday’s heartbreaking 114–111 loss in Indianapolis. Indiana was without star Tyrese Haliburton, who was out with a hamstring injury, yet nearly pulled off a win over the Celtics with Andrew Nembhard scoring a career-high 32 points with nine assists. Unfortunately, …

Draymond claims NBA fine system hinders players’ financial success originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Draymond Green knows a thing or two about how the NBA fines its players. The Warriors veteran forward, according to Spotrac.com, has accumulated roughly $900,000 of fines throughout his 12-year NBA career, with suspensions costing him roughly $3.2 million (h/t CBS Sports). Green joined …

Report: Warriors’ Atkinson is ‘leader’ for Cavs’ head coach job originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Are changes coming to the Warriors’ coaching staff? Kenny Atkinson, one of head coach Steve Kerr’s top assistants, is the leading candidate for the Cleveland Cavaliers’ vacant head-coaching position, The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd reported Sunday. Still hearing Kenny Atkinson as leader for Cavs …

2024 SoFi Play-In Tournament – Golden State Warriors v Sacramento Kings Cleveland is a win-now team, making it a longshot that they would hire a rookie head coach to replace J.B. Bickerstaff. They want somebody who has sat in that chair before. Enter former Brooklyn Nets coach and current Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson, the early leader for the job reports …

After losing Game 3 in Dallas on Sunday, 116-107, the Minnesota Timberwolves find themselves down 3-0 to the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference finals despite being outscored by total of just 13 points across the entire series to this point.  To look at the numbers, you would think this has been an incredibly close series. And it has in …