The National Basketball Association is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams and is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.
Chris Bosh hasn't suited up for the Miami Heat since early February, missing the last 37 games after pulling out of the All-Star Game amid concerns related to another round of the frightening blood-clotting problems that prematurely ended his 2014-15 season.
The Cavaliers arguably looked more like a fully fledged No. 1 seed in the first round against the Detroit Pistons than they did at any point during the regular season.
Before Sunday's do-or-die Game 7 against the C-harlotte Hornets, ABC's cameras captured Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade seeming to be overcome by emotion during the singing of the national anthem:
Striking a healthy scoring balance has never been a strength for Kevin Durant or Russell Westbrook.
With Hornets head coach Steve Clifford electing to go big in his starting lineup by using veteran Al Jefferson and rookie Frank Kaminsky, much of C-harlotte’s scoring in the second unit fell on the shoulders of Lin and the Harvard graduate did not disappoint, finishing with a team-high 18 points, four rebounds and four assists in 26 minutes off the bench.
There are a lot of things that aren’t Tim Duncan’s “deal,” and plenty of things that aren’t his “style.”
Kyrie Irving scored 31 points, Kevin Love and LeBron James scored 28 and 22, respectively, and the Cleveland Cavaliers held off the feisty Detroit Pistons, 106-101, at Quicken Loans Arena on Sunday afternoon to take a 1-0 lead in their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series.