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With the 2014 NCAA Tournament’s opening rounds set to begin, Yannis Koutroupis relates his latest full 2014 NBA Mock Draft.
BOSTON – Don’t look now, but the Philadelphia 76ers have won two of their last four games. No big deal, you say? Well, when you consider they had dropped 26 straight games before going on this mini-.500 run, this is news. “We’re on a roll,” coach Brett Brown quipped after his team rode rookie guard […]
Basketball Insiders looks back at some of the articles from the past week in case you missed them the first time around.
WASHINGTON — Guard John Wall scored 33 points and forward Drew Gooden added 21 as the Washington Wizards rallied for a 101-94 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday. Guard Bradley Beal added 15 points for the Wizards (34-32), who trailed by 10 points early in the final period, but closed the game with a […]
DALLAS — For the second time in nine days, the Dallas Mavericks sent the Oklahoma City Thunder a message just in case the teams meet in the first round of the playoffs. Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki had 32 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and four steals in a turn-back-the-clock performance that turned away Kevin Durant […]
Ben Nadeau discusses a decade of picks at No. 9 overall.
ST. LOUIS — Make it 19 in a row for the Atlantic 10 Conference’s runaway front-runner. Guard Jordair Jett scored 16 points and No. 10 Saint Louis clamped down on George Washington during the last nine minutes on Saturday night for a 66-59 win. Center Rob Loe tacked on 12 points for the Billikens (25-2, […]
STANFORD, Calif. — No. 1 Arizona came back from a seven-point, second-half deficit on Wednesday to beat Stanford 60-57 and remain unbeaten. Guard Nick Johnson scored 16 points and hit most of the key shots for the Wildcats (21-0, 8-0 Pac-12). He made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 49 seconds to go, then hit two clutch […]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — After trailing for much of the game, Florida mounted a tense rally that concluded with five foul shots by center Patric Young and guard Scottie Wilbekin in the final 20 seconds, and the Gators held off Auburn’s upset bid, 71-66, on Wednesday night. “We’ve been in situations like this before,” Young said. […]
PHOENIX — Guard Goran Dragic scored 18 of his 32 points in the first quarter and the Phoenix Suns combined 14 3-pointers with 26 fast-break points to rout the New York Knicks 112-88 on Friday night. Guard Eric Bledsoe and forward Markieff Morris added 16 points each for the Suns, who have won a season-high […]