Category: NBA DAILY
Josh Hart is the first New York Knicks player to score at least 40 points and grab over 25 rebounds across the first two playoff games of a postseason since Willis Reed in 1970. Hart is the first and only player in NBA history to average four or more made 3-pointers and at least 12 […]
The Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics have faced one another six times in the NBA playoffs since 2010, and the teams are now meeting for a seventh time. Each year they match up, the winner goes on to make the NBA Finals. In fact, a top-seeded team hasn’t advanced to the Finals since the […]
The Sacramento Kings lost 105-98 against the New Orleans Pelicans in Friday night’s play-in tournament, ending the regular season with 46 wins, the most by an NBA team to miss the playoffs since the Denver Nuggets in 2018. De’Aaron Fox scored a game-high 35 points on 12-of-29 (41.4%) shooting from the floor. Domantas Sabonis had […]
Chicago Bulls guard Alex Caruso suffered a “significant” left ankle sprain during the third quarter of Wednesday night’s 131-116 win over the Atlanta Hawks in the play-in tournament. Caruso, 30, did not return. He finished with six points on two 3-pointers and added two rebounds and two assists in 17 minutes of action. The seven-year […]
Jalen Brunson became the third New York Knicks player to post at least five straight 35-point games, joining Carmelo Anthony (six in a row) and Bernard King (five), in Thursday night’s 118-109 win over the Boston Celtics. Brunson, 27, tallied 35 points against the Sacramento Kings on April 4, then 35 points at Chicago on […]
The 2023-24 Detroit Pistons are 13-67 (.163) with just two games left of the regular season, meaning the team clinched the franchise’s worst record in its 76-year history. The 1979-80 Pistons went 16-66 (.195). Last season’s team finished 17-65 (.207). Detroit this season could finish dead last in the Eastern Conference standings, just below the […]
Atlanta Hawks forward Jalen Johnson (ankle) and Onyeka Okongwu (toe) are out indefinitely and will miss the Eastern Conference play-in tournament because of their injuries. Johnson, 22, will miss at least three weeks after spraining his right ankle Tuesday night against the Miami Heat. He missed six straight games last month after suffering an ankle […]
Brandon Miller has now scored 1,270 points through 73 games (67 starts) of his NBA career, the third-most points by a Charlotte Hornets rookie in franchise history. Only Larry Johnson (1,576) and Alonzo Mourning (1,639) scored more points during their rookie seasons. Miller, 21, passed Rex Chapman (1,267) for third most on the Hornets’ all-time […]
Tre Mann became the 12th Charlotte Hornets player to swipe seven steals in a single game, in Wednesday night’s 115-114 victory against the Atlanta Hawks. His seven steals are also a career high. Mann, 23, joined Eddie Jones (9), Kemba Walker (8), Jason Richardson (8), Gerald Wallace (8), Brevin Knight (8), Raymond Felton (7), Muggsy […]
Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young has recorded 36 point-assist double-doubles this NBA season, the third most in the league. Entering Tuesday’s game, only Tyrese Haliburton (42) and Luka Doncic (37) had more. In Atlanta’s 115-114 loss to the Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday night, Young returned after missing 23 games because of a torn ligament in […]
