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Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has won the 2022-23 NBA MVP award. After consecutive years as runner-up, the six-time All-Star received 73 first-place votes, 25 second-place votes, two third-place votes, and 915 total points. Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets finished second. Jokic received 15 first-place votes, 52 second-place votes, 32 third-place votes, and 674 […]
The Golden State Warriors won 120-100 in Game 7 over the Sacramento Kings this past Sunday — and this matchup averaged 9.8 million viewers on ABC, making it the most-watched NBA Playoffs first-round game in 24 years. Since 2015, Stephen Curry has been featured in 32 out of 33 games with at least 13 million […]
NBA Twitter users were quick to mock Philadelphia 76ers superstar James Harden for his pregame outfit, prior to Monday night’s 119-115 upset win in Game 1 over the Boston Celtics at TD Garden. Harden was shown wearing an oversized jacket and long, baggy pants with blue fur covering the outside. NBA fans compared the 10-time […]
Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets is the fifth player in NBA history to record three or more straight playoff games with at least 20 points, 15 rebounds, and five assists. Tim Duncan logged five such consecutive playoff games from May 10-27 in 2003. Wilt Chamberlain registered four such postseason outings from April 11-17 in […]
Philadelphia 76ers guard James Harden tied his playoff career high with 45 points against the Boston Celtics in Monday night’s 119-115 upset win in Game 1 of the second round of the 2023 NBA Playoffs. It was Harden’s first 45-point playoff outing since Game 4 of the 2015 Western Conference Finals versus the Golden State […]
Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler (right ankle sprain) has been downgraded to questionable for Tuesday night’s Game 2 second-round matchup against the New York Knicks of the 2023 NBA Playoffs. “We’re just playing great basketball,” Butler said in a postgame interview after suffering his injury in the fourth quarter of Game 1. “We’re together, at […]
LeBron James and Stephen Curry combined for 60,364 career regular season points, the second most by opposing players entering any playoff series in NBA history. They only trail the matchup of James and Carmelo Anthony (60,687 points) in the first round of the 2020 NBA Playoffs. In the Golden State Warriors’ 120-100 series-clinching first-round win […]
Philadelphia 76ers center and projected MVP winner Joel Embiid (right knee) is doubtful for Monday night’s Game 1 matchup against the Boston Celtics in the second round of the 2023 NBA Playoffs. Monday morning, the six-time All-Star underwent platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections on his injured right LCL. Embiid suffered this injury in Game 3 of […]
Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat is the fifth player in NBA history to record at least 25 points on 50% shooting through six straight games of a postseason, joining LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Bernard King, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (twice). In Miami’s 108-101 second-round win over the New York Knicks in Game 1 of the […]
De’Aaron Fox of the Sacramento Kings has scored 20 or more points in each of his first six playoff games, tying Oscar Robertson for the longest streak to begin a career in franchise history. In Sacramento’s 118-99 first-round win over the Golden State Warriors in Game 6 of the 2023 NBA Playoffs, the All-Star guard […]
