Category: NBA News Wire
SAN ANTONIO — After San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich received his third NBA Coach of the Year trophy on Tuesday, his counterpart with the Dallas Mavericks, Rick Carlisle, suggested that the award hardly seemed sufficient. “Why don’t we just give him Coach of the Century?” Carlisle said Wednesday. “He’s the greatest.” Carlisle was pretty good himself […]
MIAMI — Forward LeBron James scored 32 points to lead the Miami Heat to a hard-fought 101-97 playoff victory over the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday night at AmericanAirlines Arena. The Heat lead the best-of-seven first-round Eastern Conference playoff series 2-0. Game 3 will be played Saturday at Charlotte. There were seven lead changes early in […]
Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel, despite a 56-win season that secured the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, is “coaching for his job,” ESPN.com reported Wednesday. Following Indiana’s 101-85 triumph over Atlanta in Game 2 of the teams’ first-round playoff series, sources told ESPN.com that coming back to win the series against the Hawks […]
Phoenix Suns guard Goran Dragic, who helped lead the team to a 23-win improvement while establishing career highs in scoring and field goal percentage, was named the 2013-14 NBA Most Improved Player on Wednesday. The annual award is presented to a player who has made a significant improvement from the previous season. Collecting 408 of […]
TORONTO — After shooting just 3-for-13 from the field and being held to 14 points in Toronto’s loss last Saturday, Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan went back and watched the Game 1 tape multiple times. “I’m a student of this game, DeRozan said. “I went back and watched the whole game two or three times and […]
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Pacers needed just six and a half minutes Tuesday to drive home their point. A 19-0 run over that time led the Pacers to a dominating 101-85 victory over the Atlanta Hawks to tie their best-of-seven, first-round series at one, vividly producing images of how the Pacers ran over opponents early […]
By Dhiren Mahiban TORONTO — Guard DeMar DeRozan had 15 of his game-high 28 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Toronto Raptors to a 100-95 victory over the Brooklyn Nets in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series at Air Canada Centre Tuesday night. The win, Toronto’s first postseason victory since April 24, […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Forward Paul George and the Indiana Pacers answered their doubters on Tuesday night. George scored a game-high 27 points and the Pacers defeated the Atlanta Hawks 101-85 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse to tie their best-of-seven first-round playoff series at one game each. Game 3 will be played Thursday night at Atlanta’s Phillips Arena. […]
The Golden State Warriors agreed to terms Tuesday with Salesforce.com to purchase land in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood, where the team intends to build a new arena. “We believe Mission Bay is a perfect fit,” Joe Lacob, co-executive chairman and CEO of the Warriors said in a statement. “It is a wonderful inland site […]
LOS ANGELES — Forward Blake Griffin scored 35 points, leading the Los Angeles Clippers to a 138-98 blowout of the Golden State Warriors in Game 2 of the Western Conference quarterfinals Monday night at Staples Center. Griffin connected on 13 of 17 shots from the field and nine of 10 free throws. He also had […]
