Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat are headed to the Eastern Conference finals. Giannis Antetokounmpo could only watch. The fifth-seeded Heat finished off an upset of the NBA’s best regular-season team Tuesday, topping the Milwaukee Bucks 103-94 in Game 5 of their East semifinal series — ...
The game plan from Boston coach Brad Stevens was simple: Start things off with an increased effort on defense to set an immediate tone. The Celtics did exactly as he asked — and put the reigning NBA champions on the ropes. Jaylen Brown scored 27 points ...
The Heat still lead 3-1, but the Bucks — the best team in the regular season — are still alive.
Toronto's strong defensive efforts frustrated Boston just two days after OG Anunoby’s dramatic 3-pointer gave the reigning NBA champions a lifeline.
Heat rally in fourth quarter to take 3-0 series lead over Bucks
Jimmy Butler sent the ball out to Jae Crowder, then started celebrating before his teammate even took the shot. He knew what was about to happen. The Miami Heat did it again — and have the Milwaukee Bucks, the No. 1 overall seed in the NBA ...
The Toronto Raptors were a half-second away from falling into the abyss that no NBA team has ever escaped. Down by two points, down by two games, the reigning champions needed a miracle. OG Anunoby delivered. Anunoby caught a cross-court pass that Kyle Lowry threaded over ...
Steve Nash was one of the NBA's most entertaining point guards, the engineer of a high-scoring team that helped usher in a new era of basketball. Now the Brooklyn Nets want to see what he can do as a coach. The Nets hired Nash on Thursday, ...
Ja Morant wants someone to give him a big assist after running away with the Rookie of the Year award. Tell him the name of the lone voter not to put him first. "I want to shoot a direct message to them and thank them for ...
James Harden couldn't get his shot to fall all night, so the scorer turned stopper. In this wild Game 7 that took one strange turn after another in the final seconds, the biggest play came when a guy known almost entirely for his offense turned ...
Jamal Murray helped a heartbroken Donovan Mitchell off the floor for a handshake and hug, a show of respect between players who had a memorable battle in the bubble. They traded historic offensive fireworks for six games, before Game 7 turned into an old-fashioned defensive ...
Jimmy Butler kept hearing the same message from teammates in every conversation Monday night. "Win the game." He listened to them, and delivered. Butler scored 14 of his playoff career-high 40 points in the fourth quarter, Goran Dragic added 27 and the Heat clamped down defensively in ...
The Los Angeles Clippers knocked him around and shut his teammates down, and still Luka Doncic kept coming. Kawhi Leonard wasn't worried, because nothing rattles him in the postseason. "This is playoff basketball and everything is not going to go your way,” Leonard said. "You’re going ...
