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NBA Playoffs – Teams & Their Rookies
You’ll find 0 rookies leading a team into the playoffs this season and very few actually playing a significant parts for the postseason teams. Norman Powell for the Toronto Raptors, Myles Turner for the Indiana Pacers, Josh Richardson for the Miami Heat and Justin Anderson on the Dallas Mavericks slightly break the perception, but not by much.
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NBA April 16 Playoff Predictions
The NBA Playoffs begin with four series opening on Saturday: Defending NBA champions, Golden State Warriors, hosting the Houston Rockets; Toronto Raptors at home vs the Indiana Pacers; Oklahoma City Thunder visited by the Dallas Mavericks; and the very intriguing series between the Boston Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks.
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Jeremy Lin – Building a Playoff Legacy
For the fourth time in his NBA career, Jeremy Lin has helped a team into the NBA playoffs. With the Charlotte Hornets he has a shot at expanding his so far very limited postseason repertoire, although it obviously has a lot to do with which side of the bed Steve Clifford and partially Kemba Walker wake up on.
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NBA Rumors – Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers Help Kobe Bryant Cement His Ball Hog Legacy
Whatever the circumstances, a player who is four months away from his 38th birthday scoring 60 points is impressive. The way Kobe Bryant has been playing this season for the Los Angeles Lakers, anytime he scores over 25 points is something of an achievement. After one final year in a downward spiral that included getting called old, washed up and the cause for the franchise being in its current situation, Bryant got the goodbye he was looking for.
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NBA Rumors – Warriors Depend on Stephen Curry First; Draymond Green Comes Second
With the number 73 waiting for them on the finish line, the Golden State Warriors didn’t slow down or rest a bit before the NBA playoffs. They set Stephen Curry loose for one final time on his poor regular season victims, making it seem possible that they might also have the best postseason run in history.
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Jeremy Lin Starts & Sizzles, Al Jefferson Getting Better, Charlotte Hornets Stay Put
The Charlotte Hornets beat the Orlando Magic 117-103 to close out a fantastic regular season by their standards, starting Jeremy Lin instead of the injured Nicolas Batum and getting another fine performance from Al Jefferson off the bench, although all of that didn’t help them move up the Eastern Conference Standings, if they were even looking to do that.
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First Round NBA Playoffs Series Schedule
The end of the regular season is followed with a very short rest before the NBA playoffs begin on Saturday, April 16. Four first round series kick off that day: Pacers vs Raptors, Rockets vs Warriors, Celtics vs Hawks and Mavericks vs Thunder. On Sunday, April 17, the other four series join them in postseason […]
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18 Best Memes of the Los Angeles Lakers Saying Goodbye to Kobe Bryant
The most outlandish script writers in Hollywood wouldn’t have come up with the ending Kobe Bryant had to his NBA & Los Angeles Lakers career. Trashed all year in memes and everyone else for being old and bad, he dropped 60 points before actually dropping the mic as he left the Staples Building for the final time as an active player.
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NBA Final Night Scores & Standings
The NBA regular season ends with the Golden State Warriors breaking the record for wins in a regular season, Kobe Bryant playing his final game like he’s one of the best players on the planet again, and the Houston Rockets clinched their playoff spot while the Utah Jazz were left empty handed.
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Jeremy Lin Starting Finale, Charlotte Hornets Need to Aim Higher Through Him
The last time Jeremy Lin started for the Charlotte Hornets he played extremely well, and obviously got benched for the next one. This time, the opposite thing is happening. He played one heck of a game in Boston, and now gets to start in the regular season finale against the Orlando Magic, “thanks” to Nicolas Batum being injured, or simply resting.