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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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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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5 Most Important Things on the 2015-2016 NBA Regular Season Finale
A lot of teams are heading into the final day of the 2015-2016 NBA regular season without too much to play for. But there are those with some interest in their closing game. Like the Golden State Warriors, for obvious reasons. Like the Los Angeles Lakers, for Kobe Bryant reasons. Like the Houston Rockets & Utah Jazz, hoping to make it into the playoffs. And a few more, with less important things on their mind.
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Remaining NBA Playoff Scenarios (April 12)
As we approach the final two days of the NBA regular season, very few things are left to sort out. The final playoff spot in the West between the Houston Rockets and Utah Jazz, the 3-4-5-6 seeding in the East between the Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets and Atlanta Hawks, and something similar in the West between the Portland Trail Blazers, Memphis Grizzlies and Dallas Mavericks.
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NBA Rumors – Dallas Mavericks & Houston Rockets Stepping Up, Utah Jazz Crash & Burn
Things change quickly in the Western Conference playoff picture. The Dallas Mavericks were on the path to clinching one of the two remaining spots and completed the job. The Houston Rockets remembered how to win in money time and the Utah Jazz showed a distinct symptom of loser-ism, which might leave them out of the postseason.
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NBA Rumors – Utah Jazz Deserve Playoff Spot More Than Houston Rockets & Dallas Mavericks
Besides teams playing good basketball, there’s something appealing about a well-run basketball organization. There’s no one right way to build an NBA team, but when considering that factor into who to root for in the Western Conference playoff race, the Utah Jazz deserve one of the two remaining spots over the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks.
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Remaining NBA Playoff Scenarios (April 11)
Most NBA teams have two games left before the end of the regular season and the playoffs begin. Here are the possible playoff scenarios for the teams involved in trying to make the playoffs (Dallas Mavericks, Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets) and those in positional and seeding battles (Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Atlanta Hawks), as all […]
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NBA Playoffs – Raptors & Mavericks Have a Good Day, Bad Day for Jazz, Heat & Grizzlies
While some things are already set in stone in this NBA season regarding the final standings and the NBA playoffs, there are teams battling for positions or even making it. For the Dallas Mavericks, Wednesday night was a very good one, as it was for the Toronto Raptors. Not so much for the Utah Jazz, Memphis Grizzlies and Miami Heat.