NBA Finals

Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors beat the Boston Celtics in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night. The series is now tied up at 1-1 heading into ...

- SHOULD THE BUCKS MAKE A TRADE? The Milwaukee Bucks lost Game 7 to the Boston Celtics, which officially ended their 2021-22 NBA season in the second-round. They have also won three titles in that time span, so Curry and the Warriors have much more experience than the Celtics. Curry and the Warriors are in their sixth Finals in just the last eight seasons.

You don't just let Tatum walk into open 3s. That play, however, was an anomaly. It represented just about the only easy points that Boston scored during the ...

This is the mindset that Green wants to carry forward with the series shifting to Boston. The matchup advantages that the Celtics exploited a few days ago have not disappeared, and they have bounced back from much worse in these playoffs. Payton, who played 25 minutes in his first game back from the fractured elbow he suffered in the first week of May in the second game of the second round, said that Golden State was "kind of soft in the first game." They're both completely correct, but it's hard to do all of that with Wiggins and Payton applying pressure on the perimeter, Green roaming everywhere and everybody else moving on a string. "All they need to see is one shot go in, and it can start a domino effect." When Golden State's defense is at its best, it appears to be a step ahead of the offense at all times. What Boston did in the second half, you know, fourth quarter the other night, we knew we had to come with a much better focus and sense of aggression, and I thought that started right from the beginning. "Game 1 was too easy for Boston with the looks they were getting in that fourth quarter." Tatum and Brown accounted for 36 of the Celtics' 50 points before halftime, and Derrick White was their only teammate who had made more than one field goal. Multiple Warriors, however, stressed that this was possible because of the way the game started. Their offense looked nowhere near as smooth as it did when they were dominating down the stretch of Thursday's opener. When the Celtics pulled their starters with 10:45 left in Game 2 of the NBA Finals, they had scored 82.1 points per 100 possessions. It was a clean look off of a simple pick-and-roll, surrendered because the Golden State Warriors messed up their defensive coverage.

Game 3 is Wednesday in Boston. Quin Snyder has resigned as coach of the Utah Jazz, ending an eight-year run in which the team won nearly 60% of its games but ...

Kelly hit his approach to 4 feet on the par-4 18th to set up the winning putt. Winning pitcher Zach Thompson worked the first five innings and combined with four relievers on a five-hitter. Logano moved ahead of Busch for good just before the white flag flew, giving Team Penske its second major win of the day. A number of Rays players decided not to wear rainbow-colored logos on their uniforms as part of the team’s annual “Pride Night” on Saturday that recognized the LGBTQ community. Will Smith sparked the Dodgers’ ninth-inning rally with a homer and Eddy Alvarez tied it with a two-out RBI single. San Diego took the last three games of the four-game set despite Kolton Wong’s two home runs for Milwaukee. Juan Yepez singled home automatic runner Nolan Gorman to lead off the 11th before Brendan Donovan doubled in an insurance run. The game-winner came on a pass from Nikita Kucherov, who had a goal and two assists. Bergeron led the league in faceoff wins and winning percentage and had the best puck possession numbers among players who skated at least 50 games. Golden State broke it open by outscoring the Celtics 35-14 in the third period en route to a 107-88 win against Boston, tying the NBA Finals at a game apiece. Colorado owns a 3-0 series lead over the Oilers. Kucherov sparked the Lightning comeback with a power-play goal 66 seconds after Kreider’s tally.

If there's one thing we've learned over the first two games of the NBA Finals, it's that both teams are capable of going on runs to completely bury their ...

“Alas, a calculator cannot account for one other element of the equation: The possibility of a players’ strike looms, as threatening to the season as a pin pressed to a balloon. Though the strike did halt the season on Aug. 11, O’Neill played his way out of the race for .400 long before that. - Colorado: Jay Howell. He pitched for 15 years as a relief pitcher in the majors (1980 to ’94) with seven teams. With so many challenges to the game’s hallmarks, wouldn’t it be wonderful if just one of them was successful? Orioles closer Lee Smith was on pace to break the record for saves. The Blue Jays’ Joe Carter was racking up RBIs at a rate that would challenge Hack Wilson’s single-season record of 190. - Wisconsin: Harvey Kuenn. He played 15 seasons with the Tigers, Giants, Cubs, Phillies and Cleveland (1952 to ’66), earning eight All-Star selections and the ’53 Rookie of the Year. Kuenn played shortstop early in his career and outfield later. Golden State outscored Boston 35–14 in the third quarter of Game 2 en route to a 107–88 win that evened the series at a game apiece. Rohan Nadkarni notes that there was a huge disparity in the number of catch-and-shoot threes Boston got last night, compared to in Game 1. A Sports Illustrated article from October of that year laid out the challenges facing the school’s “once proud athletic program.” Syracuse finished third in the 1961 College World Series, but the program was discontinued after the ’72 season. Starting the second half on the right foot will be an emphasis for the Celtics in Game 3 at home, Mannix writes:

With two games in the books, we take a look at three NBA Finals bets that could net a payday.

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