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🏀Sunday playoff hoops🏀 Today’s slate features a quartet of pivotal Game 4 matchups. Stars arrive✨ Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, and Cade Cunningham arrived earlier this morning at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Each is certain to be essential to their respective team’s success this afternoon when the action tips off at 1 ET on ABC. […]

  THE LINEUP 🏀 April 27, 2025 | What’s inside today’s edition? Gordon’s Game-Winner: AG ties series with a dunk unlike any in the play-by-play era  Steph Finds Stroke: After slow start, Curry leads Butler-less Dubs to 2-1 lead  OKC Advances, Cavs Up 3-0: Thunder punch 1st semis ticket on SGA’s 38 ABC Doubleheader: Lakers

  THE LINEUP 🏀 April 27, 2025 | What’s inside today’s edition? Gordon’s Game-Winner: AG ties series with a dunk unlike any in the play-by-play era  Steph Finds Stroke: After slow start, Curry leads Butler-less Dubs to 2-1 lead  OKC Advances, Cavs Up 3-0: Thunder punch 1st semis ticket on SGA’s 38 ABC Doubleheader: Lakers

Doubt and uncertainty fueled criticism around Jayson Tatum for a large part of his 7-year career, with numerous postseasons ending in “What if?”. Many questioned whether the 6-foot-8 forward from Duke had what it took to lead a team to an NBA championship. That was until the conclusion of the 2023-2024 NBA season. Tatum shares

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had a game-high 38 points in Saturday’s series close-out win for OKC vs Memphis. Editor’s Note: Read more NBA coverage from The Athletic here. The views on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the NBA or its teams.  *** MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Before breaking through in the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 117-115, series-clinching Game 4

Aaron Gordon reacts after beating the Clippers on the road with a game-winner as time expires in Game 4. LOS ANGELES — A 48-minute game with plenty of drama and big plays and intensity needed three more minutes before it was decided. That’s when Zach Zarba, the lead official, grabbed the courtside mic and told

Aaron Gordon talks after beating the Clippers on the road with a game-winner as time expires in Game 4 at Intuit Dome. A reminder on The Horry Scale: It breaks down a game-winning buzzer-beater (GWBB) in the categories of difficulty, game situation (was the team tied or behind at the time?), importance (playoff game or

Ramona ShelburneApr 26, 2025, 09:09 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News INGLEWOOD, Calif. — After every game, Aaron Gordon spends 20 minutes at his locker icing a right calf injury that has hindered him all season. For one of the NBA’s highest fliers, it has

Tim MacMahonApr 26, 2025, 02:13 PM ET Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Memphis Grizzlies superstar Ja Morant has been ruled out for Saturday’s Game 4 against the Oklahoma City Thunder due to a left hip contusion. The Grizzlies were relieved

Darius Garland tallied 21 points and nine assists in Cleveland’s Game 2 win over Miami. MIAMI (AP) — All-Star guard Darius Garland was ruled out by the Cleveland Cavaliers for Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round series Saturday against the Miami Heat because of a sprained left big toe. Garland aggravated the injury late