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The LA Clippers are the 8-seed after tonight's win and Golden State's loss. Both teams are 32-32. Clippers have the current head-to-head tiebreaker (2-1). They meet on the final day of the regular season.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Alton Hamilton IV scored a career-high 25 points, Isaiah Moses added 22 and Eastern Washington held off Weber State 84-79 on Monday night in a Big Sky Conference Tournament quarterfinal. No. 3 seed Eastern Washington (14-18) will play seventh-seeded Idaho in a Tuesday semifinal. The Vandals beat the Eagles twice, including in the regular-season finale to end EWU's eight-game winning streak. Top seed Portland State plays fourth-seeded Montana in the other semifinal. Hamilto...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Orlando Lovejoy had 21 points and Lance Stone came off the bench to score 16, leading Detroit Mercy to a 70-64 victory over Robert Morris on Monday night in a Horizon League Tournament semifinal. No. 3 seed Detroit Mercy (17-14) will play top-seeded Wright State in the championship game on Tuesday with an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament on the line. Lovejoy made 5 of 14 shots and 11 of 12 free throws for the Titans, adding six assists. Stone sank 6 of 12 shots with ...

Kawhi Leonard scored 29 points, Bennedict Mathurin added 28 points, and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the New York Knicks 126-118 on Monday night to climb back to .500 for the first time since early November. The Clippers are 32-32 and have won five of their first six games in March as they try to improve their potential position in the NBA Play-in Tournament. It was Leonard's 42nd straight game with 20-plus points, the second-longest active streak in the NBA and third-longest in team history.

Ever since news about the Kawhi Leonard-Aspiration saga made the rounds, the Los Angeles Clippers have been said to be looking at major punishment once the NBA concludes its investigation on the matter. The accusation is that the Clippers owner Steve Ballmer used a ‘no-show’ endorsement deal with Aspiration to pay Leonard an extra compensation […] The post Max Kellerman argues Clippers shouldn’t face harsh Kawhi Leonard punishment appeared first on ClutchPoints .

Warriors center Kristaps Porzingis is optimistic he’ll be able to play more often to close the 2025/26 season, writes Anthony Slater of ESPN. After missing six games because of an illness, the Latvian big man returned to action on Saturday against Oklahoma City, finishing with nine points, five rebounds, five assists and a block in […]

Reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander made sure the race for this year's award was pretty much a wrap with a game-winning shot against the Nuggets.

Brice Sensabaugh scored 21 points, two-way player Blake Hinson made the go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute, and the depleted Utah Jazz outlasted the ailing Golden State Warriors 119-116 on Monday night. Hinson made four 3-pointers including a shot from beyond the arc on the right wing with 29.9 seconds remaining to shock the Warriors, who were without Stephen Curry and several other rotation regulars. De’Anthony Melton, who led the Warriors with 22 points, made a 3-pointer to cut the lead...

The Warriors failed to replicate the effort from the opening two games of their road trip and will return home with a sour taste in their mouths after a bad loss to the Jazz.

The Lakers got big performances from multiple players in Sunday’s win over the Knicks, including Deandre Ayton.

Bennedict Mathurin is 1-for-his-last-20 on 3s and 6-for-40 overall in his time with the Clippers.

Through the first 30:19 of this game, all 64 points by the New York Knicks have come from their starters. New York’s bench is a combined 0-for-11 from the field and 0-for-8 on 3s while going scoreless.

Hardaway totaled 28 points (10-16 FG, 8-12 3Pt, 0-2 FT), two rebounds and two assists in 33 minutes during Monday's 129-126 loss to the Thunder. Visit RotoWire.com for more analysis on this update.

Timing is important in the NBA. Teams that are and aren’t playoff-bound are fairly easy to discern after about 20 to 30 regular-season games. Who is and isn’t a contender is also largely well known by about the same point. There’s jostling for seeding and homecourt advantage, but what’s important for teams looking to make […]

Draymond Green bodied Kawhi Leonard. He kept up with Kevin Durant. Chased Shae Gilgous-Alexander.

Graham Ike had 24 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 12 Gonzaga to a 65-56 victory over Oregon State on Monday night and put the Bulldogs in the West Coast Conference Tournament championship game for the 29th straight time. Gonzaga (29-3) will play No. 21 Saint Mary's or Santa Clara in the title game. It will be the Zags' last WCC championship before heading to the Pac-12 Conference next season.

Conference USA will not take any action after a UTEP fan grabbed a chair and waved it toward Jacksonville State players, saying UTEP will handle any discipline.

Multiple reports say Bobby Hurley and Arizona State are expected to part ways after 11 seasons. The school says those reports are 'premature.'

The March 10, 2026, contest between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Los Angeles Lakers serves as a critical barometer for the Western Conference as the 2025-26 NBA regular season approaches its final month. This matchup, set within the iconic Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, is not merely a meeting of two playoff-bound franchises but a symbolic clash of differing basketball philosophies and the epicenter of the league's newly transformed media rights landscape. As both teams vie for home-c...

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Lu Dort and Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic collided again on Monday. Dort previously sparked an uproar on Wednesday with a flagrant foul. Lightning struck twice in the rematch. Dort swings the back of his forearm into Jokic’s face. The Thunder guard got slapped with a brand new flagrant foul called. […] The post Thunder’s Lu Dort hit with flagrant foul after blatant hit on Nikola Jokic appeared first on ClutchPoints .

The Oklahoma City Thunder were missing a slew of key guys on Monday night in another high-intensity clash against the Denver Nuggets. They were without Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren, Isaiah Hartenstein, and Alex Caruso, just to name a few. But as long as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is on the court, the Thunder remain close to impossible […] The post Watch Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander pull for wild game-winning 3 vs. Nuggets appeared first on ClutchPoints .

CLEVELAND — Random dribbles from the Cavaliers’ 115-101 fairly easy home win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday. 1. That is what you’re supposed to do against an undermanned opponent in your building. You’re supposed to cruise. 2. So kudos to the Cavs for taking care of business on a night in which everything was […] The post Dribbles: Cavs take ‘professional’ approach, handle business to top Sixers appeared first on Hoops Wire .

Steve Kerr spoke from personal experience while providing a workable solution for the ongoing injury issues around the league.

NEW YORK (AP) — Day'Ron Sharpe matched a season high with 19 points, Ochai Agbaji added 18 and the Brooklyn Nets beat the injury-plagued Memphis Grizzlies 126-115 on Monday night for their second straight victory. Nolan Traore added 17 points for the Nets, who were coming off an improbable 107-105 win at Eastern Conference-leading Detroit on Saturday night that snapped a 10-game skid. The Nets, who rested leading scorer Michael Porter Jr., had six players score in double figures. The Grizzlie...

After 13 grueling months rehabilitating a ruptured right Achilles tendon, Dejounte Murray’s return to the New Orleans Pelicans lineup has provided an unmistakable spark. The All-Star has injected new life into a locker room that had been searching for an identity throughout the season. James Borrego and Zion Williamson are two of many within the […] The post Pelicans’ Dejounte Murray opens up on major challenge amid return from injury appeared first on ClutchPoints .

While Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green is undoubtedly a future Hall of Famer, he will also be remembered for his on-court antics, one of which was the infamous chokehold he put longtime nemesis Rudy Gobert in. The incident garnered plenty of attention at the time, and still does. But during a recent appearance on […] The post Draymond Green admits he didn’t realize how long Rudy Gobert chokehold lasted appeared first on ClutchPoints .