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The Celtics host the Charlotte Hornets for the first of 3 games between them this season.

Former NBA champion J.R. Smith explains which team would win between 2016 Cavaliers and 2020 Lakers.

The Rookie of the Year talk has started, and the conversation has been centered around Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel, and VJ Edgecombe. That doesn’t take away from what other rookies are doing around the league, as there are some who are genuinely playing well. One of those rookies is Dylan Harper. Chandler Parsons recently showed […] The post Former player insists Spurs’ Dylan Harper is on the same level with Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel appeared first on ClutchPoints .

La’Nya Foster scored 18 points and grabbed eight rebounds, Erica Moon added 17 points, and Georgia Tech defeated Florida State 72-60 in a first-round game at the ACC Tournament on Wednesday. The Yellow Jackets led for all but 2 minutes but didn't put the game away until a 9-2 run late in the fourth quarter gave them a 70-56 lead. Talayah Walker had 16 points and seven rebounds for Georgia Tech (14-17), the No. 11 seed.

Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg appeared to be the frontrunner for this season’s Rookie of the Year award after he scored 49 points against Charlotte on January 29 in his first NBA meeting with Kon Knueppel. However, that was no longer the case by the time the two teams faced one another again on Tuesday, writes […]

FOX Sports' Michael Cohen dives deep into 10 men's basketball teams on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament.

A packed NBA arena somewhere far from Los Angeles, and out of the tunnel walks the most recognizable basketball player on the planet wearing your team’s jersey.

With the WNBA season supposed to be starting up in a few days, the lack of a signed Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) pretty much ensures that it will be starting late - and possibly shut out for a while. But things are allegedly going from bad to worse for the players. The WNBA is in a heated ...

Shay Ciezki had 22 points and seven assists, Nevaeh Caffey scored nine of her 13 in the fourth quarter, and No. 13 seed Indiana overcame a 20-point deficit to beat Nebraska 72-69 on Wednesday in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. Indiana (18-14) has won four in a row and is 7-2 following its 0-10 start in Big Ten play. No. 12 seed Nebraska (18-12) has lost seven of its last nine games and may have seen its NCAA Tournament bubble burst.

The WNBA and its players are currently in the middle of a significant collective bargaining agreement negotiation. It doesn't appear to be going well. Both WNBA stars Kelsey Plum and Breanna Stewart have raised concerns to the WNBA Players Association regarding how negotiations are being handled. ...

Kerr's contract with the Warriors ends when the season ends, but nobody is too stressed about it.

Phoenix Suns veteran Devin Booker says that the team has its sights set on making the playoffs (trail the Los Angeles Lakers by two games for the 6th seed out West). (via NBA on NBC): “We’re kinda a first-year team, so we’re trying not to make the same mistakes that we made before the All-Star […] The post Devin Booker: We don’t want to be in the play-in appeared first on TalkBasket.net .

The NBA officially named Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson the Eastern Conference Coach of the Month for February on Tuesday, marking the third time in his career that he’s won the award and the first time he’s earned the honor this season. Atkinson is only the third coach in Cavs franchise history to accomplish […] The post How Kenny Atkinson became third Cavs coach to earn distinct honor appeared first on ClutchPoints .

LeBron James prefers Game 7s away from home, according to his agent and business partner, Rich Paul.

Olivia Hamlin scored 16 points, Delaney Gibb and Lara Rohkohl each had 15, and Sydney Benally added 14 as BYU beat Houston 76-66 in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday. After winning its first Big 12 Tournament game in its third season as a conference member, ninth-seeded BYU (21-10) will play eighth-seeded Utah in the second round Thursday. BYU outshot 16th-seeded Houston 47% to 31% but had to overcome 22 turnovers and didn't have the game in hand until the final minutes.

Does defense really win championships? A good defense is important, but in the modern NBA, where spacing, pace, and shot-making dominate — elite offense has increasingly become a prerequisite to be a true title contender. Consider the last three champions.…

The NBA fined Jaylon Tyson for exaggerating just a little too much.

Shaquille O’Neal played 19 seasons for six franchises, won four championships, and had his jersey retired by three different organizations. The early years were defined ...

A brawl between South Alabama and Coastal Carolina in the women's Sun Belt Tournament on Wednesday left eight players ejected and knocked a referee to the ground where she required medical attention.

In an excellent profile, Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic explores the journey Bones Hyland has taken to end up with the Timberwolves, detailing the tragic 2018 fire that burned down Hyland’s childhood home and took the lives of his grandmother and 11-month-old cousin. Hyland, who jumped out of a second-floor window to safety, tore the […]

Golden State Warriors forward and podcaster Draymond Green weighed in on the conversation about Steph Curry being shut down for the rest of the season so the Warriors can tank. Curry suffered a right knee injury on January 30 in a matchup against the red-hot Detroit Pistons; that didn’t appear to be serious, and the […] The post Draymond Green addresses calls to shut down Stephen Curry and tank appeared first on ClutchPoints .

Toronto lacks veterans, true playoff vets who’ve been around the block, and that’s becoming more apparent the later it gets in the season.

It's not out of the realm of possibility that Sophie Cunningham and many other WNBA players is left without a league to play in this year as the season opener approaches without a new collective bargaining agreement in sight. But while Cunningham has no intentions of retiring from pro basketball ...

DII men's basketball program Nova Southeastern became just the second team in NCAA college basketball history to win 100 straight on its home court.

The Houston Cougars enter this matchup as one of the premier forces in college basketball, currently holding the No. 7 spot in the AP Poll with an overall record of 24-5. Their 12-4 conference record positions them near the apex of the Big 12 standings, trailing only the No. 2 Arizona Wildcats. Houston's season has been characterized by a stifling defensive identity that allows just 62.3 points per game, the best mark in the conference and one of the top ratings nationally. Despite a brief th...

Warriors center Kristaps Porzingis reaches important milestone in his return from illness.

Jalen Suggs has been through a lot of ups and downs throughout his NBA career, but if one thing defines his career, its his resiliency, toughness, tenacity to b