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It was reminiscent of those games in a driveway when an older brother bullied his younger brother.

Knicks fans took over State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Thursday night.

The NBA trade deadline is one month away -- so where do we think Giannis, AD, Trae Young and others will be on Feb. 5?

The Cavaliers sent out an injured 26-year-old point guard to receive the 36-year-old Harden

On the heels of a dispiriting first-round exit, Nuggets star center Nikola Jokic didn’t express any reservations about continuing his career in Denver, writes Anthony Slater of ESPN. “I still want to be a Nugget forever,” Jokic said during his post-game media session following Thursday’s Game 6 loss to Minnesota. When asked if that means […]

Jalen Williams missed the first month of the season recovering from a wrist injury, too.

OG Anunoby scored 29 points in 27 minutes, Karl-Anthony Towns had his second triple-double of the series and the New York Knicks had their biggest playoff victory in franchise history, overwhelming and eliminating the Atlanta Hawks 140-89 in Game 6 on Thursday night. The Knicks broke several NBA records by halftime. Dyson Daniels and Mitchell Robinson were ejected after fighting following a pair of free throws from Anunoby that gave the Knicks a 50-point lead in the second quarter.

OG Anunoby entered this postseason as one of the league’s most invaluable supporting players.

There was an NCAA tournament game in 2016 when Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Mikal Bridges all were on the winning side of a historic blowout, a 44-point victory that is still the biggest in Final Four history. Fast forward a decade: Brunson, Hart and Bridges were all on the winning side of another historic postseason blowout Thursday night, this one coming when the New York Knicks beat the Atlanta Hawks by 51 points to advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals.

When the Los Angeles Lakers traded for Luke Kennard, it was widely seen as a marginal move given the roster could have used more two-way players instead. The Lakers flipped Gabe Vincent’s expiring contract for Kennard’s, but the move has paid off in spades as the sharpshooting veteran has given the offense a major shot […]

A strong game from Mitchell would go a long way in securing Cleveland’s place in the second round.

With the NBA trade deadline now just over a month away, there seems to be an increasing level of interest around the league in the availability of, and potential market for, Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr.