The Knicks are either a powerhouse team just starting to come in to its own and ready to obliterate inferior competition in the first two rounds of the playoffs before giving Miami all it can handle in the Eastern Conference finals.
With baseball season rolling, the Bruins near the top of the standings and Patriots talk helping fill what’s left of the sports talk vacuum, the Celtics have taken a back seat in Boston.
Denver’s 15-game winning streak came to an end 2½ weeks ago, and since that unexpected defeat in New Orleans the Nuggets have been dealing with injuries to their two key players.
Did beating Miami and ending the Heat’s 27-game winning streak take too much out of the Chicago Bulls?
The NBA is no country for old men. All around the league 30-plus veterans are limping as they approach the finish line and a playoff season that provides decent rest between games (thanks, TV).
Eight games left in the regular season and the Denver Nuggets are pretty much fat and happy as they ready for the playoffs.
It doesn’t have to be a standing O. You can remain seated, at least until his Knicks win a few playoff series. But doesn’t Mike Woodson deserve at least a polite golf-crowd round of applause for what he’s done with the Knicks this season?
By all rights the Utah Jazz should be deader than a lizard buried in the Utah desert.
Are the Memphis Grizzlies the most ignored good team in the NBA? The Grizz this season are on a pace to win 54 games, and to put that in perspective, if a major league baseball team won at the same pace, it would finish the season with 107 wins.
Three into one. That’s what it has come down to in the Western Conference’s battle for the last playoff spot.
Step right up, Chicago Bulls. You’re next. Twenty-seven straight and counting for the Miami Heat, who publically claim that they are not all that interested in breaking the NBA record of 33 (set by the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers).
The New Orleans Hornets/Pelicans? Giants-killers? New Orleans destroyed the Nuggets off the boards Sunday night and put an end to Denver’s winning streak which had hit 15 games, the younger brother to Miami’s 27-game run.
The theory being floated in Boston goes like this. Since you have to beat Miami to get to The Finals, do it this way:
1. Forget about seeding and rest your top players.
A dozen games left and here’s what the Los Angeles Clippers have:
1. No worse than a 4 seed in the Western Conference playoffs (division winners can’t be seeded lower than 4th, and the Clippers have an 8-game lead in the Pacific.
Mike D’Antoni is mad. Mad at his players, mad at himself, mad at his assistant coaches. Just plain, seeing-red mad.
Left for dead in a gully by the side of Interstate 20 in Dallas, the Mavericks somehow have managed to play their way back into the Western Conference playoff conversation.
