New York’s 14 percent prayer
After averaging a limbotic 29.2 wins over the last five years, this season, finally, the Knicks bottomed out and finished with the worst...
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May 8, 20192 min read
This Rockets-Warriors series is what we needed
If you’re one of those people who thinks the NBA got significantly worse the day Kevin Durant paid a ghost-writing Syracuse grad to pen...
May 8, 20192 min read
The Celtics have a first-world problem
Celtics fans have always been a positive bunch. Blame it on Bob Ryan, who revolutionized basketball writing while at the Globe, and also...
May 3, 20191 min read
D-Lo walks into an airport...
The AriZona beverage brand is timeless. Years pass. Seasons change. The 3-point revolution takes over the NBA. And still, be it 2002 or...
Apr 29, 20191 min read
So, what was that all about?
Let’s just get this out there: The way Nuggets-Spurs Game 7 ended on Saturday night was amateur hour at the Comedy Studio. The Nuggets...
Apr 29, 20191 min read
James Harden ran out of tricks in Game 1
So much of James Harden’s game is predicated on fooling the referees into giving him calls. In Game 1 against the Warriors on Sunday...
Apr 29, 20192 min read
That time Al Horford sonned Giannis
Earlier this season, we wrote the universe might collapse when Giannis learns how to shoot 3-pointers consistently. By yesterday’s...
Apr 26, 20191 min read
Hondo can finally take an exhale
John Havlicek, one of the great players of the 1960s and ‘70s, who Bill Russell once called the greatest all-around player he had ever...
Apr 26, 20191 min read
Popovich; sustained grumpiness and greatness
The Spurs beat the Nuggets last night, 120-103, to force a final deciding game in Denver on Saturday at 10 p.m. EST, which makes sense...
Apr 26, 20191 min read
The Clippers are wonderfully annoying
First of all: The Golden State Warriors are completely fine. Two lazy losses to a first-round opponent are not a reason for panic; if...
Apr 24, 20192 min read
Lillard: ascension
For better or worse, Game 5 last night was supposed to be about Russell Westbrook. Nope. Damian Lillard shot him into obscurity, nailing...
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Apr 19, 20192 min read
The Grip's NBA Playoffs Round-up 4.19.19 [Eastern Conference]
[1] Milwaukee Bucks vs. [8] Detroit Pistons Game One: Bucks 121, Pistons 86 Game Two: Bucks 120. Pistons 99 Game Three: Bucks at Pistons,...
Apr 19, 20191 min read
With Embiid out, we got the full Boban experience
Great NBA players influence the game in some important way. Wilt’s dominance led to the three-second violation; Steph Curry’s shooting...
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Apr 19, 20193 min read
The Grip's NBA Playoffs Round-up 4.19.19 [Western Conference]
[1] Golden State Warriors vs. [8] LA Clippers Game One: Warriors 121, Clippers 104 Game Two: Clippers 135, Warriors 131 Game Three:...
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Apr 15, 20193 min read
The Grip's NBA Playoffs Round-up [Western Conference]
This was first featured in The Grip's 100th edition. Thank you for reading, or, at the very least, pretending to. We appreciate you....
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Apr 15, 20192 min read
The Grip's NBA Playoffs Round-up [Eastern Conference]
This was first featured in The Grip's 100th edition. Thank you for reading, or, at the very least, pretending to. We appreciate you....
Apr 10, 20191 min read
The end for Dirk, D-Wade
In Dwyane Wade’s last home game last night -- Detroit’s win over Memphis knocked Miami out of the playoffs -- he tried to jump up on the...
Apr 10, 20192 min read
The free bird screws his old team
According to a few different reports, nobody within the organization had any clue that Magic Johnson was going to hold an improvisational...
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Yes, there are still important games left
Talented the Eastern Conference’s bottom rung is not. Wildly entertaining, it is. Last night, the Brooklyn Nets beat the Indiana Pacers,...
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Some of the stupid things Ernie Grunfeld did, ranked
(Grunfeld, who had been Washington’s general manager for 16 years, was “relieved of his duties” on April 2. Here are some very stupid...
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