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Now that the Hawks closed the doors on the Bucks’ NBA championship dreams, only eight teams remain in the race to the NBA championship. All the East’s expected contenders escaped their first-round playoff opponents without much difficulty (well, besides the aforementioned Hawks), and set the stage for a glorious second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Wild Wild West, on the other hand, waved goodbye to two presumed contenders in the ...

With Week One of the playoffs officially in the books, we've had the opportunity to start separating the contenders from the pretenders. In the East, all four of the higher-seeded teams have managed to proceed along without any major hiccups (excluding the Cavs' Game Three against Chicago), and they all hold two-game advantages over their opponents. The West, on the other hand, is the war zone we expected it to be—after all, ...

We're only two months away from the NBA draft, and while 16 teams are in the playoffs battling for an NBA championship, the other 14 are at home, Tweeting, and thinking about the help their teams will get in the draft this June. The top two picks are pretty squared away, no matter what madness happens with the draft lottery in May. There's a second tier of three guys who ...

With the NBA's regular season finishing up last night, 14 of the League's teams have begun their summer vacation. The other 16? They're about to advance to a two-month battle royale for the NBA championship. The first round of the NBA playoffs is chock-full of tasty matchups, especially in the loaded West. When 50-win teams make up the bottom half of your conference's playoff bracket, chances are, there'll be some ...

With the NBA playoffs about to start, you may have noticed the intensity ratcheting up another level during some of the key games the past few weeks. As they say around the League: That’s playoff basketball. Defense gets tougher. Fouls get harder. Blocks and dunks get nastier. You know that every player is giving his 100 percent. Some players and teams this season will have a little extra ...

LeBron James could be a healthy scratch from the final five games of the Cavs' season. Kobe Bryant is no guarantee to suit up in the Lakers final two games, either. Dwight Howard and Vince Carter, on the other hand, shouldn't be expecting too much downtime in the final week of the regular season.   Magic coach Stan Van Gundy has been repeatedly saying that he won't rest players in the final week ...

Without question, the NBA's free agent class of 2010 is the most hyped free agency period in NBA history. Granted, seeing as some teams (New York) have been setting themselves up for this summer for years, this free agent crop (including LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh) probably deserves some hype. But does this year's free agency class match up with some of the NBA's finest? Let's answer ...

With the playoffs rapidly approaching, and Andrew Bynum sidelined by a knee injury for the third straight year, it's time to ask a painful question for Laker fans. If Bynum can't come back at full strength, are the Lakers the favorites to win the Western Conference any more? There hasn't been this much panic in Laker-land since Kobe Bryant told Stephen A. Smith that he wanted to be traded back in the ...

In honor of the upcoming McDonald's All-American Game (Weds., 8 p.m., ESPN), I went back and re-visited what happened to the Burger Boy MVPs of the past decade. Not gonna lie...the range of players is pretty wild. (As if you couldn't tell by the awesome picture of Kevin Durant and Chase Budinger from 2006.) On one end, you've got No. 1 overall picks, NBA MVPs, and NBA MVPs for years to ...