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“Questionable” for Game 2, they told us. Robert Williams III, out but probably in, the Boston Celtics giving the Silicone-sainted Golden State Warriors the runaround with RWIII. Bettors, too! Game 2 clicks on and Robert Williams, “questionable,” is again inside the starting lineup. The Warriors seem a little annoyed, and
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It was hard to determine when Al Horford was tallest in that fourth quarter. Possibly when he intercepted a Draymond Green (too short) entry pass with five minutes left, at the same moment ABC televised Steve Kerr’s “we gotta go, now!”-timeout, the speech behind the desperate play Horford
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BOSTON CELTICS C: Robert Williams — interior presence is one reason GSW wants a quick hit to this series, TL is “questionable” for Game 1 but feasibly “a whole hell of a lot better” by Game 5 on June 13. F/C: Al Horford — around for Boston’s regular season win
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Jimmy Butler’s miss in Game 7 came from my dreams. Maybe it came from yours, too, see, I grew up watching Scottie Pippen take those sorts of transition threes, living off those line-drives, the momentum, the story arc dissolving into zero arc, either a straight-shot swish or catnap-crushing clang
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If you gave the Miami Heat zero chance in Game 6, if you assumed the Celtics clinched at home, if you doubted Jimmy Butler’s ability to walk, yo, you were fine for that. If you skipped the game, Friday night on a party weekend, it’s understandable. But Butler
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Stupid take fouls, and the boring regular season
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Luka Dončić’s defense is not his Achilles’ heel. Achilles was mostly good, invulnerable save for the little blip behind his ankle. No, Luka Dončić’s defense is a millstone, at least when he lets it sit there. The Warriors made Dončić work in Golden State’s 109-100 Game 3
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You saw Game 1, how Tuesday’s second half turned out. Miami went Miami in the third quarter and the Celtics, only two days removed from playing the same Bucks rotation seven times in two weeks, could not function. The legs were there, but Boston had no brain capacity for
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NBA lottery mock draft
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Eastern finals preview
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None of these 76ers betrayed us0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: all NBA all the time except for the parts where we don’t talk about the NBA at all.) JOEL EMBIID All we’ve ever done is celebrate his honesty. He earned shit for being too weird with
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Only eight teams left playing. This isn’t enough of my heart to go around. Here are the other teams I’m thinking about. 1. Sacramento — Maybe Mike Brown spent the last few seasons in Golden State delineating the difference between a head coach and the brightest assistant. Maybe it’