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Yahoo SportsThere’s no incentive for the Rockets to cave to James Harden
With the time remaining on Harden’s contract (two years and a player option totaling $132 million), the Rockets don’t have to do anything just because Harden has essentially gone public.
Yahoo SportsHow COVID-19 has impacted teams preparing for the NBA draft
With so much at stake — a multimillion-dollar deal for players barely removed from high school, and the future for teams trying to turn its fortunes — the weeks before the draft was already the ultimate cat-and-mouse game, almost akin to speed dating. Now picture that over Zoom.
Yahoo SportsNBA isn’t where it needs to be, but it's making strides in elevating Black coaches and executives
The NBA has taken a hit in recent years as the number of Black coaches has alarmingly decreased, but there’s been slight improvement in this offseason cycle — with a twist.
Yahoo SportsWith the NBA focusing on a 2020-21 start date, where will the Toronto Raptors call home?
League sources tell Yahoo Sports one alternate location that has been broached as a possible home for the Raptors is Louisville, Kentucky.
Yahoo SportsThe NBA did what the rest of the country could not in completing its improbable season
The league realized it could handle the longest year ever, and even though the television ratings may say otherwise, the NBA discovered it could put on a successful venture that should be the envy of most behaviors in this country.
Yahoo SportsLakers' signature defense should mute calls for an asterisk around 2020 NBA championship
A historic team, the Lakers are not. But defensively, they rank as high as any in Laker lore and it was the main reason, aside from the obvious top-heavy talent, that they captured their first title in 10 years — and ninth since the playoffs expanded to 16 teams in 1984.
Yahoo SportsThe Heat survived LeBron's biggest haymaker and lived to fight another day
When LeBron decides it’s time for a series to be over, for a championship to be won, for a bubble to burst, it happens. Except on Friday in Game 5.
Yahoo SportsThe unlikely role players who have the Lakers one win away from a return to glory
It wasn’t the Laker greats who pushed the Lakers to greatness, but players who had great moments. And great moments add up to a ring.
Yahoo SportsWhile LeBron aims for GOAT status, Anthony Davis is challenging him as the NBA's best player
It feels like Davis’ moment, like the beginning of a run where, armed with a Finals MVP and being a made man will turn him into an 82-game unstoppable monster for the next several years, the sun to which everything revolves around.
Yahoo SportsIf anyone can coax the best out of Simmons and Embiid, it's Doc Rivers
The 76ers seem committed to keeping these two in place for the foreseeable future, which means Rivers had to sell them on being able to develop them both, keep them happy and reverse the franchise’s underachieving ways.
Yahoo SportsDoc Rivers’ time with Clippers is done, but they need more than just sideline help
The Clippers have an imperfect roster and a number of questions to address if they want to become championship-caliber.
Yahoo SportsBoston turned the tables in Game 5, but Miami isn’t shaken
The Celtics are more than capable of making history to come back from a 3-1 deficit, but these Miami Heat aren’t a team that will beat themselves, or collapse under the weight of expectations. The Los Angeles Clippers, they are not.
Yahoo SportsTyler Herro's unexpected contributions just a portion from a day filled with frustration
Hours earlier, the state where Herro played one year of college ball, Kentucky, did the expected as the grand jury refused to indict the officers for their roles in the death of Breonna Taylor six months ago. In other words, the justice system working as it was designed to.
Yahoo SportsThe Heat have turned the tables on the frustrated Celtics
The Miami Heat have turned what was thought to be a poised, mature bunch into a group that second-guesses itself on the floor and, apparently, challenges itself off it for the world to hear.
Yahoo SportsIn a series that should be a dogfight, Jimmy Butler might have the loudest bark
The Boston Celtics won’t run away and hide from the Heat, and vice-versa — which means every game in this Eastern Conference finals will likely come down to the simplest of strategies: who can get a bucket late and who can make plays in scramble situations that derive from instinct and intellect.
Yahoo SportsThe Clippers went full Clippers in Game 5 collapse
It seemed like they’d finally gotten their act together, looking across the way at the inevitable matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers and decided they weren’t going to fool around with a team that didn’t know any better.
Yahoo SportsPlayoff Rondo is the ultimate wild card and he's paying off for Lakers
Leave it to LeBron James to describe Rondo perfectly. “Some people are built for this moment, some people are not.”
Yahoo SportsBucks miracle not worth jeopardizing Giannis' future in the process
There’s more than a second straight disappointing postseason finish on the line here, more than an evaluation of coach Mike Budenholzer’s future when Antetokounmpo will have the chance to extend his contract with the Bucks this fall.
Yahoo SportsSteve Nash's hiring leads to more questions as Black coaches sit on the sidelines
On Thursday, the Brooklyn Nets made the stunning hire of a Hall of Fame point guard with two MVPs yet zero days on a coaching sideline, seemingly a prerequisite for most coaches — especially Black coaches.
Yahoo SportsAs frontrunners emerge in the Giannis sweepstakes, Milwaukee's clock is ticking
The clock could be ticking on their time with a homegrown MVP as many in league circles believe Miami and Toronto are the frontrunners in the Antetokounmpo sweepstakes, with one observer telling Yahoo Sports “it’s an open secret” within the Orlando bubble.
Yahoo Sports'Greek Freak' in a landslide? Why Giannis Antetokounmpo should easily win MVP
It should be a runaway, as the Bucks were slightly off a 70-win pace before the pandemic stopped the world and NBA season.
Yahoo SportsThe Bucks gave America a taste of its own medicine during moment of controlled rage
Before their athletic life mattered to you, their Black life didn’t to most of you — a notion confirmed on video or at conventions or in coded tweets.
Yahoo SportsNBA players offer painful, sobering views of Black despair
LeBron James, George Hill and Fred VanVleet struggle to make sense of police violence against Black Americans while in the bubble.
Yahoo SportsLuka Doncic shows basketball world he's in a category all his own
The first chapter in the book of Luka Legend was written on a Sunday afternoon with an all-time playoff performance and a dazzling overtime buzzer-beating triple.
Yahoo SportsWhen will 'Playoff P' Paul George show up for the Clippers?
Paul George's struggles have given confirmation bias to those who not only feel George can’t be a primetime player on a championship team, but also the Clippers’ worthiness of contender status.