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Sports Central May 1, 2007 Bill Hazell |
There'll Be No NBA Finals Rematch After four games, the Miami Heat have now been swept and the number one contenders are staring at a 3-1 hole. How did this happen? |
Sports Central October 29, 2007 Jonathan Lowe |
Already Past the Long Winter Predictions about which teams will make the NBA playoffs. |
Sports Central April 19, 2007 Eric Anderson |
2007 NBA Playoffs Preview After 82 essentially meaningless games, it's time to get down to business -- a quick breakdown of the NBA's "second season." |
Sports Central March 20, 2006 Aaron Miller |
Lucky Sevens: Potential NBA Cinderellas Concerned basketball fans can take it easy, there is life after March Madness -- the NBA playoffs. And this year's playoff edition could actually be exciting, even if you can't imagine how. |
Sports Central May 11, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
Living Dangerously on Easy Street Have the Cavs chances of winning a title actually been hindered by the fact that they've been so much better than their opponents in the postseason? |
Sports Central March 11, 2004 Timothy Hammill |
Playoff Predictions For the East Indiana vs. Cleveland... New Orleans vs. Milwaukee... etc. |
Sports Central April 27, 2011 Jonathan Lowe |
Requiem For a Redemption We all know about those teams in basketball that just don't get the job done. They have the talent to make deep runs in their respective postseasons, but they struggle. |
Sports Central May 14, 2007 Eric Anderson |
Dallas Mavs: The Brad Lidge of Basketball A few reasons the Mavs will never win a title without wholesale changes. |
Sports Central May 3, 2006 Jonathan Lowe |
NBA Playoffs: Struggles of Power Why are the current results in the NBA playoff series so shocking this time around? |
Sports Central April 23, 2007 Wailele Sallas |
NBA Part Two: The Second Season The second half of the NBA season was a joke. Half the teams were tanking for the Greg Oden/Kevin Durant sweepstakes, while the other half were fighting for playoff position. |
Salon.com April 25, 2002 King Kaufman |
Don Nelson and black big men The Mavericks coach doesn't ever seem to click with them. Plus: The NBA doesn't call them play-OFFS for nothing... |
Sports Central May 25, 2006 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Playoffs: 40 Games in 40 Nights (Pt. II) The continuation of a list of 40 items about the NBA Playoffs. |
Sports Central March 30, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 21 This week's Starting Five takes a look at the Western Conference playoff race as we try to sort through the madness that is taking place on the left coast and figure out which three teams will win the coveted home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs. |
Sports Central May 4, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
The Perfect Storm There will need to be a perfect storm of circumstances for a higher seeded team to pull off an upset in this round of the NBA playoffs. |
Sports Central September 25, 2003 Derek Daggett |
Three Surprise Teams For '03-'04 Three teams that missed the NBA playoffs last year are locks for the postseason. |
Sports Central June 15, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
A Championship-Defining Turning Point The epic, drawn-out nature of the NBA playoffs usually creates a certain amount of volatility from game-to-game. |
Sports Central April 4, 2007 Paul Tenorio |
Can Anyone Take Down the Pistons? The Detroit Pistons are looking like the best the league has to offer. |
Sports Central May 9, 2005 Jonathan Lowe |
A Tighter Fit in Round Two of NBA Playoffs There are lots of questions that will be answered in the second round of the NBA playoffs: Can the Wizards Become This Year's Heat? Does Seattle Have Enough Shots to Move on? Will History Repeat Itself? Can Dallas Run With the Suns? |
Sports Central April 26, 2006 Isaac Miller |
NBA 2005-06 Season in Review Top 10 Storylines of 2005-06... The MVP and other postseason awards... Playoff predictions... etc. |
Sports Central March 4, 2008 Jonathan Lowe |
NBA Spoiler Alert Nine teams fit into the "spoiler" category. |
Sports Central April 18, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Round One Predictions This has all the makings of a historic spring. |
Sports Central March 24, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
The Race For the Final Playoff Spots The NBA's schedule-makers could not have laid out the season's final week any better for the three West teams fighting for the last playoff spots in one of the most competitive conferences ever. |
Sports Central April 21, 2009 Jonathan Hamelin |
NBA Playoffs: Best of the Rest There are already a truckload of articles covering just about everything on the playoffs, from individual matchups to what shoe size each player will be wearing. |
Sports Central July 2, 2005 Jonathan Lowe |
Who Can Challenge For Next Year's Crown? The Miami Heat and the Phoenix Suns will challenge the Detroit Pistons and the San Antonio Spurs for next year's conference championships. The New Jersey Nets and Dallas Mavericks are still good, but not great. The Bulls and Nuggets are building. |
Sports Central April 16, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Preview Breaking down the Eastern Conference in round one of the playoffs. |
Sports Central March 23, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 20 March Madness it is not, but the last three weeks of the NBA season still holds much significance in the basketball world. |
Sports Central June 7, 2006 Jonathan Lowe |
NBA Finals: First-Time Charmers Dallas takes it home in six games -- here's why. |
Sports Central November 9, 2006 Chad Kettner |
Surprise Starts in the NBA The NBA season is only one week old and nobody could have predicted the start we have already seen. |
Sports Central May 29, 2006 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Playoffs: Forecasting the Final Four Drama, comedy, competition, and eliminations all wrapped up in one program ... the NBA playoffs. |
Sports Central May 23, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Protracted Playoffs The NBA playoffs have been irrelevant up until this point since the expected has occurred. |
Sports Central May 4, 2006 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Playoffs: The Suffixer The playoffs are a special breed of basketball, and the language to describe them needs to be just as special -- as the meanings of some of the words coming out of the postseason will attest. |
Sports Central March 11, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
Who's the Last Team In? What if, just like in the NCAAs, the NBA had to choose their contestants for the playoffs? What if there was an imaginary level teams needed to achieve to get a shot at the title? Who would get in? Who would have the most desirable resume right now? |
Sports Central March 21, 2005 Joseph Sammour |
The NBA's Elite Eight We're going to be focusing on the second round of the NBA playoffs, which will involve the NBA's answer to the Elite Eight. For each team, I'll explain who they will beat in the first round, and how much further they can go. |
Sports Central November 3, 2010 Jonathan Lowe |
Flipping the Switch On It's been an offseason of discontent with LeBron James, jubilation over Kevin Durant, anxiety about free agency, and near apathy for the world championships. Last week, though, that all finally stopped. |
Sports Central April 17, 2007 Corrie Trouw |
What We Learned From the NBA Season With March Madness in our rearview mirrors, let's sift through the regular season trash bin and find something that actually means something as we look toward the postseason. |
Sports Central April 27, 2007 Scott Shepherd |
Nine Weeks of Basketball at its Best Any real basketball fan, however, will tell you that the real madness takes place over the course of nine weeks in the NBA playoffs. |
Salon.com April 27, 2001 King Kaufman |
April blandness The NBA sure takes its sweet time getting through the boring first round of the playoffs... |
Sports Central April 30, 2008 Corrie Trouw |
Fighting for Their Playoff Lives We're not even through one round of the 2008 NBA Playoffs, and clearly this year's postseason has a much more heated and physical feel than we've seen in years. |
Sports Central May 19, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
German Efficiency No matter what the end result of this Mavericks' playoff run will be, I will have the utmost appreciation for Dirk Nowitzki not only as an all-time NBA great, but for his ability to produce unbelievably unique performances like the one he conjured up on Tuesday. |
Sports Illustrated April 19, 2002 Jack McCallum |
First-round prognostications While the only question on everyone's mind seems to be whether or not the Lakers will three-peat, the postseason that begins Saturday features, in the Eastern Conference, the most wide-open race in history... |
Sports Central June 6, 2005 Chris Speckman |
NBA Playoffs: Score More, Bore Less For the first time in a while, the NBA playoffs have been memorable and exciting. |
Sports Central January 4, 2012 Louie Centanni |
Why the 66-Game NBA Season Should Stay Between playing more frequently, forcing stars to show effort nightly, and reintroducing the concept of team basketball, the 66-game NBA season seems to be a great experiment - one that should become the norm for years to come. |
Sports Central May 27, 2008 Bill Hazell |
Home Cooking Vital in These Playoffs Home court is everything in the NBA this year. |
Sports Central May 11, 2006 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Playoffs: 40 Games in 40 Nights The 40 things I have seen, thought about, heard through the grapevine, considered, predicted, been insulted by, been nauseated by, scoffed at, and missed about the 2006 NBA playoffs so far (in no particular order). |
Sports Central October 19, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For This NBA Season (Pt. 3) Here's a breakdown the former Eastern Conference and a prediction of how each team will fare as they begin a new decade of basketball. |
Sports Central January 31, 2013 Jonathan Lowe |
This Shine Isn't Fool's Gold We've reached the top of the NBA roller coaster. At the halfway point, it's all downhill from now until mid-April. However, that doesn't mean there won't be more twists and turns to maneuver in the rest of the regular season. |
Sports Central May 16, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Keys to the NBA Conference Finals The 2011 NBA conference finals are underway and this final four gives us youth, age, and plenty of superstar power. |
Sports Central March 21, 2007 Scott Shepherd |
Beware of the Ides of March The problem with the NBA in March is that we've seen enough of everybody to think that we know where every team stands. But if recent history has taught us anything, it's that we haven't seen anything yet. |
Sports Central April 10, 2006 Jordan Rivas |
Power Rank This There are certain things one simply cannot predict with any kind of accuracy. Among them are all 30 NBA teams. |
Sports Central May 29, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Pistons, Lakers to Renew Rivalry? Four teams remain in the NBA Playoffs, and there is little doubt as to which contest this author would like to see in the final round: Lakers vs. Pistons. |