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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
October 29, 2007
Jonathan Lowe |
Already Past the Long Winter Predictions about which teams will make the NBA playoffs. |
Sports Central
March 9, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 19 This week's Starting Five consists of five of the most prominent streaking teams in the NBA right now. |
Sports Central
November 15, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
Contenders and Pretenders in the NBA The 2005-06 NBA season is predictable. There are only five or six teams who are a real threat to win the championship. |
Sports Central
January 3, 2011
Jonathan Lowe |
Going Up? Which of the NBA cellar dwellers can turn it around like the Knicks appear to have done strolling into 2011? |
Sports Central
January 31, 2011
Jonathan Lowe |
Leaning a Certain Way Who tips the scale in the NBA? |
Sports Central
April 15, 2004
Mason Williams |
2004 NBA Playoffs Preview It's time for the NBA playoffs to take center stage. |
Sports Central
October 20, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For This NBA Season (Pt. 4) Examining the Western Conference and the projected record for each team. |
Sports Central
October 26, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For This NBA Season (Pt. 4) Before the NBA season starts, here's one last look at the Western Conference. |
Sports Illustrated
March 15, 2000
Marty Burns |
NBA Power Rankings Rankings for the teams entering the week of March 8-14 |
Sports Illustrated
January 22, 2002
Jack McCallum |
Conference conundrum The gap between teams in the East and West is huge in the NBA... |
Sports Central
April 24, 2007
Nick Feely |
A Non-NBA Playoff Preview NBA teams are listed from worst to 14th-worst record wise, the projected order of this year's NBA draft in June. |
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 Illustrated
April 12, 2000
Marty Burns |
Power Rankings Basketball rankings week of April 12-18. |
Sports Illustrated
March 8, 2000
Marty Burns |
NBA Power Rankings |
Sports Central
November 3, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
NBA Week 1: Off and Running One week of play in the NBA proves entertaining and competitive. It is also a good time to evaluate what's what around the league, but nothing that happens is going to be earth-shattering. |
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
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 Illustrated
April 5, 2000
Marty Burns |
Power Rankings Basketball rankings. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
April 3, 2001
Ian Thomsen |
Down to The Wire In the wild Western Conference, there's playoff intensity in the fight for NBA playoff spots... |
Sports Central
July 24, 2013
Andrew Jones |
14 Teams to Watch in 2013-14 The NBA season is still a ways away, but the offseason has been an interesting one. Here are 14 teams to watch in the upcoming season, some for obvious reasons ... others for not so obvious reasons. |
Sports Central
April 18, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
NBA Round One Predictions This has all the makings of a historic spring. |
Sports Central
March 11, 2004
Timothy Hammill |
Playoff Predictions For the East Indiana vs. Cleveland... New Orleans vs. Milwaukee... etc. |
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
February 24, 2014
Ross Lancaster |
Five Games to Watch Down the Stretch Here are five basketball games to watch, in no particular order, which will help define the NBA playoff picture. |
Sports Central
February 5, 2014
Jonathan Lowe |
Number One Stunner When it came to the Western Conference, the Trailblazers were the talk of the league around Thanksgiving. Highlighted by wins over San Antonio and at Golden State, Portland bolted their way to a 13-2 record in late November. |
Sports Central
March 16, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
The NBA's Race For Last Three teams that made statements in the last postseason are now fighting each other for the final spot in the upcoming postseason. So who's got the upper hand? |
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
March 16, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 19 In case a week of watching college basketball has skewed what you remember about the game being played at its highest level, this week's Starting Five consists of a few friendly reminders from the NBA world to help you focus on what March basketball is all about: playoff seeding. |
Sports Central
December 13, 2010
Bob Ekstrom |
New York Knicks Are a Tough Knock The Knicks currently hold the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference and will be the team nobody wants to face in April. Although New Yorkers will argue it's not all Stoudemire, he is at the heart of the matter. |
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
May 15, 2013
Ross Lancaster |
Grizzlies Roaring to New Heights The NBA playoffs, versus the postseason in any other major American sport, and especially those with single-elimination formats, are thought to be the most chalk-stained and uncompelling by many. |
Sports Central
May 7, 2012
Stephen Kerr |
Why the Spurs Could Capture the Title Now that the NBA postseason is underway, speculation abounds as to who will be crowned the next champion. The San Antonio Spurs could have something to say about who grabs the brass ring. |
Sports Illustrated
October 26, 2000
Marty Burns |
NBA Power Rankings Here is how SI's Marty Burns ranks the teams entering the first week of the 2000-01 NBA season. This year's kickoff begins the same way last year's ended, with the Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers holding down the top two spots... |
Sports Illustrated
December 27, 2000
Marty Burns |
Power Rankings NBA rankings for the week of Dec. 27 - Jan. 3 |
Sports Illustrated
March 1, 2000
Marty Burns |
NBA Power Rankings |
Sports Central
December 5, 2003
Danny Sternfield |
Makin' an NBA Wish List It seems like everyone always wants something for Christmas. NBA teams are no different -- they probably wait for Santa just like you and me. Here's a list of what NBA teams want (and need) for the holidays. |
Sports Central
January 4, 2008
Jonathan Lowe |
Striving For a New Year's Goal What could professional basketball players have been thinking about during their New Years' Eve parties? |
Sports Central
April 14, 2008
Jonathan Lowe |
The Starting Five Off the Court Five questions about the NBA postseason. |
Sports Central
January 18, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
Raising Futility in NBA's Atlantic The halfway mark is almost here for the '04-'05 season, and little has changed across the NBA landscape. The Western Conference still appears to be beating the East upside their butts with a metal paddle. |
Sports Central
January 25, 2010
Scott Shepherd |
Eighth is Enough Which players will be named to the all-star team? Which players will be traded at the deadline? Which coaches are going to get fired? Which teams are going to tank to try and get a better draft pick? |
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
November 4, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
Who Makes the NBA Playoffs in '06? Sure, everyone has a shot at the trophy now, but only 16 squads will continue the fight in April. So, you ask, who might those be? |
Salon.com
October 31, 2000
Allen Barra |
The "transition" game The NBA is suffering, not because it misses Michael Jordan, but because there are too many teenage millionaires who can't shoot... |
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
January 2, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
The Evolution of an NBA Fan Despite all the warts and sheer incompetency associated with upper levels of NBA leadership, many factors on the court have converged to make the regular season one worth watching, even if you normally ignore much of the period until the playoffs. |
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
February 20, 2004
Derek Daggett |
What to Expect in Second-Half Five Bold Predictions" for the second-half of the NBA season. |
Sports Central
April 15, 2014
Ross Lancaster |
A Modest Proposal As we come to the end of the NBA regular season for 2013-14 and look forward to what promises to be an exceptionally high-level and competitive playoffs, fans should marvel at how entertaining it's been. |
