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Sports Illustrated April 12, 2000 Marty Burns |
Power Rankings Basketball rankings week of April 12-18.  |
Sports Illustrated March 15, 2000 Marty Burns |
NBA Power Rankings Rankings for the teams entering the week of March 8-14  |
Sports Illustrated March 22, 2000 Marty Burns |
NBA Power Rankings  |
Sports Illustrated March 29, 2000 Marty Burns |
NBA Power Rankings Ranking the teams in the league entering the week of March 29-April 4  |
Sports Illustrated March 8, 2000 Marty Burns |
NBA Power Rankings  |
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 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.  |
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 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 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 Illustrated January 22, 2002 Jack McCallum |
Conference conundrum The gap between teams in the East and West is huge in the NBA...  |
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 April 18, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Round One Predictions This has all the makings of a historic spring.  |
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 October 5, 2005 Seth Berkman |
NBA Preseason Power Rankings 1. San Antonio Spurs [59-23]... 2. Detroit Pistons [54-28]... 3. Miami Heat [59-23]... etc.  |
Sports Central October 29, 2007 Jonathan Lowe |
Already Past the Long Winter Predictions about which teams will make the NBA playoffs.  |
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 27, 2015 Ross Lancaster |
Peeking Forward to Round Two After a fantastic regular season with great players and teams, compelling and unexpected storylines, and generally brilliant basketball on a nightly basis, it's been a lackluster first round of NBA playoffs.  |
Sports Central April 15, 2004 Mason Williams |
2004 NBA Playoffs Preview It's time for the NBA playoffs to take center stage.  |
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 May 23, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Things We've Learned From the NBA Playoffs The NBA playoffs are usually generous when it comes to player meltdowns, tearing up age-old adages, and having certain teams rise to the top.  |
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 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 April 18, 2011 Bob Ekstrom |
Once Again, the West Proves Wild The NBA postseason that got underway Saturday didn't exactly pick up where the regular season ended.  |
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 Central April 22, 2013 Robert Campbell |
Welcome to the NBA Playoffs Welcome to the NBA playoffs. The tedious 82-game schedule has culminated into a 16-team race, a two-month battle to determine a champion.  |
Sports Illustrated February 5, 2001 Marty Burns |
Midseason awards Time for reflection on a so-so NBA season...  |
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 Illustrated April 18, 2000 Jackie MacMullan |
Inside the NBA Crown Shaquille O'Neal as MVP and Steve Francis as the top rookie  |
Sports Illustrated June 20, 2000 Ian Thomsen |
Swap Meat? Will the ever-troubled Nets trade the No. 1 pick? How high will high school phenom Darius Miles go? Pending changes in the order, here is how the June 28 draft is shaping up.  |
Sports Central March 4, 2008 Jonathan Lowe |
NBA Spoiler Alert Nine teams fit into the "spoiler" category.  |
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.  |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: NBA Finals Matchups Before the page is turned on this magical 2007 season, let's flip back in history and relive the top 10 NBA Finals matchups.  |
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?  |
Sports Illustrated March 24, 2000 |
Chat Reel: SI's Phil Taylor NBA chat with Sports Illustrated's Phil Taylor: playoff spots in the Eastern Conference... Steve Smith and Isaiah Rider...  |
Sports Illustrated April 13, 2000 Phil Taylor |
Coach of the Year a close call Basketball Q&A: Suns... Blazers... Raptors vs Knicks... Gary Payton... etc.  |
Sports Illustrated April 6, 2001 Phil Taylor |
Staying put -- for now Kobe Bryant won't be dealt for a long time, if at all...  |
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 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 January 12, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 11 After getting off to a somewhat quiet start to the season around the league, the injury bug has bitten and bitten hard recently.  |
Sports Illustrated February 19, 2002 Jack McCallum |
No-win situation One pessimist can't find a team worthy of the NBA title...  |
Sports Illustrated August 2, 2000 Marty Burns |
Chat Reel: SI's Marty Burns Moves could help Spurs challenge Lakers  |
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 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 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 Illustrated October 31, 2000 Marty Burns |
Chat Reel: SI's Marty Burns After plenty of offseason movement, season finally begins...  |
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?  |