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Sports Central May 30, 2011 Bill Hazell |
Don't Get Your Hopes Up, Mavs Fans Going into the 2011 NBA Finals, we should all be clear on two things: who the favorite is, and who the sentimental favorite is.  |
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 December 2, 2011 Megan Brown |
Are The Heat Too Hot For Miami? I know that Heat are more hungry now than ever and once the NBA lockout ends, they will be back ready to take another run at the title.  |
Sports Central June 5, 2006 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Finals: A Time For Firsts For the first time since 1971, we have two teams facing off that have never been to the championship series before. So how do you evaluate the x-factor if there is no experience?  |
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 December 20, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Forgotten Mavericks, Spurs Are Rising Two NBA teams flying under the radar are the San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks.  |
Sports Central June 4, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
NBA Finals Are the Spurs' For the Taking The 2014 NBA Finals will feature the first rematch of the previous year's championship series since the Bulls and Jazz met in 1998.  |
Sports Central June 25, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
Falling Down Just to Stand Up Over the last 20 years or so in the NBA, there's a fascinating trend that has developed: rarely do the league's biggest stars immediately find championship success on their first trip to the Finals or a grand, high-pressure stage.  |
Sports Central June 19, 2006 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Finals: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics He said, he said. That's what the end of Game 5 came down to Sunday night.  |
Sports Central May 9, 2011 Paul Foeller |
From the Decision to the Championship? The two-time defending champion Lakers won't have a chance at a three-peat.  |
Sports Central May 31, 2011 Jonathan Lowe |
Quality Remodeling Who would have thought that the Mavericks would become one of the most consistent winners in the NBA?  |
Sports Central April 11, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Three NBA Playoff Predictions The NBA playoffs have begun and this year the race to the finals looks more open than usual. Teams like the Bulls, Lakers, Spurs, Heat, and Magic all look like the favorites to reach the Finals.  |
Sports Central June 7, 2006 Jonathan Lowe |
NBA Finals: First-Time Charmers Dallas takes it home in six games -- here's why.  |
Sports Central June 21, 2011 Brad Oremland |
Go Easy on LeBron LeBron James is not a superhuman gifted with a magical ability to elevate his game if there's a title at stake, and he's not a choker who can't win the big one.  |
Sports Illustrated March 19, 2002 Jack McCallum |
Make-or-break time Mavs must overcome team friction and the Lakers -- now...  |
Sports Central June 12, 2006 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Finals: Fait Accompli? Only two teams have ever come back from an 0-2 deficit in the NBA Finals to win the championship. So will the Miami Heat make history -- or go home?  |
Sports Central June 14, 2011 Bob Ekstrom |
A King Gone, But Not Forgotten The Mavericks' reversal of their perennial postseason underachievement was unexpected.  |
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 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 22, 2009 Wailele Sallas |
Kobe vs. LeBron, At Any Cost? Would there be anything better than seeing the two best players in the NBA attacking each other for seven games?  |
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.  |
Fast Company April 20, 2011 Chuck Salter |
What LeBron James And The Miami Heat Teach Us About Teamwork When the Miami Heat raided the free-agent talent market last summer, many people declared the franchise unstoppable. So far, it's proven to be good, but vulnerable. What's behind the group's struggles? A lesson for us all in teamwork.  |
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 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 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 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 March 14, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Eastern Conference Race is Heating Up The NBA's Eastern Conference is garnerning a lot of attention and not just due to East Coast bias and Carmelo Anthony's presence in NYC. Some teams are imploding, while others are rising, and there are actual races for playoff spots.  |
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 May 10, 2012 Paul Foeller |
Pace Yourself The Indiana Pacers are going to give the Miami Heat all they can handle in a best of seven series that promises to at least come within a stone's throw of a Game 7.  |
Sports Central April 20, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Playoffs: Opening Statement Games After one game in each series, there's only one thing that we know for sure: we don't know anything yet.  |
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 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 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 April 14, 2008 Jonathan Lowe |
The Starting Five Off the Court Five questions about the NBA postseason.  |
Sports Central May 30, 2013 Kevin Beane |
Schadenfreude and the NBA Eastern Finals I think the Pacers just might be the team to give Cleveland fans a modicum of succor just like Dallas did two seasons ago, so I'm glued to the television every game.  |
Sports Central May 3, 2012 Gary Flick |
X-ceptional This year's NBA playoffs have already given us epic comebacks, suspensions, MVP season-ending injuries, confrontations with refs, confrontations with fire extinguishers, and (my personal favorite) superstar game winners ... and no team has played more than two games.  |
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 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 October 12, 2010 Bob Ekstrom |
NBA East Will Be Battle of Big Threes NBA general managers got a bit ahead of themselves last week when they penciled in the Los Angeles Lakers for a three-peat, but they did nail half the NBA Finals matchup in the process.  |
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 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 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 Central December 29, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 9 A look back at five of the most memorable and significant moments of 2008 in the NBA.  |
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 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 June 15, 2006 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Finals: 6:34 of Perfection Just when it looked like it was going to be another Dallas win and an 0-3 deficit for the Heat, Dwyane Wade rallied his team from a 13-point fourth quarter deficit. Not bad for a guy playing on a bum knee.  |
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 April 23, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Playoffs: Split Decisions With the first two games of each NBA playoff series in the books, an incredible five of the eight series are tied up at a game apiece.  |
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 June 17, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
The Dizzying Coaching Carousel The two teams that are still playing as the calendar clicks over to the latter half of June, offer a model of smart, consistent management and leadership in coaching for success.  |