Suns The Suns are doing everything in their power to earn a regular playoff spot and avoid the play-in tournament. If that means beating the mediocre Hawks at home, so be it. This is what Phoenix did on Thursday behind the 30 points of Devin Booker and 21 from the reserve guard Eric Gordon. As a result, the Suns (41-29) are 12 games above .500 for the first time this season. They’ve also won six of nine, so they’re warming up at the perfect time. “It’s more of what we expect from our group, with the talent we have from…
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THE Portland Trail Blazers will have the chance to apply what they learned playing against the LA Clippers on Wednesday almost immediately as the teams face off again on a cool spring evening in Portland. One thing the Blazers would like to avoid is falling so far behind that the Clippers start playing defense against their own players out of boredom: Hilarious clips aside (pun intended), these two teams are not equals. While the Blazers only lost by 13, the game was nowhere near as close before garbage time, falling behind by 26 during a big Clippers run in the…
A bad team with a losing record. That’s what the Washington Wizards were looking at in their game against the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night. So we all should have seen this coming. Now, rather than returning to a game against the fifth-seeded New Orleans Pelicans, who lost to Orlando on Thursday, the Kings (40-29) lost to the sixth seed in the standings. The Kings will look to bounce back Saturday night against the Orlando Magic. Thank you for watching. Don’t forget to give a thumbs up and subscribe! Follow @https://twitter.com/sactown1140
On a Thursday night in March, the aura in Houston was unusually tense as the Chicago Bulls prepared for a big game against the Rockets. Owners of a 34-35 disk, a victory would boost the Bulls return to a .500 record for the first time since the start of the season and help them catch up with a few struggling teams ahead of them in the standings.It wouldn’t be an easy task, however, as the Rockets entered winning six straight and eight of their last nine games. Despite having a similarly mediocre 33-35 record as Chicago, the Rockets are a…
After a one-game stop at home Wednesday night, the Cavaliers hit the road again for a pair this weekend, starting with a Friday night matchup with the Timberwolves in Minnesota. The Wine & Gold lost their third straight home game on Wednesday, falling to the Heat for the second time in three tries this year. Cleveland was again led by three starters and rallied from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to take a four-point advantage with 1:34 to play. But Terry Rozier scored nine points in the final 1:24 of regulation to sink the Cavaliers. The Timberwolves, now 1.5 games out…
Two Dallas sports owners were listed on the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index Friday.Miriam Adelson, new owner of the Dallas Mavericks cracked the top 50, ranking as the 43rd richest billionaire in the world with a total net worth of $35.5 billion. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones also ranked 171st with a total net worth of $12.6 billion.Adelson, whose purchase of the Dallas Mavericks was approved by the NBA last December, is the largest shareholder of Las Vegas Sands, considered one of the largest casino operators in the world. His net worth in 2024 has increased by $1.37 billion so far.…
Clark holds a career-high fourth place in the Official World Golf Rankings and is second at the FedExCup. He won this year’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after a course-record 60 at Pebble Beach and finished second in the last two PGA TOUR events, the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. He is a Denver native, having attended Valor Christian High School (with San Francisco 49ers star Christian McCaffrey. Clark won his first high school state title as a sophomore, then shot 64-64 as a senior to win the title by eight strokes.
THE Indiana Pacers (39-31) faces the Warriors of the Golden State (36-32) Friday with tipoff from Chase Center scheduled for 10 p.m. ET. Let’s analyze BetMGM Sports Betting lines around the Pacers vs. Warriors odds and make sure our expert NBA picks and predictions. Season series: Warriors lead 1-0 The Pacers crushed the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night by a final of 122-103. They have been 11-point favorites and are 5-5 in a row and ATS over the last 10. Tyrese Haliburton had an easy total of 20 points, 9 assists and 4 steals in 26 minutes of action. The…
Stats Suggest He’s an All-NBAerBefore this year, there were 101 instances where a player averaged more than 22 points, more than six rebounds, more than five assists and more than one steal in a season. In 86 of them, or 85.1 percent of the time, the player who met those minimum marks made an All-NBA team — 59 made the first team, 18 made the second team and nine made the third team.On top of that, of the 32 total players who have recorded these numbers, dating back to when the Vols started being tracked in 1973-74, 27 have made…
THE Indiana Pacers and Golden State Warriors will face off Friday at Chase Center. THE Warriors dismantled the Pacers 131-109 when the teams last met on Indiana’s home court on February 8. Steph Curry’s 42 points proved decisive in this competition. The Warriors lost 45 points in the first quarter to set the tone as Curry had 29 points in just the first 24 minutes of the game. Jonathan Kuminga had an excellent appearance with 18 points, while Andrew Wiggins, Dario Saric and Gui Santos also dropped over 10 points. With Tyrese Haliburton Playing with a one-minute restriction, there was…