Portland advances to the playoffs after withstanding Ja Morant’s career-best in scoring. Melo also gets a bit of a redemption story.

Portland advances to the playoffs after withstanding Ja Morant’s career-best in scoring. Melo also gets a bit of a redemption story.
After a loss against the Clippers, Damian Lillard came back with 51 in a big Blazers win against the Sixers.
The Knicks did win their game against the Rockets but the bigger headline is how they’re treating their biggest fan, Spike Lee.
Zion Williamson can play as many as 37 regular season games this year. Is this enough for the Rookie of the Year award?
Allen Crabbe was released by the Minnesota Timberwolves. Anthony Tolliver was also let go by the Sacramento Kings. Part of the NBA’s normal is bad teams releasing contributing players for good teams to pick up.
Quick look at this year’s dunk contest (and the Skills Challenge and 3-point shootout).
It’s Monday so we have Stupid Power Rankings! We take 10 things from the NBA (or maybe not just the NBA) and rank them accordingly.
The Atlanta Hawks won for the first time in San Antonio since 1997. 1997 was quite a long time ago.
The Grizzlies have won their 6th straight and no rookie has been better than Ja Morant.
The Clippers should be okay after they were walloped by the Grizzlies. SHOULD.
Kawhi Leonard is forever entrenched in Raptors lore, even if he only played a season there. For a one-year rental, everything went perfectly for Toronto.
Ja Morant is having a hell of a rookie year for the Memphis Grizzlies. His game has so much poise for a rookie.
James Harden has been having an unbelievable scoring run that really started from last season. But ya know, a lot of people also don’t like his “ugly game.”
Some of us probably don’t want to admit to this. But I think we like Dwight Howard. I might need an adult beverage or ten after saying that.