Category: NBA News

A Frenchman in the NBA G League: Cleveland’s unexpected hero Sometimes a G League night becomes more than a development game. Sometimes a player people thought they knew reappears in a new light. In Cleveland that night it was Killian Hayes who reignited the spark. Released from an NBA roster a few weeks earlier, the…

Jokic, the craftsman of controlled chaos There are games where Nikola Jokic doesn’t play basketball. He paints. Slowly, methodically, with that quiet precision that drives any defender crazy. Against the Wolves, in an atmosphere saturated with tension, the Serbian center didn’t just answer the physical challenge. He redefined it. As if every contact were a…

Luka Doncic, the maestro who turned the Bucks into bit players There are nights when Luka Doncic plays basketball. And then there are those when he rewrites the laws of sport live. Against the Bucks, Dallas didn’t just need a leader, a scorer or a magician. They needed Luka in hurricane mode, the one who…

An NBA Cup night at Madison Square Garden can quickly turn into a grand theater production. And on Friday, the Knicks, led by a phenomenal Towns, provided the audience with an unrestrained performance, one of those games where the numbers go wild, where rotations turn into a laboratory, and where a certain Landry Shamet decided…

The NBA season has this nasty habit of reminding that nothing is guaranteed, even when you’re called Denver and Braun’s start to the season and the collective seem perfect. One ordinary night, a bad step, an ankle that twists, and here is Christian Braun stuck in the locker room. Not the flashiest player on the…

The atmosphere was electric at Madison Square Garden, as usual. But for the Knicks and Anunoby, the evening turned icy cold within the first few minutes. One transition, a missed lay-up, a misdirected movement… and OG Anunoby stops abruptly, hand on the back of his left thigh. Silence on the bench. Sighs from the staff.…

Onyeka Okongwu: The Hawks’ Center Shines from Three-Point Range There are games that change a career, evenings when a player decides that their story will no longer be told quite the same way. For Onyeka Okongwu, that night came like a snap of the fingers in the arena of Atlanta. A center who ventures behind…

The Cavaliers Out of Breath Against the Raptors There are nights when everything feels off. Legs that are heavy, passes that slip, eyes searching for a second wind that never comes. In Toronto, the Cavaliers had exactly this kind of impossible meeting. Two battles in Florida under their belts, a quick return north, and suddenly…