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Memphis Grizzlies All-Star Ja Morant sent out two tweets about Luka Doncic on Sunday night. Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks are playing the Phoenix Suns in Game 7 of their second-round playoff series.

Jason Kidd will be on Cloud 9 right now, as he was able to lead his Dallas Mavericks past the reigning Western Conference champions Phoenix Suns and into the Western Conference Finals. Kidd, who won his only NBA championship in Dallas, is now the head coach of the team and has done a wonderful job with them. After the game, Kidd gave a motivating speech to his players and even took a shot at Chris Paul.

Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers finally made a move this season when they traded away CJ McCollum and Norman Powell in a bid to try and execute a quick rebuild around Damian Lillard that would allow them to contend. With a new permanent GM at the helm, and an interesting offseason coming up for the team, who they will pursue and land to play alongside Lillard remains anybody's guess.

Kyrie Irving clearly cost the Nets a lot of wins this season. In Boston, he cost them some wins as well, with all the dysfunction he caused. According to the star guard himself, he may have also cost the Cavs some major victories as well. In a chat on the...

The Philadelphia 76ers endured a nightmarish season. Towards the end, the guy they traded so much for (James Harden) looked like a shell of himself and sparked questions about his future after coming up small in an elimination game. In the beginning, the 76ers had to deal with the Ben...

Chris Paul is taking all sorts of heat since his Phoenix Suns got dismantled by the Dallas Mavericks in Game 7 of their Western Conference semifinals series on Sunday. The Suns made the NBA Finals last season, then followed it up by posting the best record in the regular season. But they had a disappointing early playoff exit this year, which has some thinking Paul’s best chance to win a championship has passed.

Luka Doncic had a sublime performance against the Phoenix Suns in Game 7 of their second-round series. In a win-or-go-home situation, Luka Doncic stepped up big time, as he scored 35 points to lead the Mavericks to a dominant victory over the Suns. Doncic has been touted as one of...

After their embarrassing Game 7 loss to the Dallas Mavericks, the Phoenix Suns are going to have some thinking to do. Many believed that this would finally be the year that Chris Paul would win his first championship ring. Instead, the team lost to the Mavericks at home for the first time since 2019 and will not watch the rest of the playoffs from the comfort of their homes.

Deandre Ayton may have played his last game with the Phoenix Suns on Sunday when he was on the court for just 17 minutes in a 123-90 Game 7 loss to the Dallas Mavericks. The 2018 first overall pick is set to become a restricted free agent this offseason and there is reportedly no shortage of teams interested in acquiring Ayton as a free agent or via trade.

Despite adding point guard James Harden before the trade deadline to pair with superstar Joel Embiid, the Philadelphia 76ers' postseason run ended with a second-round loss to the Miami Heat in six games. ESPN's Brian Windhorst, a guest on Mike Greenberg's ESPN Radio show "Greeny" on Monday, discussed the Sixers'...

The Phoenix Suns had a meltdown for the ages on Sunday night, and things may have come to a head with Deandre Ayton during the loss. The Suns got ran off their home court and lost 123-90 in Game 7 of their Western Conference semifinals series against the Dallas Mavericks. Ayton only played 17 minutes in the game, scoring just five points with four rebounds. He wasn’t even in foul trouble. The Suns center had been playing 31.7 minutes per game this postseason.

Damian Lillard was not a participant in this year’s postseason, but he seemed to have his eye on things. Lillard knows that the Phoenix Suns had a disappointing playoff exit. He may be hoping that one of the Suns’ stars forces his way to the Blazers. Lillard “liked”...

Carson Wentz is now the quarterback for the Washington Commanders. The Commanders are Wentz’s third team in three years. So it goes without saying, the former Philadelphia Eagles and Indianapolis Colts QB is running out of chances. ESPN’s new Monday Night Football broadcast team, Troy Aikman and play-by-play announcer...

The Chicago Bulls had to shut down Lonzo Ball in early April, and the team apparently has serious concerns about the point guard’s knee injury. Ball sustained a small meniscus tear in his left knee in mid-January. He tried to ramp things up as he aimed for a return later in the season, but he suffered a setback in late March. The Bulls had to shut Ball down in early April after he experienced more discomfort when he tried to ramp up again.

This is Albert Pujols’ final MLB season, and he’s making sure to check all items off his bucket list. Pujols went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two walks in his St. Louis Cardinals’ 15-6 win over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday night. But it wasn’t at the dish where he made his biggest contribution.

The Golden State Warriors and the Dallas Mavericks are about to start their Western Conference Finals battle on Wednesday, with the Warriors core trying to get another championship and Luka Doncic trying to establish himself as a true superstar by making it to his first NBA Finals, although he just says he's living his best life . And while it has rightly been billed as a matchup between Luka and Steph Curry, there are a few other players that can swing the series on both sides.

The Phoenix Suns were heavy favorites to win the NBA title when the postseason began, but they were eliminated on Sunday night after a horrendous effort against the Dallas Mavericks. Devin Booker had a very accurate description of the loss. After Phoenix’s 123-90 home loss in Game 7, Booker told...

Luka Doncic spoke about Draymond Green before Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals between the Dallas Mavericks and Golden State Warriors.

Before the start of the Miami series, Celtics forward (and defensive player of the year candidate) Grant Williams took a minute to reflect on the intense 7-game series against Milwaukee. Speaking about the Bucks, and specifically Giannis, he lauded the talent and skill level and even compared Antetokounmpo to prime...

The Dallas Mavericks have grown up before everyone’s eyes over the last few weeks. Entering the NBA playoffs, some thought they would lose to the Utah Jazz, a team that seemed to have more firepower than them, in the first round. But Dallas took care of them in six...