We’re back today with NBA playoff basketball featuring some of our favorite matchups here at Basketball Forever. With the help of advanced simulations and machine learning, our Basketball Forever bot has run thousands of simulations on every game to pinpoint our best playoff player bets for tonight’s slate. **1. JAYLEN BROWN OVER 3.5 TOTAL ASSISTS…
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav confirmed that talks with the NBA to keep games on TNT are ongoing. NBC has offered the NBA $2.5 billion per season to essentially replace TNT as the league’s other primary partner alongside ESPN. Amazon will likely enter as a partner for the NBA and broadcast both the NBA…
The Timberwolves are dominating the Western Conference’s semifinals and this is definitely getting under the Nuggets players’ skins, as both Jamal Murray and coach Michael Malone threw fits in their Game 2 loss on Monday. In the guard’s case, he should’ve been called for a technical foul, although not ejected, after he insulted the officials….
Here is the last round review presented by Job Market. The most surprising game was a loss of top-ranked Efes (25-5) in Istanbul on Monday night. Hosts were defeated by ninth-ranked Bursaspor (14-15) 98-90. 24 personal fouls committed by Anadolu Efes helped opponents get some easy free throw opportunities. American point guard Erick Neal (178-1995,…
Photo: Minnesota Timberwolves/Twitter Gilbert Arenas, a former NBA All-Star, criticized Timberwolves defensive star Rudy Gobert for missing Monday’s Game 2 win against the Nuggets in their second-round playoff series due to the birth of his baby boy Monday morning. He suggested that Gobert’s absence for the birth was unnecessary, stating that the baby would still…
First it was Charles Barkley, and now NBA analyst and LeBron’s former Cavs teammate Kendrick Perkins has joined him in saying that LeBron James should retire very soon. Perkins stressed that it’s not because he doesn’t want to see the league’s all-time greatest scorer keep playing. But because he thinks the longer LeBron continues his…
Christian Wood has decided to exercise his $3 million player option for the 2024-25 season with the Los Angeles Lakers. He originally signed a two-year contract with the Lakers, which included a player option for the upcoming season. During his first season with the team, Wood played in 50 games. He maintained averages of 6.9…
There ain’t no stopping Jalen Brunson now, as he continues to lead the Knicks into what seems destined to be historic run into title contention. The guard is posting the highest stats ever displayed by a New York player in a playoff scenario, as he just produced his fourth-straight 40+ point game. To top it…
NBA legend Charles Barkley is confident that the Minnesota Timberwolves will not only eliminate the defending champions, the Denver Nuggets, in the Western Conference semifinals, but predicts a sweep. Barkley’s comments came after the Wolves dominated the Nuggets in Game 2, winning comfortably by 26 points and allowing just 80 points. “This series is a…
It was a move everyone saw coming when the Lakers fired Darvin Ham last week, but not everyone agrees it was the right decision. One of those people is ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, who believes Ham wasn’t deserving of the treatment he received. “He got screwed,” Smith said on First Take. “It was the wrong…
