Basketball Daily Dose: Dose: Warriors move on The Hornets pulled off a huge win on the road to take a 3-2 lead over the Heat, the Blazers beat the star-less Clippers in L.A. for a 3-2 lead, and the Rockets rolled over for the Warriors as their series ended with a Golden State 4-1 win. Yeah, it was a weird night without some of the stars out there. As I posted on Twitter on Wednesday, there have … [Read more...]

Rivers brought to tears: Mom would've helped 1:44 AM ET Associated Press print LOS ANGELES -- Clippers coach Doc Rivers' eyes welled with tears and he became choked up before his team played Portland in Game 5 of their first-round series. During his pregame availability Wednesday night, Rivers was asked who he leans on to get through after losing injured stars Blake Griffin and … [Read more...]

Courtney Lee keeps the faith, stuns Heat to give Hornets 3-2 lead You know, for a 6-foot-5 shooting guard, Courtney Lee sure seems to be a pretty important offensive rebounder. [Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] Two nights after grabbing a crucial carom of a Kemba Walker miss with four seconds left to help ice the Charlotte Hornets' Game 4 win to even … [Read more...]

Walton interview with Lakers OK'd by Warriors 9:54 PM ET Associated Press print OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Lakers received permission from the Golden State Warriors to interview top assistant Luke Walton for their coaching vacancy. Golden State coach Steve Kerr said Wednesday before Game 5 of the playoffs against Houston that Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak … [Read more...]

Nick Young saved from tattoo near-fail 9:37 PM ET print Nick Young is a lot of things. He's a shooting guard who averaged 7.3 points per game for the Los Angeles Lakers this past season. He's a player who likes to celebrate, sometimes a bit too early. And, outside of basketball circles, he's the fiancé of rapper Iggy Azalea. And thanks to her, Young avoided what would've been a highly … [Read more...]

The Memphis Grizzlies? Gone till November. It’s to the Memphis Grizzlies’ great credit that the team wasn’t regarded as a laughingstock in NBA circles this year. The team was never widely mocked for fielding 28 players this season, for being swept by an average of 22 points per game in the first round, or for relying so heavily on Vince Carter and Jordan Farmar in the postseason. [Follow … [Read more...]

Bosh still wants to play; Heat noncommittal 4:22 PM ET Brian WindhorstESPN Senior Writer Close ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books print Chris Bosh and his wife appeared to break weeks of silence about his status with the Miami Heat with social media posts Tuesday that reaffirmed his desire to return to the court. But the Heat … [Read more...]

Charles Barkley apologizes to the Rockets owner, CEO, GM (Video) Every since John Stockton hit a Western Conference finals-winning three-pointer over him in 1997, Charles Barkley has had a contentious relationship with the Houston Rockets, the last of three NBA teams the Hall of Famer played for. [Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] The next season saw … [Read more...]

The Kings really are paying for fans' tattoos of their new logos The Sacramento Kings received widespread praise on Tuesday for unveiling a sharp new set of logos as part of a franchise rebrand that will include new uniforms for the Kings to wear when they begin playing in their brand new arena this fall. But do you like the new logos, or do you, like, like-like the new logos? [Follow Dunks … [Read more...]

Hawks clobber Celtics in Game 5 despite major early scoring woes The final score of the Atlanta Hawks' series-tilting 110-83 win over the Boston Celtics in Game 5 of their series suggests that the game was one-sided and the result was rarely in doubt. Yet the margin of victory does not communicate the depths of the Celtics' disappointing performance in this pivotal game, because they very … [Read more...]