This is the digital version of The Bounce.If you want it earlier, start every day with The Bounce delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Jimmy Butler must pass out some free Big Face Coffee to energize Miami Heat. Can Miami Re-tie Finals? How to win Game 4 Game 4 of the NBA Finals (8:30 p.m. ET …
This is the online version of our daily newsletter, The Morning Win. Subscribe to get irreverent and incisive sports stories, delivered to your mailbox every morning. Here’s Bryan Kalbrosky. Unless you Rock Chalk Jayhawk so freaking hard, you probably didn’t have “The Christian Braun Game” on your NBA Finals bingo card. But the rookie finished with 15 …
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MIAMI — One jarring stat from the NBA Finals isn’t getting nearly enough attention. Here’s the stat, (with a hat tip to Micah Adams): Seven players have averaged 25 points, five rebounds and five assists per game in the playoffs for their career and have at least career 50 playoff games. The first five are …
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Let’s face it: NBA free agency is getting a bit less sexy than it used to be. Remember when players such as LeBron James and Kevin Durant would hold up the rest of the league’s business while taking meetings in early July? Yeah, that doesn’t really happen anymore. The days of generational talent hitting the …
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MIAMI — By this point, in a basketball sense, there is very little Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokić don’t know about each other. Watch them on the floor. Theirs is a partnership born of trust and years of familiarity, They are separate and unique talents as players, who are proverbially joined at the hip when …
MIAMI — It looked like everything was lining up for Caleb Martin to have his moment on Wednesday night. After draining a 3-pointer from the corner, Martin flashed a quick smile toward J. Cole, the rapper who helped him land a spot with the Heat two years ago, as he jogged past his courtside seats. …
Any handwringing and pearl-clutching over the NBA Finals’ TV ratings without traditional big-market teams involved has proven overblown so far. Denver’s 104-93 Game 1 victory on June 1 averaged 11.58 million viewers on ABC while Miami’s 111-108 upset on Sunday night averaged 11.91 million. Both games won all the coveted advertising demographics, as expected. Sunday’s …
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Free agency! Woo hoo! Transaction season has taken on a life of its own in the NBA ecosystem, arguably becoming more popular than the games. With the NBA Finals generating, perhaps, a bit less public fascination than in some other years, that sentiment about transaction season seems particularly true this June. Free agency is much …
DENVER — The Nuggets are like the dynastic Golden State Warriors insofar as they apply enormous pressure on the team trying to guard them. It may look different than the way the Warriors did it, but the strain on the faces of the Miami Heat when they talk about trying to stop a 7-footer who …
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DENVER – The Miami Heat have already taken down a No. 1 seed in the 2023 NBA playoffs, and they’re on the board toward doing it again. The eighth-seeded Heat evened the NBA Finals on Sunday by knocking off the Denver Nuggets in Game 2, 111-108. Help came from all corners to beat the Nuggets …
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