Spurs assistant coach James Borrego will sign a four-year agreement to become the new coach of the Charlotte Hornets, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Borrego has been an assistant coach under Gregg Popovich for 10 years in two different stints, and has served as interim head coach for the Orlando Magic.
A final second interception closed the door after Smart stonewalled Dario Saric inside, followed Jayson Tatum’s miss at the rim to tie the game at 109. Then he fed Tatum to put the Celtics ahead for good.
Marcus Smart’s best play didn’t count. It was a tip-in, one second after the shot clock expired, from the three-point line. Most players put shots back one foot from the basket, Smart again proved he is not most players. Of the plays that did count, well, take your pick on which one sealed the series.
The Point God and the Swiss Roll were too much for Utah.
The Houston Rockets put on their best defensive showing of the season in Salt Lake City Sunday night, stonewalling the Utah Jazz to take a 3-1 series lead in the conference semifinals.
LOS ANGELES—Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors will face the Houston Rockets for a place in the NBA finals after the Western Conference heavyweights wrapped up series wins on Tuesday.
Curry led the scoring for the reigning NBA champion Warriors in a 113-104 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans in Oakland, sealing the best-of-seven series 4-1.
The thing about winning a playoff game on the road is that it’s never one thing. On Saturday night, when the Celtics beat the Sixers 101-98 in Philadelphia, there were clutch shots and inexplicable turnovers, brilliant defensive stands and lots and lots of confetti.
In the end there was Al Horford, sealing Robert Covington in the post after a perfect lob pass via Marcus Morris from one of the toughest places to throw a perfect lob pass to the post. The finish wasn’t easy either. Horford contorted his body from one side of the rim to the other, but after his shot rattled around it dropped through as clear as day.
Cleveland now awaits the winner of the 76ers and Celtics series.
With a 128-93 win in Monday night’s Game 4 against the Raptors, the Cavs are headed to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they’ll face the winner of the Celtics-76ers series. Boston currently leads that series 3-1 and has a chance to wrap up the series on Wednesday.
The start of the overtime period between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Boston Celtics in game three was delayed over seven minutes as the confetti cannon operator got a little too excited following what ended up the game tying shot by Marco Belinelli.
The 76ers avoid elimination behind a career night from T.J. McConnell.
Not finished yet.
The 76ers avoided the sweep at Wells Fargo Center with a 103-92 win over the Boston Celtics on Monday night. T.J. McConnell got his first career playoff start and scored a career-high 19 points to force a Game 5 on Wednesday.
The Warriors needed a bounce back game in Game 4 against the Pelicans and that’s exactly what they got. The Pelicans forced the Warriors to start a new lineup they had never started in a game. It’s a lineup that Twitter refers to as the “death lineup” but we learned today that the Warriors refer to themselves at the “Hampton 5”. It’s the lineup of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala. It’s a lineup that the Warriors have used many times in games. Today was the first time we ever saw them as starting unit.
