It's Siakam Night folks ! Raptors beat Celtics 100-93 to even East semifinals at 2-2

Pascal Siakam had 23 points and 11 rebounds, Kyle Lowry added 22 points and 11 boards and the Raptors evened the Eastern Conference semifinal at two games apiece, beating the Boston Celtics 100-93 on Saturday.

Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone has criticized the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) policy that prevents the families of coaches entering the bubble-like campus near Orlando, where the season resumed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Denver has run over the Clippers across the second half of the game. Nuggets lead wire-to-wire, top Clippers to tie series at 1

The Miami Heat did it again — and have the Milwaukee Bucks, the No. 1 overall seed in the NBA playoffs, on the brink of leaving the bubble weeks earlier than they anticipated. The biggest fourth-quarter margin in NBA playoff history 115-100 to take a 3-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

David “Smokey” Gaines, the former Harlem Globetrotters and ABA player who coached at Detroit-Mercy and San Diego State, has died. He was 80.

The Brooklyn Nets hired Steve Nash as their coach Thursday, putting the Hall of Fame point guard in charge of the team that hopes to have Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving together next season.

The Houston Rockets take on the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference second round with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Rockets won the previous matchup 112-97. James Harden scored 36 points to help lead Houston to the victory and Anthony Davis totaled 25 points in defeat for Los Angeles.

Kawhi Leonard scored 29 points and the Los Angeles Clippers rolled past the Denver Nuggets 120-97 on Thursday night in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals.