Author: Rex Villas

LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers is no stranger to coming back from virtual playoff death to NBA nirvana AKA championship. Back in 2016, he led the Cleveland Cavaliers to an NBA title by beating the Golden State Warriors in seven games of that year’s NBA Finals despite being down 3-1 in the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaxkGHsB-NU Los Angeles Lakers Star LeBron James Still Has His Eyes on the Prize vs. Nuggets After James and the Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets at home in Game 4 Saturday night,  119-108, there is a speck of chance that the four-time league MVP just might…

Coming off a shocking 111-101 home loss at the hands of the Miami Heat in Game 2, the Boston Celtics made sure that they won’t suffer the same feat in Game 3 in their first trip to South Beach in the first round of the 2024 NBA Playoffs. The Celtics acted and played like the No. 1 team in the East and the favorite to win the conference title in a 104-84 beatdown of Miami on Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u575fz1tAcw Jaylen Brown Shares Insight on Boston Celtics’ Mindset in Game 3 vs. the Heat Even after their loss in Game 2, the…

Caitlin Clark is the new big face in Indiana pro sports, but before she gets to suit up in her first WNBA game for the Indiana Fever, she got a taste of NBA Playoffs basketball while watching Tyrese Haliburton and the Indiana Pacers go up against the Milwaukee Bucks Friday night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UB77Tthp7I Caitlin Clark Goes Wild After Indiana Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton’s Game-Winner in Game 3 vs Bucks Clark was among the thousands in attendance in Game 3 of the Pacers’ series versus the Bucks and she definitely went home happy after seeing Indiana pull off a 121-118 win via overtime,…

The Indiana Pacers are in front of the Milwaukee Bucks in their first-round series in the playoffs. After losing Game 1, 109-94, the Pacers have stitched together back-to-back victories to go up 2-1 in the series. In Game 3, the Pacers leaned on the heroics of Tyrese Haliburton in the clutch, as the star point guard buried a game-winning floater in overtime to seal the deal and the 121-118 win for Indiana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UB77Tthp7I Indiana Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton Reacts to Huge Bucket in Game 3 vs. Bucks After the game, Haliburton said: “I live for these moments,” referring to his clutch…

The Denver Nuggets are just a win away from completing yet another sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers in the playoffs. Denver defeated the Lakers three times in the regular season and it continues to be the same story for the two Western Conference rivals. While the Lakers struggle to find the right formula to beat Denver, Nuggets star big man Nikola Jokic is already feeling bored of seeing Purple & Gold colors on the floor over and over again in the first round. (h/t CBS Sports) “To be honest, I think every game is tougher and tougher,” Jokic said.…

The Los Angeles Lakers are still alive in the 2024 NBA Playoffs, but fans can start writing their recap of the Purple & Gold’s season. After losing to the Denver Nuggets again in Game 3 at home, 112-105, the Lakers’ season is virtually over as no team in the history of the NBA has ever won a series after losing the first three legs. Lakers fans are understandably upset, and they made sure to make LA head coach Darvin Ham feel their wrath when some of them chanted “Fire Darvin” after Game 3, per Jovan Buha of The Athletic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKay7iNK7yE&pp=ygUMbGFrZXJzIGRlbmVy…

The New York Knicks are not happy not just with the result of Game 3 of their first-round series versus the Philadelphia 76ers, but also with how they feel Sixers star big man Joel Embiid got away with his dangerous actions in the contest. Embiid was called for a flagrant-1 foul when he was caught grabbing the leg of Knicks center Mitchell Robinson in the first half but appeared to have evaded the same type of call on at least one occasion when he did this to New York’s Isaiah Hartenstein: https://twitter.com/BasketNews_com/status/1783737879321038854 Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau was asked after…

The New York Knicks could play Game 4 of their series against the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the 2024 NBA Playoffs without one of their more important players in big man Mitchell Robinson after he suffered an apparent ankle injury during the first half of Thursday night’s Game 3. The injury happened when 76ers star center Joel Embiid grabbed Robinson’s leg for which he was called for a flagrant-1 foul. https://twitter.com/TheNBACentel/status/1783648868422299986 Robinson would later exit the contest with a sprained ankle and was seen wearing a walking boot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ9X89vj5ls Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid Explains Flagrant Foul on…

The Philadelphia 76ers have a pulse. With Joel Embiid relentlessly punishing the New York Knicks on the court in Game 3, the 76ers managed to cut their series deficit in half, as they came away with a 124-114 home win. Embiid put the Sixers on his back and carried them to a huge win that might have just started the shifting of the tide in this entertaining series between Atlantic Division rivals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBOV53i4ndY Joel Embiid Goes Off With Record-Setting Performance in Philadelphia 76ers Win After heartbreaking losses in Games 1 and 2, the 76ers made sure they wouldn’t get pushed…

The Orlando Magic are winless no more in the 2024 NBA Playoffs, thanks in large part to the heroics of Paolo Banchero. In Game 3 of their series against the Cleveland Cavaliers at home on Thursday night, Banchero made sure that he would have a memorable performance in his first career playoff home game, as he scattered 31 points while shooting 13/26 from the floor. It’s the kind of performance from someone his age or younger that the NBA had never seen since Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers back in the 1980 NBA Finals, per StatMuse. The only…