Author: Michael

LeBron James continues to want people to believe he’s not a huge flopper.
The Lakers are currently up 3-2 against the Warriors in the playoffs, and there’s been some not-so-subtle digs at Los Angeles for a team that is embracing flopping to get an edge.
Flopping is a part of sports, especially basketball and soccer. It happens, but some people take it to a new level.
Enter LeBron James.

My @NBAonTNT report on Lakers’ player response to Steve Kerr’s claim of flopping: “Let them [expletive] and complain…” pic.twitter.

LSU basketball star Flau’jae Johnson addressed the backlash she’s facing with a short statement Thursday night.
The young basketball star has been facing criticism after she flippantly rapped about the Twin Towers coming down on 9/11 in a new song she dropped and later deleted earlier in the week.
LSU originally released a statement claiming “she expressed sincere remorse for any possibility of a misunderstanding and immediately took the video down.” However, she later liked tweets seeming to indicate she wasn’t remorseful at all.

After making a major splash with Kevin Durant, Phoenix heads to the offseason with salary-cap issues and few quality assets at its disposal.

Nikola Jokic had a triple-double as Nuggets defeated Suns to advance to the Western Conference Finals.

Sixers star Joel Embiid said his team will be ready when the Eastern Conference finals resumes in 72 hours after a disappointing 95-86 Game 6 loss to the Boston Celtics on Thursday.

It cannot be understated how poorly Celtics star Jayson Tatum played through the first 43 minutes against the Sixers on Thursday night. But when it mattered most, he was at his best to force a Game 7 in Boston.

Last June, in the days following the Celtics’ Finals loss to Golden State, Jayson Tatum went dark. Friends couldn’t reach him. Most family, either. His longtime trainer, Drew Hanlen, said he had never gone more than a week without at least a text from Tatum. This was longer. When Tatum finally reemerged he was stunned by how often he was congratulated for a successful season. What are you congratulating me for, Tatum wondered. We lost.
Nearly a year later, Tatum faced the possibility of an even darker summer.

The Phoenix Suns have suffered a blowout loss at home in a second-round elimination game for the second season in a row under coach Monty Williams.

Nikola Jokic and Denver made it clear early that they were on a mission to finish the series in Game 6. Now they await the winner of Warriors-Lakers.

The 76ers fell short of clinching a series victory Thursday night after dropping Game 6 to the Celtics at home, a loss that renewed the conversation around one of the most dubious stats of Sixers coach Doc Rivers’s career.
Boston rallied behind an impressive 16-point fourth quarter from star Jayson Tatum to beat Philadelphia, 95–86, and extend the Eastern Conference semifinal series to Game 7.