[Charania] BREAKING: The Orlando Magic have dismissed head coach Jamahl Mosley, sources tell ESPN. Mosley’s tenure in Orlando finishes after five seasons, including three consecutive playoff runs from 2023 to 2026. Orlando had a first-round elimination for the third straight time Sunday.
[Charania] BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are hiring Masai Ujiri as the franchise’s new Team President and Alternate Governor, sources tell me and @BannedMacMahon. Ujiri ran the Toronto Raptors from 2013 to 2025, serving as the architect of the 2019 NBA championship team.
[Charania] Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards was a significant participant in Timberwolves shootaround this morning and wants to return in Game 1 against the San Antonio Spurs, sources tell ESPN. Edwards is pushing to play, but he and the team’s medical staff will make a decision later today.
Bill Simmons: “I had to drop Joker on my pyramid two spots… right at the end of the top level of the pantheon, there’s four centers clustered together (Hakeem, Shaq, Joker, Moses). I have Joker 14, Moses 15. I think Hakeem and Shaq have to be above him at this point”
Jaylen Brown: “Flopping has ruined our league. Joel Embiid is one of the greatest players that has played basketball, but he flops. He knows it too.”
The Detroit Pistons, Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks or Philadelphia 76ers will make the NBA Finals
Maxey and Wemby playing 1v1 back in 2022. Wemby insisted on only playing defense and Maxey wanted to practice going up against an incredibly tall and mobile defender.
[Highlight] Inside the NBA reveals their “Gone Fishing” graphic for Boston
Another clip from the legendary livestream today - Jaylen Brown says this year was his “favorite year of his basketball career”
THE ORLANDO MAGIC HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM THE 2026 PLAYOFFS
[Post Game Thread] The Cleveland Cavaliers clinches Game 7, defeating the Toronto Raptors to move on to the second round, 112-104.
[McMahon and Shelbourne] Harden’s representatives gauged the Rockets’ interest in him following the LA Clippers’ 6-21 start…Once again, though, the Rockets decided against it, despite the team’s void at point guard.
Austin Reaves in his media availability earlier today about SGA’s foul drawing ability - “He wants to win and is gonna do whatever it takes to win. If it’s shoot 20 free throws, so be it. If I shoot 20 free throws, I’d be happy.”
Brian Windhorst on Luka: “He is not close. There is a whole ramp up that’s required when you are coming back from a hamstring. He has not started that contact ramp up yet”
Jaylen Brown says the refs have an agenda against him: “They clearly had an agenda, maybe because I spoke so critical on them in the regular season. I spoke to some refs and they told me there’s an agenda going on each game every time Jaylen brings him arm up just call it.”
BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are hiring Masai Ujiri as the franchise’s new Team President and Alternate Governor, sources tell me and @BannedMacMahon. Ujiri ran the Toronto Raptors from 2013 to 2025, serving as the architect of the 2019 NBA championship team.
Paolo Banchero on if the Magic are good enough to reach the next level: “I want to say yes, but we haven’t been out of the first round, so if you’re going off the last three years, the answer is no.”
Steven Adams on his reputation as the strongest in the NBA: “I don’t know who’s voting…It didn’t help me because the referees believed this too, so then I get cracked a lot and they’re just like “Oh you’re strong bro, you can get through it bro” and I’m just like call the foul! come on please!”
Paolo Banchero did everything he could in a Game 7 loss: 38/9/6 on 14⁄25 shooting, 4⁄7 from 3
[Vorkunov] 76ers are restricting ticket sales for their home games against the Knicks to greater Philadelphia residents, they said on their website: “Orders by residents outside Greater Philadelphia area will be canceled without notice and refunds given.”
Paolo Banchero was ‘frustrated’ with Jamahl Mosley’s decision to take the ball out of his hands in late-game situations down the stretch.
[Post Game Thread] The Detroit Pistons (4-3) defeat the Orlando Magic (3-4), 116-94, as the Pistons complete the 3-1 comeback!
Jarrett Allen with a monster performance in game 7: 22 PTS, 19 REB, 2 AST, 2 STL, 3 BLK
The Minnesota Timberwolves are the only remaining playoff team with no championship title
THE TORONTO RAPTORS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM PLAYOFF CONTENTION!
[Hine] Anthony Edwards has been cleared for on-court basketball activities and will be listed as questionable ahead of Game 1 tomorrow. A huge development for the Wolves.
Scottie Barnes in 7 games against the Cleveland Cavaliers: 24.1 points, 6.1 rebounds, 8.6 assists | 1.1 Steals | 1.7 Blocks | On 50.9⁄38.1⁄79.6 splits
Jaylen Brown continues his criticism of the reffing during the Sixers-Celtics series: “If I had to say there’s some referees that need to be investigated…we had 3 of them in the last 3 games”
Jaylen Brown gets upset seeing PG do a push-off: “Everybody does this but when it’s me it’s an offensive foul. They clearly had an agenda, I don’t know if it’s because I pissed the refs off and called them out. Some bullshit, I’ve been doing it all regular season and you call that shit on me always”
[Zach Lowe Show] Ringer’s Michael Pina - “Obviously the Knicks had a really great matchup against the Atlanta Hawks and a small front court.” Two weeks earlier Pina picked the Hawks to win the series because they matched up well with New York.
After Detroit went down 3-1 to Orlando, Cade Cunningham averaged 36.3⁄5.0/6.7 and 2.7 stocks on 68.3% TS to win 3 straight games and win the playoff series
[Charania] The Dallas Mavericks have agreed to hire Masai Ujiri as their team president and alternate governor, landing a lead basketball executive with proven champion experience after a six-month search process, sources told ESPN.
[Charania] The Denver Nuggets are expected to take calls on everyone on their roster ‘except Nikola Jokic’ as they head into a summer expected to bring ‘real roster changes.’
To everyone who was asking for the NBA to revert to a best of 5 series for round 1 because the results were already obvious…
[Highlight] The Cavaliers fans in the arena start singing “Hey, hey, goodbye” at the end of game 7.
The Ringer Made NBA Finals Predictions. None Survived the First Round.
[NBA.com] Players in NBA history to total 225+ PTS and 50+ AST in a single playoff series: Cade Cunningham (Round 1, 2026) Giannis Antetokounmpo (Round 2, 2021) Luka Dončić (Round 1, 2021) LeBron James (Round 1, 2018 and Conference Finals, 2018) Jerry West (NBA Finals, 1969) Oscar Robertson (Conf…
[Stein] ESPN’s top executives have been lobbying Kerr aggressively to convince him to return to NBA broadcasting
The Toronto Raptors have never won a playoff series against the Cleveland Cavilers
[Highlight] LeBron was really not happy with Şengün talking
Since the parity era began (2019) no team has won the title more than once. This year 3 of the 4 teams in the conference finals would continue that streak.
Is Paolo Banchero the current player with the largest gap between his floor and ceiling?
Bill Simmons: “I thought Mazzulla was incredible in the Regular Season… but I don’t know what they were thinking for these Playoffs… I really think Mazzulla screwed the series up and I’m always going to think that.”
Mitchell Robinson says the NBA talked to him about his social media posts after the Knicks’ win in Game 6. What were those conversations like? “Honestly, I forgot. I wasn’t paying attention.”
On April 27, 2003 and April 27, 2026, the #8 seed Orlando Magic took a 3–1 lead over the #1 seed Detroit Pistons… the Magic lost the series both times.
Tobias Harris in the second quarter: 17 points on 6⁄8 FG
[Highlight] Jarrett Allen gets his own FT miss and scores to wrap up “Allen’s quarter”
Wemby on the legacy he would like to leave behind him