[Post Game Thread] The Atlanta Hawks with the complete comeback win and steal a game in MSG behind CJ McCollum 32 points.(1-1) & defeat the New York Knicks (1-1), 107-106.
[Charania] San Antonio Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama has won the 2025-26 NBA Defensive Player of the Year award. He is the youngest player in league history to win the award.
[Highlight] CJ McCollum when asked how tonight’s performance played into his villain status with Knicks fans: “I ain’t no villain. I’m a nice guy with two kids and a wife.”
[Post Game Thread] The Minnesota Timberwolves steal a game in the Mile High City and Survive the Free throw line(1-1) defeat the Denver Nuggets (1-1), 119-114.
Victor Wembanyama is the first ever unanimous DPOY winner
Rudy Gobert with possibly the most impactful 2 PTS | 7 REB | 2 STL of all time as he locks up Jokic for the win late in the 4th
[Highlight] Jamal Murray ties the game at half from 3⁄4 court
Victor Wembanyama on being the first-ever unanimous DPOY and the youngest player to win the award: “It feels great… The real struggle may have been getting to 65 games. But I am super proud to be the first unanimous.”
[Highlight] Tim Hardaway Jr. reacts to a foul call
Chris Finch on officiating: “The league’s in a place right now where you draw the contact, spill away, and get rewarded. Guys who try to play through contact … stay with the drive, they tend not to be rewarded … Maybe we ought to start flopping too.”
[Hine] Jaden McDaniels, deadpan delivery, on what worked for the Timberwolves offensively. Jaden: “Go at Jokic, Jamal, all the bad defenders. Tim Hardaway, Cam Johnson, Aaron Gordon, their whole team.” Q: They’re all bad defenders? Jaden: “Yeah, they’re all bad defenders.”
Every documented incident involving Shaquille O’Neal, his own feces, and his teammates
[Stein] This means Utah’s lottery pick CANNOT fall lower than No. 8 in the May 10th lottery … so the Jazz are assured of retaining their top-eight-protected pick in the first round rather than sending it to Oklahoma City.
Brandon “me shooting 9 shots is not going to win basketball games” Ingram goes 3-15 from the field in game 2.
[Post Game Thread] The Cleveland Cavaliers (2-0) defeat the Toronto Raptors (0-2), 115-105.
[Highlight] CJ McCollum misses both FT’s, but the Knicks don’t take a timeout and can’t convert on the fastbreak. Atlanta wins!
[Highlight] CJ McCollum hits another jumper, NAW steals the ball from Brunson, and Jalen Johnson scores for a 4-pt Hawks lead with 10s remaining
LeBron James is closer in age to Michael Jordan than he is to Cooper Flagg.
Jokic in 4th quarter against the Timberwolves l 2 PTS | 3 REB | 1 AST | 1⁄7 FG | 0/2 3FG | 21% TS
[Guillory] Alperen Sengun talked about this video at practice today: “I just saw that video today. Everybody was sending it to me. It’s kind of funny. I was just trying to get something out of my pocket. That’s why I got up. No disrespect to LeBron. … but I didn’t stand up for him.”
Jonathan Kuminga in the win: 19⁄4 with 2 steals on 7⁄12 FG
Joe Mazzulla on being in contention for Coach of the Year: “I haven’t made one basket all year. Our staff hasn’t made a basket. We haven’t gotten a block. We haven’t ran back on defense. We didn’t play in a back-to-back. We didn’t have to play hurt. We haven’t really done shit.”
[Highlight] The Timberwolves seal the win over the Nuggets
[Highlight] Up 1, with 5.6 seconds remaining, CJ McCollum misses both clutch free throws, the Knicks don’t take a timeout and Mikal Bridges misses the potential game-winning jumper, and the Hawks game 2, tying the series
Jaden McDaniels: We go at Jokic, go at Jamal, all the bad defenders. Tim Hardaway, Cam Johnson, Aaron Gordon, their whole team.
Stein on cost-cutting by new Blazers owner Tom Dundon: “You cannot, as an owner, get a reputation for skimping on spending. That is going to get your franchise in a lot of trouble… Players are well aware of this chatter already. Coaches are talking about this.”
Chris Finch:“It’s a joke that he wasn’t a finalist for Defensive Player of the Year. I thought it was incredibly disrespectful. It’s just laughable and small minded and petty all the crap that people decide to give Rudy”
[Charania] More award history: Wembanyama is the first ever unanimous DPOY.
CJ McCollum full postgame interview on the court, after the Hawks stunned the Knicks in MSG, in game 2.
“I’m not a villain, I’m here to compete.”
[Highlight] Murray’s shot doesn’t go, and DiVincenzo punctuates a win for Minnesota!
Jakob Poeltl in the loss vs Cleveland: 2/4/1 in 9 minutes, $104 Million extension hasn’t begun
[Highlight] Tim Hardaway Jr. dives for an incredible save out of bounds, then hustles takes a charge. Back-to-back hustle plays from Hardaway
Did Rudy Gobert just put up the greatest 2 point, 7 rebound, 1ast, 2 stl, and 0 block game of all time?
[Highlight] Jaden McDaniels is called for the foul on a dunk attempt by Christian Braun, the Timberwolves with unsuccessful challenge, and the announcers don’t agree with the call (with replays)
(APPRECIATION) Nuggets vs. Wolves is Absolute Cinema.
[Highlight] “Altercation” occurs after Mitch Robinson steps over Dyson Daniels
Victor Wembanyama on if he feels the weight of Tim Duncan and David Robinson as Spurs franchise legends: “I wouldn’t say, weight, no, I would say, I feel safe. It feels like if you trip, you know there’s a lot of hands that are ready to catch you.”
Nikola Jokic in the fourth quarter of game 2: 2 points on 1⁄7 from the field and 0/2 from 3
[Highlight] CJ McCollum hits the step back jumper to give the Hawks the lead with 33.3 seconds remaining
[Weiss] Victor Wembanyama becomes the first-ever unanimous DPOY in NBA history. Opponents shot just 40.7 percent from the field against him and 8.7 percentage points worse than average when he was the closest defender.
Anthony Edwards postgame after reading his boxscore in a win over Denver: “I’m a*s bro, f*ck.”
[Foul] Rudy Gobert picks up his fifth foul as Nikola Jokić tumbles to the floor.
Is it crazy to say Wolves-Nuggets is already an all-time great rivalry?
Bill Simmons on Blazers’ owner’s extreme cost-cutting measures: “And if I was a Portland fan, I’d feel good about the team… except now we just had El Cheapo take over the team, and this guy’s like, ‘You know what, Donald Sterling had some good ideas… the way Sterling cut costs was pretty smart.’ ”
CJ McCOLLUM IN THE HAWKS WIN: 32 PTS | 6 AST | 3 REB | 2 STL | 1 BLK on 12-22 FG, 3-10 3 PT FG, including the incredible stepback middy to give Atlanta the lead and eventual comeback win to even the series! +9 in 35 minutes and 5-7 FT.
[Highlight] The Timberwolves get the stop on defense and Donte DiVincenzo seals the game with a slam dunk as Minnesota defeats Denver 119-114 to take Game 2 and tie the series 1-1.
Anthony Edwards steals home court advantage from the Nuggets despite the inefficiency: 30/10/2 | 1 steal | 2 blocks
[ESPN] Sheel Tyle, co-owner of the Blazers, posted on X that “we are doing something else [instead of t-shirts],” but the team hasn’t said or posted anything further on the matter.