AMA: Indiana Pacers guard Andrew Nembhard will be answering your questions during an AMA on Thursday, May 21st at 4:00 PM ET.
LeBron on the loss to OKC: “We were not out worked. They didn’t out physical us. They didn’t outsmart us. I feel like we were just out talented, you know, by OKC. They just possess so much more talent.”
[Lowlight] Isaiah Hartenstein pulls Stephon Castle by the hair
[Highlight] Stephon Castle destroys Isaiah Hartenstein with the poster (with replay)
[Highlight] Stephon Castle’s hair gets pulled by Isaiah Hartenstein, no call, and Jared McCain hits the 3-pointer (with a replay of the pull)
[Highlight] Compilation of Isaiah Hartenstein grabbing, holding, and grappling with Victor Wembanyama
With Cedric Coward Making First Team All-Rookie, the Memphis Grizzlies have Officially Selected 8 All-Rookies in the Past 8 Drafts
Carter Bryant using the public restroom mid-game
[Highlight] Harrison Barnes called for a foul on Isaiah Joe
[Lowlight] Upon replay, Jared McCain clearly grabs Stephon Castle’s wrist to win the tip
In the 2021-22 the Sacramento Kings point guards were De’Aaron Fox, Tyrese Haliburton & Davion Mitchell. This past year the point was handled by Westbrook and Devin Carter. Is there a worse front office?
Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert turns grief over son’s rare disease into search for a cure
Reggie Miller: “I guarantee you, between all the clenching Hartenstein has done versus Wemby, and now that. The league is gonna take a long look”
[Highlight] Stephon Castle straight murders Hartenstein with the poster
[Highlight] Isaiah Hartenstein holding Victor Wembanyama
SGA on Hartenstein’s impact tonight: “I’m not sure it was good”
LeBron on SGA winning MVP: “One of the most efficient campaigns we’ve seen. He’s very deserving and nobody can say ‘How the hell did Shai win again?’. He does things to a defense that you have to simply account for. He’s number 1 and two and three on that scouting report and the head of the snake.”
Victor Wembanyama watches SGA lift the MVP trophy in front of him
[Post Game Thread] The Oklahoma City Thunder (1-1) tie the series in Game 2 against the San Antonio Spurs (1-1), 122-113, behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s 30 point performance
[Lowlight] Julian Champagnie hesitates on the three-pointer, allowing Isaiah Joe to sell the flop
[Highlight] Victor Wembanyama is called for the foul, as he is entangled with Isaiah Hartenstein. The Spurs successfully challenge the call, and Hartenstein receives his early 2nd foul
With a replay.
[NBA] That time Wemby showed us his POV on a basketball court
[Charania] Spurs’ De’Aaron Fox is expected to miss his second consecutive contest in Game 2 tonight against the Oklahoma City Thunder due to a right high ankle sprain, sources tell ESPN.
[Highlight] Victor Wembanyama blocks Chet Holmgren under the rim, gets called for the foul (3rd foul), and the Spurs use their second and last challenge to successfully overturn it.
3rd block for Wemby.
With replays.
NBA PR: The San Antonio Spurs’ double-overtime victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder to open the Western Conference Finals delivered the highest average viewership for a Western Conference Finals Game 1 on record, averaging 9.2 million viewers on NBC/Peacock
[Melnick] “Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a -35.6 net on-off rating in this year’s playoffs,” which “is the lowest mark of any qualified player still remaining in the postseason.”
[Russo] Stephon Castle now has the most turnovers (19) over any 2-game stretch in NBA postseason history.
[Charania] 2025-2026 NBA All-Rookie teams: First team: Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper, Kon Knueppel, VJ Edgecombe, Cedric Coward. Second team: Ace Bailey, Jeremiah Fears, Collin Murray-Boyles, Maxime Raynaud, Derik Queen
Jeff Teague: “Shoutout to JJ Redick. People are taking his blueprint on how to stop SGA, and applying it. He changed the whole way of guarding OKC. This might hurt OKC going forward, and their whole trajectory of being a dynasty. That way of guarding him may have messed up everything”
Reporter: “Are we already at a Game 5 level of attrition?” Mark Daigneault: No, we’re at game 2 and game 3 is coming up next, and, game 5 will be after game 4 and because the teams split, there will be a game 5.”
Shai on telling Jared McCain to calm down: “Jared was yelling at me while I was shooting, and I was just like bro, I’m shooting, don’t distract me.”
Carmelo Anthony invites Jeremy Lin on his podcast: “Jeremy Lin, I’m giving you my invite to come sit on the couch. Let’s have a conversation, let’s clear the air on a lot of bullshit that’s out there please… Come speak the truth.”
[Chaudhary] “When I was in Golden State and we played Houston, we counted James Harden’s dribbles. We told our guys he’s dribbling close to 1000 times a game,” Brown said. He added, “Keep picking him up full court and making him dribble. At the end of the game, it would wear him down.”
SGA says “calm the fuck down” after sinking the jumper
SGA clarifies earlier comments on Hartenstein: “I didn’t really hear her. And then once I realized what she said, I gave her the right answer. I heard it wrong what she said”
[Highlight] SGA shakes Carter Bryant and drills the mid range jumper
[Highlight] Stephon Castle with a monster poster dunk on Isaiah Hartenstein (with replays)
Victor Wembanyama despite the refs in game 2: 21 PTS, 17 REB, 6 AST, 1 STL, 4 BLK
[ESPN] Timberwolves seeking leap to NBA’s top tier, team president Tim Connelly says | “We know our competition is not going to sit still, and nor will we,” Connelly said. “If we mess up, we’ll mess up loudly. We’re going to try to be as aggressive as possible.”
[Highlight] Spurs off-ball defense on Shai in the fourth quarter of Game 2
[Haynes] San Antonio Spurs guard Dylan Harper (right leg) is out for the remainder of tonight’s game.
Cason Wallace in the win: 12/4/4/4 on 100% TS
[Highlight] Victor Wembanyama beats Isaiah Hartenstein to the rebound, gets hit in the face by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and still cashes the three-pointer (with replay)
Alex Caruso in the win: 17/3/5 on 97% TS
[Injury] Dylan Harper heads back to the locker room after tweaking hamstring
Mike Brown is questionable with calf soreness after trying to call timeout at the end of regulation last night, but says he’s good to go for Game 2: “I would’ve blown my Achilles out if I didn’t have on my PF Flyers.”
Stephon Castle has 20 turnovers through two games of the Western Conference Finals
LeBron on sga winning mvp: “i think hes very deserving and nobody can sit here and say how did shai win again.”
[Highlights] All sga’s buckets from yesterday