James Harden Said the Most Ridiculous Thing About the Knicks After Cavs Got Swept With a 37-Point Loss Harden felt the Cavs were the better team, even though they didn’t win a game. Sports Illustrated · May 26
Cavaliers Offseason Preview: Donovan Mitchell Decision, James Harden Extension, Giannis Trade Speculation After losing to the Knicks in the Eastern Conference finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers have a busy offseason ahead. Sports Illustrated · May 26
Chris Mannix: What’s Next for the Cavaliers? It’s Time to Call LeBron James After a sweep by New York exposed Cleveland’s flaws, bold moves are necessary and The King has enough reasons to be part of that plan. Sports Illustrated · May 26
Donovan Mitchell Got Animated in the Cavaliers’ Huddle As Knicks Completed Sweep in Cleveland Donovan Mitchell was the only Cavaliers player to show up in Game 4. Sports Illustrated · May 26
NBA Playoffs: Three Takeaways After Knicks Roll Through East for First Finals Trip Since 1999 Jalen Brunson and the Knicks have brought the franchise back to the NBA Finals for the first time in nearly three decades. Sports Illustrated · May 25
Knicks zero in on NBA Finals with third win over Cavs The New York Knicks are one win away from the NBA Finals after storming to another big win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. AAP · May 24
Chris Mannix’s NBA Notes: Inside the Knicks’ Plan to Attack James Harden Plus, why the Mavericks and Jason Kidd parted ways, the latest in Tom Dundon’s cost-cutting measures with the Blazers and an awards season mess. Sports Illustrated · May 21
Cavaliers Meltdown: Three Coaching Blunders by Cleveland That Led to Epic Collapse vs. Knicks The Cavaliers blew a 22-point fourth quarter lead against the Knicks in an epic collapse, and coach Kenny Atkinson did nothing to stop it. Sports Illustrated · May 20
SI:AM | James Harden Made the Knicks’ Historic Comeback Possible The Beard’s lackluster defense allowed Jalen Brunson to take over the fourth quarter and bring New York back from an enormous deficit. Sports Illustrated · May 20
NBA Playoff Takeaways: How Cavaliers Dominated Pistons to Punch Ticket to Eastern Conference Finals Our takeaways from Game 7 as the Cavaliers blew out the top-seeded Pistons to advance to the Eastern Conference finals. Sports Illustrated · May 17
Who Has the Most MVP Awards in NBA History? Full List and More Which player—or players—tops the MVP charts? Sports Illustrated · May 16
James Harden’s Obvious Flop Late in Game 6 Wasn’t Just Egregious—It Killed the Cavaliers’ Comeback Hopes James Harden’s egregious flop late in Game 6 led to Dean Wade’s slip and killed any chances the Cavs had of pulling off a comeback to win the series. Sports Illustrated · May 16
Cavaliers or Pistons in Game 7? X-Factors That Will Determine Who Advances to Eastern Conference Finals Specific areas the Cavaliers and Pistons must focus on to win Game 7 of their series. Sports Illustrated · May 16
Chris Mannix: There’s Only One Decision for LeBron James Despite his insistence that he doesn’t know what the future holds, the superstar found a clear path this season. Sports Illustrated · May 14
Sports Illustrated · May 14 J.B. Bickerstaff Says the Refs Missed a Clear Foul in Crunch Time, and He’s Right to Be Angry The Detroit Pistons lost Game 5 against the Cavaliers thanks in part to a missed call that could have swung the game.
Sports Illustrated · May 13 LeBron James Free Agency Landing Spots: Ranking the Four Most Likely Suitors for Superstar’s Talents If LeBron James wants to play again next season, he will be an unrestricted free agent. Here are the four top landing spots for The King, ranked.
The Economic Times · May 13 Why is Daryl Morey leaving Philadelphia 76ers? Has president of 76ers basketball operations been sacked? Check real reason Daryl Morey joined the 76ers in 2020 following 13 years as the general manager of the Houston Rockets.
Sports Illustrated · May 11 NBA Playoffs: Four Takeaways After Thunder Sweep Lakers, Cavaliers Square Up With Pistons Cleveland revved its engines vs. a sputtering Detroit squad, while the Lakers gave everything they had in a hard-fought finish.
Sports Illustrated · May 8 Four Ugly Stats Show James Harden Is Having a Miserable Playoff Run Game 2 continued a trend for Harden in the playoffs. The stats back it up.
Sports Illustrated · May 7 NBA Playoffs: Four Numbers That Tell the Story of Game 2 of Pistons-Cavs, Lakers-Thunder Cade Cunningham is off to a historic start to his postseason career, while James Harden is making the wrong kind of history.
Sports Illustrated · May 6 How Rockets’ Alperen Şengün Can Rebound From Most Overrated Player Rating The center finished with 12.3% of the vote in The Athletic's anonymous player poll.
Sports Illustrated · May 6 Chet Holmgren Dropped Brutally Honest One-Liner About Facing LeBron James in the Playoffs The 24-year-old never thought he’d be playing against James in the playoffs.
Sports Illustrated · May 6 SI:AM | Pressure Mounts for James Harden as the Cavaliers Drop Game 1 at Detroit Cavaliers’ 19 Turnovers Help Pistons End Post-Season Drought Against Cleveland
Sports Illustrated · May 6 Ranking Every Possible NBA Finals Matchup Remaining As Second Round Gets Underway With the playoffs advancing to the conference semifinal round, we rank each potential NBA Finals matchup from 16 to 1.
Sports Illustrated · May 4 NBA Playoff Power Rankings: How the Final Eight Teams Stack Up Entering Second Round After a wild first round of games, here is how the eight remaining NBA playoff teams compare ahead of the conference semifinals.