NEW YORK (AP) — Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert and MVP finalists Giannis Antetokounmpo and Paul George were the leading vote-getters for the All-Defensive first team. Boston’s Marcus Smart and Milwaukee’s Eric Bledsoe rounded out the first team that was announced Wednesday. Gobert finished with 97 first-team points […]
HOUSTON (AP) — In a series where their shots weren’t falling like normal, the Houston Rockets managed to close it out with some tough defense. James Harden scored 26 points and the Rockets outlasted the Utah Jazz 100-93 on Wednesday night to win their first-round playoff series 4-1. Houston advanced […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Donovan Mitchell turned a rough start into a fantastic finish. Mitchell dominated in the fourth quarter, rallying the Utah Jazz to a 107-91 victory over the Houston Rockets in Game 4 of their Western Conference series on Monday night. Mitchell scored 19 of his 31 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — James Harden never worried. In fact, he didn’t know he had missed his first 15 shots. Through it all, he never changed the attacking style that made him the NBA’s leading scorer. Harden overcame a poor shooting performance and scored 14 of his 22 points […]
HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden put on an MVP performance with 32 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists to lead the Houston Rockets to a second straight rout of the Utah Jazz, 118-98, on Wednesday night for a 2-0 lead in the first-round playoff series. Harden, who recorded his third […]
HOUSTON (AP) — The Utah Jazz tried to force the left-handed James Harden to his right to make things more difficult on him on Game 1 of their first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets on Sunday night. Didn’t matter much to Harden and the Rockets though. He still led […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Clippers won 48 games and made the playoffs without any current or former All-Stars on the roster. Their reward? Getting the defending champion Golden State Warriors in the first round. “We got a battle ahead of us and it’s about locking in,” said Montrezl Harrell, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Donovan Mitchell got fired up after being told he wasn’t playing good enough. Mitchell matched his career high with 46 points and led the Utah Jazz to a 118-108 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday night. Mitchell was 14 of 26 from the field […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Jazz guard Kyle Korver is making headlines after his essay about white privilege was published on the Player’s Tribune. Korver addresses race in the NBA and our country and his role in both as a white person. He stated that last month’s heckling incident involving […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and the Los Angeles Lakers have been out of playoff contention for the past month. They’re still playing a role in shaping the Western Conference bracket. Caldwell-Pope scored 32 points Sunday night as the short-handed Lakers snapped Utah’s seven-game winning streak with a 113-109 […]
