It was the year of the long winning streak in the NBA. There were five instances of teams winning 11 or more games in a row — ...

Will the Heat be able to challenge the second-best team in the league without Jimmy Butler igniting their offense?

There are four matchups — Indiana-Milwaukee and New York-Detroit in the East, the Los Angeles Lakers-Minnesota and Denver-the ...

If the regular season was any indication, the East and West championships will run through Cleveland and Oklahoma City.

The Thunder, who won an league-high 68 games this season, look for the franchise's second NBA title, the first one won by the ...

Oklahoma City ... 1 of the West playoffs. Cleveland will play either Atlanta, Chicago or Miami in Round 1 of the East playoffs. Sometime Friday night, the Thunder and Cavaliers will finally ...

Detroit’s best pathway to victory is if the Knicks start running out of players, but we’re early in the playoffs for that, ...

The NBA playoffs begin Saturday with four games, including the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Oklahoma City Thunder had the best ... and the upstart Cleveland Cavaliers (+600). Advertisement The Thunder had the top seed in the Western Conference last year as well but went out to ...