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25 Apr, 2015

Warriors 109-98 Pelicans Game 4

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The Warriors win 109-98. Curry scores 39 points, Thompson scores 25 points and Green scores a double-double (22 points and ten rebounds). Davis scores a double-double (36 points and 11 rebounds), Gordon scores 29 points and Anderson scores 10 points for the Pelicans. Golden States win West First Round Series 4-0.

Davis on Curry:

I knew he was crafty, I mean, a great shooter. There’s nothing you can do. You try to pressure him and run him off the (3-point) line and he’ll hit incredible shots in the lane. You back off so he won’t drive, he’s going to hit a 3. So you’ve got to pick your poison and he’s a tough player to guard. That’s why he’s (a candidate) for MVP.

Curry on Golden State sweeps series:

I’m proud of the way we played, the way we competed. Four in a row is a good feeling. We’re going to rest up.

Coach Williams on Curry:

What we’ve been through playing against Steph sometimes, it’s not fair. Steph is like, he’s on a different level – some of the shots he makes, his command of the ball, his ability to finish. The moment doesn’t bother him.

Bucks 92-90 Bulls Game 3

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Bucks win 92-90. Mayo scores 18 points, Dudley scores 13 points and five assists and Antetokounmpo scores ten points and eight rebounds. Butler scores 33 points, Gasol scores a double-double (16 points, ten rebounds) and Rose scores 14 points, six assists for the Bulls. Chicago leads East First Round Series 3-1.

Coach Kidd on Game 3 victory:

We thought we got better tonight. We found ourselves with a `W.

Bayless on Dudley:

I was curious. I just wanted to know, Are you going to look for this?.

Coach Thibodeau on Game 3 loss:

I’m not going to put it on that last play. There were a lot of other plays throughout the course of the game. When you turn the ball over like that you’re not going to have success.

Gasol on Bulls turnovers:

But that definitely didn’t lose us the game. Mistakes will happen – we just made too many of them throughout the game.

Nets 93-81 Hawks Game 3

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The Nets win 93-81. Lopez scores 22 points, 13 rebounds, Young scores 18 points and 11 rebounds and Bogdanovic scores 19 points. Carroll scores 22 points and Millsap scores a double-double (18 points and 17 rebounds). Atlanta leads East First Round Series 2-1.

Coach Budenholzer on Game 3 loss:

I think they’re a confident group, just like we are. It’s the playoffs. I think they’ve played well really for stretches from the beginning and it’s going to be a series.

Horford:

From the beginning of the game, they had more of an edge than we did. This was a big game for them and they came out and handled their business.

Korver on Game 3:

I didn’t get any good looks early and I tried to force a couple late. I need to be better on Monday.

24 Apr, 2015

Spurs 100-73 Clippers Game 3

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The Spurs win 100-73. Leonard scores 32 points, Diaw scores 15 points and Green scores 11 points. Griffin scores a double-double (14 points and ten rebounds) and Jordan scores ten points for the Clippers. San Antonio leads West First Round Series 2-1.

Duncan on Leonard:

He continues to impress me every time he’s out there. He can put on a show like that in a situation like this. It’s not only great for us, but it’s impressive to watch.

Coach Rivers on Game 3 Loss:

We’ve had this happen a couple of times this year, we lose our spirit because we can’t make shots. I thought that’s what happened as the game went on. Every time we missed a shot, we played less and less defense.

Leonard:

I’m just doing whatever it takes to help the team win the game. Tony (Parker) did a good job getting off early and just created opportunities for me knocking down shots and I just got a rhythm.

Coach Popovich on Leonard:

He has really progressed by leaps and bounds on both ends of the floor. He’s turned into a fine offensive player, as well as a defensive player. He’s not a one-trick pony kind of guy. He’s something else.

Wizards 106-99 Raptors Game 3

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The Raptors win 106-99. Gortat scores a double-double (24 points, 13 rebounds), Wall scores a double-double ( 19 points, 15 assists), Pierce scores 18 points and Beal scores 16 points. DeRozan scores 32 points for the Raptors. Washington leads The East First Round series 3-0.

Pierce:

My adrenaline is through the roof right now. … I’m just enjoying the moment. I love playoff basketball. I love everything about it. At this point in my career, I’m savoring these moments, because I don’t know how many more of these moments I’m going to have.

Coach Casey on Pierce:

You’re not playing against chopped liver. Paul Pierce won a championship. He knows how to play.

Coach Wittman on Wizards perfomance:

That’s us. We’re not a two-man team.

Rockets 130-128 Mavericks Game 3

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The Rockets win 130-128. Harden scores 42 points, nine assists, Howard has 26 rebounds, Smith scores 18 points and Brewer scores 15points. Nowitzki scores 34 points for the Mavericks. Houston leads 3-0 West First Round Series.

Harden on Howard:

He was a beast. He was a beast. Go ahead.

Howard:

Tonight wasn’t my night to score. I was OK with that. But the one thing that I can always control is the paint and just try to get every rebound.

Nowitzki:

It was an up-and-down game, shot-making and play-making all over the place. This ranks up there with the toughest playoffs losses I’ve had in my long playoff career.

Coach McHale:

It was a hell of a game if you like offense. If you like defense, maybe not so much.

23 Apr, 2015

Wins Defensive Player of the Year

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Leonard wins the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award. He helped the Spurs finish 3rd in defensive rating, with 99.6 points allowed per 100 possessions. Leonard joins Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only two players to ever win both a Defensive Player of the Year award and a Finals MVP award. Leonard:

It feels great. Growing up as a kid, you’re watching these players and you want to become who they are or get the accolades that they have. It just shows that hard work pays off.

Warriors 123-119 Pelicans Game 3

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The Warriors win 123-119. Curry scores 40 points, Thompson scores 28 points Green scores a double-double (12 points and 17 rebounds). Davis scores a double-double (29 points and 15 rebounds), Evans scores 19 points and Barnes scores 11 points for the Pelicans. Golden State leads West First Round Series 3-0.

Curry on Game 3 performance:

You know how big of a deal it is to come back from a deficit like that in the playoffs on the road, in a game we knew was very important for us to really take control of this series. So I think we should celebrate the accomplishment.

Thompson:

We haven’t been in that position a lot this year, but mental toughness and resilience is probably (among) our best traits. It was an amazing way to finish the game.

Davis on Pelicans loss:

Against a team like this, you can’t relax. “You’ve got to keep being aggressive and we missed shots. … We’ve got to do a better job executing and following our game plan, especially late in the game.

Bulls 113-106 Bucks Game 3

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The Bulls win 113-106. Rose scores 34 points, Butler scores 24 points. Antetokounmpo scores 25 points and Khris Middleton scores 18 points for the Bucks. Chicago leads 3-0 the East First Round Series. Coach Thibodeau on Butler’s performance:

Jimmy set the tone for that.

Butler on Rose:

Playing with Derrick, he makes everything easier for everybody.

Middleton on Bucks loss:

We just got sloppy and stagnant.

Rose:

It’s playoff basketball. I’m still trying to catch a rhythm. Sometimes I get winded. I catch a second wind and I come back good. But I can’t think about that.

Cavaliers 103-95 Celtics Game 3

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The Cavaliers win 103-95. James scores a double-double (31 points and 11 rebounds), Love scores 23 points, Smith scores 15 points. Turner scores 19 points and Bradley scores 18 points for the Celtics. Cleveland leads East First Round series 3-0.

Coach Blatt on Smith’s performance:

He didn’t necessarily have to after scoring 30 points in Game 2. But he wanted to be with his teammate.

James on teammate Smith:

We were together last night watching playoff games. He said he wanted to go early and I said, ‘Let’s go’.

Coach Stevens:

You want to make sure that we play as well as possible for however many games we have left.

NBA visits Cuba

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The NBA holds a four day basketball camp for Cuba’s men and women National basketball team and a youth camp in Havana. the first professional sports team to visit Havana since the declaration of detente of the Cold War enemies. The training camp’s aim is top-level Cuban players as well as children and teenagers. It features Utah Jazz coach Snyder and Orlando Magic coach James Borrego, among others. Cuban Basketball Federation Chairman:

It’s magnificent that the NBA and FIBA are working on training youth and the development of this sport in our country in a way that will benefit the future of this sport at a national and international level

22 Apr, 2015

Spurs 111-107 Clippers Game 2

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The Spurs win 111-107. Duncan scores a double-double (28 points, 11 rebounds) and Leonard scores 23 points. Griffin scores a triple-double(29 points,12 rebounds and 11 assists) and Jordan scores a double-double (20 points and 15 rebounds) for the Clippers. The West First Round Series are tied 1-1. Coach Popovich on Duncan’s performance:

He was spectacular. He continues to amaze me with the things that he is able to do. He knows he had to stay on the court and he figured out a way to do it. He continued to be aggressive, which is pretty amazing.

Duncan:

I was awful. I missed two or three layups, I made two or three defensive mistakes, got out of position and gave up dunks to DeAndre (Jordan).

Ginobili:

Seeing the team play like this today was very important. Hopefully we bring the same sense of urgency, the same fire and juice, for Game 3.

Grizzlies 97-82 TrailBlazers Game 2

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The Grizzlies win 97-82. Conley scores 17 points, Gasol scores 15 points and Randolph gets a double-double (ten points and ten rebounds). Aldridge scores a double-double (24 points and 14 rebounds) and Lillard scores 18 points for the TrailBlazers. Memphis leads West First Round Series 2-0. Lillard on TrailBlazers loss:

We got to try to do something there.

Gasol:

If they are going to keep giving us that, we’re going to keep taking them.

Coach Stotts on Memphis Game 2:

They’re good shooters. They don’t look for them a lot. We can’t leave them open either.

Hawks 96-91 Nets Game 2

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The Hawks win 96-91. Millsap scores 19 points, Horford scores a double-double (14 points, 13 rebounds) and Korver scores 17 points. Jack scores 23 points and Lopez scores 20 points for the Nets. Atlanta leads the East First Round Series 2-0.

Horford:

We’re kind of playing on the edge right now…Once the game started, I was good.

Coach Budenholzer:

We feel fortunate that we made just enough plays, just enough stops.

Jack on Nets loss:

All is not lost. Our confidence is high.

21 Apr, 2015

Wizards 117-106 Raptors

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Wizards win 117-106. Wall scores a double-double (26 points,17 assists), Beal scores 28 points and Gortat scores 16 points. DeRozan scores 20 points and Valanciunas scores a double-double (15 points and ten rebounds) for the Wizards. Washington leads East First Round Series 2-0.

Beal on Raptors:

They think that we’re some punks, they think they can push us around. But we’re not rolling.

On Wizards Game 3:

We’ve got to play like we’re down 0-2. Nothing changes. We can’t stop being aggressive.

Coach Wittman on Raptors leads series:

It’s hard winning four games in a series. And as you continue to move on, the harder it gets. Game 3 on Friday is going to be harder to play in than these first two games. It just gets that way as the series moves on.

DeRozan:

It’s far from over. Our confidence is still high. All we’ve got to do is take it game by game.

Rockets 111-99 Mavericks Game 2

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The Rockets wins 111-99. Howard scores a double-double (28 points and 12 rebounds) and Harden scores 24 points. Ellis scores 24 points for the Mavericks. Houston leads West First Round Series 2-0.

Harden on Smith friendship:

Man, like they were little boys again.

Smith:

We just saw something, a little wrinkle in their defense and we just tried to take advantage of it.

Howard on Game 2 success:

I don’t care about how many points I get, my job is to make sure I dominate the paint.

Coach Carlisle on Dallas loss:

Those are a problem. We’ve going to have to find a way to better combat that.

Cavaliers 99-91 Celtics Game 2

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The Cavaliers win 99-91. James scores 30 points, Irving scores 26 points and Mozgov scores 16 points. Thomas scores 22 points for the Celtics. Cleveland leads the East First Round Series 2-0. James:

I’ve been in this moment before, and a lot of our guys haven’t. I thought it was important for me to put a stamp on this game.

Coach Stevens on Celtics loss:

We made those guys earn everything they got. And that’s a step in the right direction. We were in a three-possession game and we shot 38 percent.

Irving:

It wasn’t perfect, it wasn’t pretty. But we got it done.

19 Apr, 2015

Hawks 99-92 Nets Game 1

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The Hawks win 99-92. Korver scores 21 points, Carroll scores 17 points. Johnson scores 17 points, Lopez scores 17 points for the Nets. Atlanta leads East First Round Series 1-0. Millsap on his teammates:

It’s going to be tough to just blow teams out. It’s the playoffs. You expect them to hang in there and fight hard.

Coach Hollins:

If you don’t believe you can play in this series, you should believe it now.

Johnson on the Nets’ loss:

This is going to be a tough series. This is one game. We’ve got to put it behind us.

On Hawks’ crowd boos:

It didn’t affect me. I pretty much expect it.

Cavaliers 113-100 Celtics

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The Cavaliers win 113-100. Irving scores 30 points, James scores 20 points and Love scores a double-double (19 points and 12 rebounds). Thomas scores 22 points for the Celtics. Cleveland leads East First Round Series 1-0. Irving on James, Love:

We are the Big 3. We have really great players on this team, but we set the tone.

James on teammates:

They were phenomenal. Those two guys, they succeeded for the first time being in the postseason.

Thomas:

We’re still confident. Guys are ready for Game 2, knowing that good or bad you’ve got to have a short memory. There are possibly seven games in this series and it could go either way.

Grizzlies 100-86 TrailBlazers Game 1

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The Grizzlies win 100-86. Udrih scores 20 points, Randolph scores a double-double (16 points and 11 rebounds), Gasol scores 15 points and 11 rebounds and Green scores 16 points. Aldridge scores 32 points, Batum scores 15 points and Lillard scores 14 points for the TrailBlazers. Memphis leads First Round West Series 1-0. Coach Stotts on Udrih’s perfomance:

He did a little bit of everything. Shots like that I’ve got to take. I knocked down and then two more times I came out of the screen and knocked them down again. I was just being aggressive.

Udrih:

I was wide open. Shots like that I’ve got to take. I knocked down and then two more times I came out of the screen and knocked them down again. I was just being aggressive.

Aldrigde on TrailBlazers loss:

I think a good wakeup call for us. But definitely tonight they manhandled us.