Kevin Durant scored 19 of his 43 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Thunder over the Lakers on Thursday night in Los Angeles. In the earlier game, the Bulls beat the Nets on Thursday night in Chicago in a battle of Eastern Conference playoff seeding.
Scores: Durant goes for 43 in win over Lakers

Kelvin Kuo-USA TODAY SportsThe teams battled back-and-forth in the waning moments of the final quarter. Los Angeles tried but couldn’t find the gas in the last 90 second to get over the edge as Durant added to his MVP-worthy resume by finishing the game with eye-popping 19-point fourth quarter to seal the 107-103 victory for Oklahoma City.
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Read Article >Chris Kaman crashes trying to dunk on Ibaka

David Richard-USA TODAY SportsPlus, Chris Kaman trying to dunk is always an entertaining adventure. I hope someone someday makes a YouTube mix of all of Kaman’s dunk attempts. I’m willing to bet most of them end with him falling down.
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Read Article >LeBron James sinks the Warriors


King James is still the king.
Oh and then LeBron James celebrated like a boss. Note how he puts his mouthpiece back in to celebrate, that’s a classic boss celebration move.
Read Article >It’s raining disco ball pieces at the Oracle


The Warriors play with a disco ball hanging overhead, apparently. It’s like the Sword of Damocles, but way sparklier. Well, the sword finally fell Wednesday night, as a pretty large panel of the ball dropped and shattered on the court, not far from where players were standing.
Harrison Barnes is lucky he helped way too far off the perimeter, because he could have gotten brained there otherwise. Kinda scary.
Read Article >LeBron James isn’t fair

Cary Edmondson-USA TODAY SportsIf I could do this, I would do it all the time. You would never be able to have a conversation with me because I’d be throwing down super nasty dunks constantly. It’d be really annoying for my friends and stuff, but it’d be really awesome for me.
Read Article >CP3 to Blake Griffin alley-oop...again

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY SporRaymond Felton is bored, you guys


Grizzlies’ Gasol leaves game after banging knee

Kim Klement-USA TODAY SportsLeBron does a windmill dunk
This is as close as you’ll ever come to seeing LeBron in the dunk contest, America. Soak it in.
Read Article >Birdman gets up, throws down a missed shot