Good morning. Let’s basketball.
Good morning. Let’s put Clippers-Rockets out of its misery.
That and more in Sunday’s NBA newsletter.
ONE MORE DAY: There's one game left in the second round of the NBA playoffs: the finale of Rockets vs. Clippers in Houston (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC). The loser goes home knowing they blew it at one point or another this series; the winner gets to visit Golden State starting Tuesday. So basically, everyone loses.
Here’s the preview from SB Nation’s Rocket site The Dream Shake. And from the L.A. point of view, the Clips Nation preview.
THAT DUDE BETTER BE COOL: So in the locker room after Game 6 Iman Shumpert was talking (joking?) with teammates about being from Chicago and getting his family to rough up Nikola Mirotic, who clotheslined him randomly in the game. A local reporter printed the overheard comments. So Shump announced on Twitter his displeasure with the reporter. Lots of fun covering the NBA as a beat writer, apparently ...
RECURRING PROBLEM: Memphis still has trouble shooting. It’s an ongoing thing.
SPEAKING OF MEMPHIS ... Marc Gasol has lots of options in free agency. Will any prove more desirable than the Grizzlies?
BRAND NEW DAY: Of all the teams looking ahead to the draft lottery, perhaps no one has more to lose than the Lakers.
BEST OF THE PLAYOFFS? Sam Amick with a piece that shows how ridiculous Stephen Curry and Blake Griffin have both been in the playoffs.
THE CONTEXT OF KERR: Really interesting story on Kerr’s father, who was a Middle East scholar gunned down by terrorists in 1984, when the coach was 18. Kerr credits his father and his extraordinary childhood with much of his success in basketball, even though the elder Kerr didn’t really play much.
Happy Sunday. Enjoy Game 7. See you next time.
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