As usual, favored Raptors start playoffs with a loss

ATLANTA — Celtics shooting guard Avery Bradley suffered a strained right hamstring in the fourth quarter of his team's 102-101 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference first-round series. Although he expressed

Who will advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs? We polled the ESPN Forecast panel of experts and a panel of fans. Here are the results, along with predictions from ESPN's Basketball Power Index (BPI), FiveThirtyEight and PredictWise.

The Miami Heat, in the final playoff run of the "Big Three" era, bested the then-Bobcats in four games two seasons ago en route to a fourth straight NBA Finals. Charlotte, the NBA's 24th-ranked offense at the time, averaged just 92 points a game in the

OAKLAND, Calif. — The absolute peak of absurdity for the luckiest correspondent in professional sports had to be last week, when I found myself locked in a televised conversation with one of my boyhood heroes, co-narrating Steph Curry's pregame

OAKLAND, Calif. — The absolute peak of absurdity for the luckiest correspondent in professional sports had to be last week, when I found myself locked in a televised conversation with one of my boyhood heroes, co-narrating Steph Curry's pregame