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Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has squad goals. Khris Middleton’s return midway through the first quarter that night brought hope to a season marred by the do-everything wing’s freak torn hamstring in the offseason. Two quarters later, that hope was lost when Jabari Parker’s breakout season ended in another ACL tear, ensuring the Bucks would be without at least one of their three best players for all but six minutes in 2016-17. Continue to Article

April 02, 2017 8:31:am EST

The Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets, both facing difficult battles to qualify for the playoffs, meet on Sunday night in Miami in a game with a lot on the line. The Heat are one of three teams in the Eastern Conference with identical 37-39 records, and only two of them -- the way it looks now -- can make the postseason. Due to tiebreakers, the Chicago Bulls are in seventh place, the Heat are eighth and the slumping Indiana Pacers are ninth. Continue to Article

April 02, 2017 1:26:am EST

The Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets, both facing difficult battles to qualify for the playoffs, meet on Sunday night in Miami in a game with a lot on the line. The Heat are one of three teams in the Eastern Conference with identical 37-39 records, and only two of them -- the way it looks now -- can make the postseason. Due to tiebreakers, the Chicago Bulls are in seventh place, the Heat are eighth and the slumping Indiana Pacers are ninth. Continue to Article

April 02, 2017 1:26:am EST

The level of emotion is not exactly the same as DeMarcus Cousins experienced in playing his first game against the franchise that traded him away, but for New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis, Sunday's game against the Chicago Bulls in the Smoothie King Center hits close to home. Davis, a native of Chicago, is riding high, and so are the Pelicans. In routing the Sacramento Kings 117-89 on Friday night behind Cousins' game-high 37 points, Davis chipped in with 19 points and 12 rebounds as the Pelicans (33-43) won for the eighth time in their last 11 games. Continue to Article

April 02, 2017 1:23:am EST

The level of emotion is not exactly the same as DeMarcus Cousins experienced in playing his first game against the franchise that traded him away, but for New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis, Sunday's game against the Chicago Bulls in the Smoothie King Center hits close to home. Davis, a native of Chicago, is riding high, and so are the Pelicans. In routing the Sacramento Kings 117-89 on Friday night behind Cousins' game-high 37 points, Davis chipped in with 19 points and 12 rebounds as the Pelicans (33-43) won for the eighth time in their last 11 games. Continue to Article

April 02, 2017 1:23:am EST