Rest in peace to Jason Collins, an unthinkably brave person and incredible leader for the LGBT community. Over a decade later and his coming out column is still an astonishing piece of writing. Wish the sport had caught up more and that he could have lived to see it.

Karl Anthony Towns ranks in the 2026 playoffs: 1st in PER (30.5) 1st in Win Shares (2.3) 1st in WS/48 (.394) 1st in Offensive WS (1.6) 1st in VORP (1.2) 1st in Box Plus/Minus (14.4) 1st in Defensive BPM (7.4) 1st in Offensive BPM (7.0) seems pretty good?

It’s very easy to avoid this conclusion. In fact, I avoid it all the time.

Well, this is awful. Ugh. RIP

Give me a game seven.

The Cavs are such an unserious team, lol

Cavs had a chance to pull away and didn't.

Cavs!

The Supreme Court is insulting you, personally. In *February* of 2022, SCOTUS ruled that Alabama HAD TO continue using an illegal racist election map because it was too close to the 2022 midterms to make a change. Now, in *May* 2026, SCOTUS is letting THE SAME STATE - ALABAMA - change their maps.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

I actually don’t want Daryl Morey to be fired. I think he should have to live in the cage of bad contracts and inflexibility he created for himself.

A tale of how moderation works around here, in two parts

Not for everyone. 😏

Is the scenario for the ECF to start on the 19th rather than the 17th: Pistons/Cavs go 7 Or Pistons/Cavs go 6 and Spurs/Wolves go 7?

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Maxey on the Knicks fan invasion of their arena: "It just sucks, if I'm being absolutely honest...only one way to put a stop to it, and it's to go out there and win these games"

THE KNICKS ARE HEADED BACK TO THE EAST FINALS 😤 7 straight postseason wins... the longest playoff win streak in franchise history! NBA Playoffs presented by Google

I will say again: I have never seen a Knicks team play this well, and I am unsure what to do with the information that it is possible

oh no

How long does the Cavs/Pistons series have to go for the ECF to start on the 19th?

Rooting heavily for the 19th for a number of reasons.

Believe the Knicks now have a minimum of a week off.

The roll continues.

Go Cavs!

Not sure there's a team I would have enjoyed doing that to more.

Knicks fans were doing this to embiid at the line ON THE ROAD

this is the exact free throw Patrick Ewing takes in Space Jam after the Monstars take his talent

Each Knick player is getting a curtain call on the road. This is incredible

Hey, Libs win too!

after two rounds of playoff basketball, three of the knicks' starters will be averaging *fewer* minutes than they did during the regular season: jalen brunson: 35.0 ➡️ 34.7 karl-anthony towns: 31.0 ➡️ 28.5 mikal bridges: 32.8 ➡️ 29.2 og anunoby: 33.2 ➡️ 35.7 josh hart: 30.2 ➡️ 34.0

well alright Jalen Brunson

But imagine how sick that move would've been if Jalen Brunson were a 1A.

Well, that Brunson sequence will be on highlight reels until the end of time.

I'm having fun.

lol. lmao even.

There have been a couple of times today where I've gone "huh the Sixers are starting to play better they must be cutting into the lead" but nope because they're getting slaughtered by math.

HART SINKS NEW YORK'S 18TH THREE OF THE FIRST HALF 🤯 18 3PM by the Knicks ties the most in any postseason half in the play-by-play era! New York leads by 24 at the break in Game 4 🍿

Mikal Bridges and Tyrese Maxey have scored the same number of points in this series. I'd really enjoy seeing Mikal end up with more.

Embiid pushes Mitch down and falls on top of him and Mitch gets called for the foul. Give me a break.

They're doing hack a Mitch down 22? These losers.

Didn't like that offensive foul call.

Hahahahahahahaha

KAT is having so much fun playing this way.

knicks are scoring 204.8 points per 100 possessions with an EFG% of 97.6%

This is incredible.

Please just don't get hurt, guys

Well, this is certainly fun.