The first round of the NBA/NHL playoffs is really giving the NCAA tournament a run for the multiview crown this year.

VJ Edgecombe is the first sixers rookie with a 30-pt playoff game since the Boston Strangler, Andrew Toney, in the 1981 Conference Finals against…the Celtics

Hope Wemby is OK. That was a nasty fall.

Good for Billy D.

HALF COURT BLUE ARROW

The vibe of the Sidetalk episode outside of MSG after this pants shitting just changed dramatically

This Knicks implosion is giving this entire arena Haliburton flashbacks.

This Sixers team might be the first to do a 1-2-3-Cancun before Game 2.

Never been happier to be wrong about a player at the next level. Luka Garza getting real rotation minutes in a playoff game with a contender. I will always have a soft spot for Joe Mazzulla knowing how to use him.

Kind of a dead heat between the Rockets and the Magic for which team needs a mercy rule on their season.

Still think Denver will need to win one in Minnesota to win this series but a Game 1 win is a great start.

Incredibly consequential two possessions on that rim graze to reset the shot clock and then to have Gobert’s putback overturned.

Ant Edwards looks healthy to me.

The best thing about Dončić and Cunningham being awards eligible is that we don’t have to pretend that Scottie Barnes is an All-NBA player.

Just in from the NBA and NBPA:

Cade Cunningham and Luka Doncic have been ruled ELIGIBLE for all awards, despite missing the 65-game cutoff. Both were granted exceptions under the "extraordinary circumstances" clause.

The Celtics *will* mercy kill the Sixers season in four or five games.

The Hornets need to mercy kill the Magic’s season on Friday.

You’d be hard pressed to make an argument that the game in Charlotte last night featured more talent than the one in Philly tonight. But through nearly a half it sure doesn’t look like the Magic and Sixers are more talented than the Hornets and Heat.

Kinda hope the Heat trade for Ja Morant this summer because he might finally be the thing that breaks them.

LAMELO OH NO

You know what never had technical difficulties?

TNT

Did somebody unplug Amazon????

I don't think you can defend that any better, and SVG said it on the broadcast, shot it right on the catch. What an amazing shot from White.

PLAYOFF BASKETBALL WE HAVE MISSED YOU SO

ALEC. JACOBY. WHITE.

Miami probably fouling up three here. Which is the type of thing that would move me to legislate that out of the game.

“It’s Grant Williams Time.” - Grant Williams

Sure, OK, we can all respect the Heat and their try hard crap in the regular season while acknowledging Spoelstra is the best coach in the league. But come playoff time nobody wants to watch a team with these aesthetics. Everybody tries hard in the playoffs.

That is one of the weakest playoff foul calls in years. I thought the physicality was supposed to be up a notch this time of year?

coby white watching coby white