The No. 1 seed Cleveland Cavaliers swept the No. 8 seed Miami Heat on Monday, becoming the first team in the Eastern Conference to advance to the second round. The Detroit Pistons ' comeback to even their first-round series fell short Sunday, as the New York Knicks head back to Madison Square Garden with a chance to close it out Tuesday.

Stephen Curry is embracing the physical style of these NBA playoffs, as long and both sides are called evenly SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry is all for physical playoff basketball and having to earn every shot,

The Thunder are the first of eight teams to advance to the NBA playoffs' second round. In a Round 1 series that got competitively closer with each game, they did just enough to su

As has seemingly become customary for this Thunder squad, it’ll have an abnormal amount of time to burn off the chocolate chips and snickerdoodles. The conference semifinals have long been slated to begin May 5-6,

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