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Scores:
Through five second-round games, Milwaukee lost itself in a haze of misdirected isolations, awful pull-up jumpers, and profitable mismatches ignored. They recovered to squeak by a Nets team without Kyrie Irving, and with a hobbled James Harden.
Milwaukee’s half-court offense picked up against the Atlanta Hawks and Phoenix Suns, but only toward league-average production, per Cleaning The Glass. The Hawks arrived ahead of schedule.
Standings:
Los Angeles Lakers
Phoenix Suns
Utah Jazz
I almost slotted the Lakers in their own tier or with the Bucks. Look past the roster churn and the Lakers have been consistently great with both LeBron James and Anthony Davis playing — and even more potent when Davis slides to center alongside LeBron, which Davis did for only 173 possessions last season (per Cleaning The Glass) and figures to do much more.
Schedule:
2021-22 NBA Schedule Release Info
Date: Friday, Aug. 20
Time: 3 p.m. ET
Watch: TBD
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The 82-Game Season Is Back
2021:
The 2021–22 NBA season will be the 75th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The NBA returned to a full 82-game regular season in its normal mid-October to mid-April schedule for the first time since the 2018–19 NBA season, as the previous two seasons have been abbreviated in some form due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The regular season will begin on October 19, 2021. The 2022 NBA All-Star Game will be played at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on February 20, 2022.
Today:
LeBron James checked in at No. 2 on the USA TODAY panel ranking of the 75 greatest players in NBA history. The top spot belonged to Michael Jordan.
The full rankings, released this week, caught the eye of someone over at Fox Sports 1. “Undisputed” with Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe dedicated a full 11-minute segment to the list.
Lineup:
| POS | Starter |
|---|---|
| PG | Trae Young |
| SG | Bogdan Bogdanovic |
| SF | Kevin Huerter |
| PF | John Collins |
| C | Clint Capela |
For some squads, the starting five will look remarkably similar to the one that ended the 2020-21 campaign. Others project to have up to 60 percent of their starters turned over, leading to a major adjustment period in the early going.
Starters who were new offseason acquisitions will be italicized, and players who are expected to miss the beginning of the season because of injury (Kawhi Leonard, Klay Thompson, Jamal Murray, etc.) will not appear in their teams starting fives.
