Game Thread G72: Kings (31-40) vs Jazz (51-20) @9pm

The Nets Have Solved Basketball, For Now

Brooklyn has found a new way to solve basketball's fundamental problem -- not by coming up with an inventive new strategy, but by reducing the game to its bare essentials.

The Playoffs Have Entered A Disorienting Space

by Colin McGowan

For the first time in a long while, the title race is wide open, without even familiar laundry to look for.

The Sixers, The Hawks, And The Stuff Of A Potential Classic

by John Wilmes

In Game 1, we saw both the extreme benefits of Philadelphia's strategy of kaiju-like paint monster trio of Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons, and Tobias Harris, and the ways in which Trae Young can solve its long-limbed riddles.

The Trial Of Ben Simmons

by John Wilmes

Ben Simmons might have to barrel to the basket more regularly; what the highlight-seeking, unwashed masses want from him, in this case, might overlap perfectly with what his team needs to win.

Game Thread G72: Kings (31-40) vs Jazz (51-20) @9pm