The Thunder will be an outlier one way or another in these NBA playoffs. Teams as young and inexperienced as OKC don’t win.

The NBA Play-In Tournament starts Tuesday. Golden State and Memphis renew a recent playoff battle in the marquee game.

Los Angeles shouldn't hit the red panic button after dropping Game 1, but their hearts should be speeding up a bit. Minnesota ...

Of those 27, 17 (63%) reached the conference finals and only two (2006-07 Mavericks, 2011-12 Bulls) lost in the first round .

GO FURTHER Wednesday’s NBA Play-In Tournament takeaways: Mavs down Kings, Herro-led Heat dominate Bulls ... in the playoffs, with Chicago holding a narrow 4-3 advantage. Miami won in 2011 ...

One of those NBA truisms will be debunked ... They won the title in their third trip to the playoffs. Again, this would be the Thunder’s second. Even the 2011-12 Thunder, with a core younger ...

These stand out because they are moments when the game’s best players prove something by tapping into the highest level of what makes them great.