the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat, it was the shortest offseason ever. For the eight teams that haven’t played since March, the break between seasons was longer than ever.
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NBA’s 2020-21 schedule will feature a play-in tournament and stretch into July
The shortened 72-game season will tip off Dec. 22, with training camps opening Dec. 1 and preseason games running Dec. 11 to Dec. 19.
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The wait is over: Delayed NBA draft finally comes Wednesday
The NBA draft finally arrives Wednesday
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Maine-born Duncan Robinson has gone from skinny D-III player to starter in the NBA Finals
The gangly kid that was born in York wasn’t highly recruited and used a postgraduate year at another boarding school just to get an NCAA Division III offer. All that seems like a lifetime ago for Miami Heat starter.
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Celtics head into offseason focused on future, not ending
Jayson Tatum has emerged as a bona fide star, Jaylen Brown showed he can be a consistent presence in the lineup and Kemba Walker helped the Boston Celtics put the failed Kyrie Irving experiment behind them.
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Heat have Celtics on the brink of elimination
Miami is one win from the NBA Finals, leading Boston 3-1 in this East title series, with Game 5 — the possible clincher — Friday night at Walt Disney World.
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Jae Crowder, Kelly Olynyk see parallels between Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, Celtics’ Brad Stevens
Miami’s Crowder and Olynyk are in the East finals for the second time. The first was in 2017 when they played for Boston under coach Brad Stevens. Both see the similarities between Stevens and Heat coach Erik Spoelstra.
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Celtics and Heat both see ways the can improve in Game 2
On the first off day of this season’s Eastern Conference finals, it might have been difficult to tell which team was holding the 1-0 lead in the series.
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Celtics’ Kemba Walker, Heat’s Jimmy Butler waited years to reach East finals
Kemba Walker and Jimmy Butler entered the NBA on the same night, and both went to new homes in the summer of 2019, looking for something better. They got it, and now are in the Eastern Conference finals for the first time.
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Tone of Raptors-Celtics matchup changes amid social unrest
Boston and Toronto players were already discussing boycotting Game 1 of their second-round NBA playoff series before three NBA playoff games were called off as players protest racial injustice.