Vivek Jacob

NBA Contenders for 2024-25 season: Who can dethrone Celtics?

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NBA 2024-25 Season Preview: Burning question for each team in the East

As the 2024-25 NBA season approaches, Vivek Jacob offers up one burning question for each Eastern Conference team.

Wimbledon Takeaways: Alcaraz delivers, Krejcikova endears

Free agency winners and losers: Thunder's time is now, Clippers fading

The NBA’s first week of free agency hasn’t played out in its traditional, roller-coaster manner, so what? As teams watch their pockets ever more closely due to the potential impact of becoming a second apron team, it’s certainly made for fewer transactions but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been enough to chew on.

NBA Finals Preview: Mavericks well equipped to seize the moment

As we’ve already seen over the course of this post-season, when you have Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving, anything is possible. How the Mavericks' 2024 story ends is up in the air, but there’s no sense in doubting Dallas now.

Nadal's French Open legacy: Even when it was obvious, he couldn't be ruled out

NBA West Finals Preview: Timberwolves-Mavericks an unexpected but thrilling matchup

Minnesota and Dallas will be champing at the bit for a place in the NBA Finals in a highly anticipated battle in the Western Conference Finals.

NBA Playoffs Preview: SGA vs. Doncic a matchup worth watching in Thunder, Mavs series

There’s no need to bury the lede here: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander versus Luka Doncic is an individual matchup that should dominate basketball headlines for years to come and Round 2 with big stakes couldn’t have come fast enough.

NBA Playoffs Preview: Defending champion Nuggets ready for surging Timberwolves

NBA Western Conference playoffs burning questions: Can Thunder make a run?

The eight West teams will be telling themselves this is their year, but the way these teams have lined up, there’s weaknesses that could be exposed early that prove a fatal blow down the line.