"We're not going to get the No. 1 overall seed".
Let's go back to 1961-62, when Wilt Chamberlain - averaging 50.4 points and 25.7 rebounds - played 48.5 minutes per contest.
"It was special", Paul said, wearing Gucci fur-lined slippers after the game.
Throughout the season series, Rudy Gobert averaged 13.8 points per game, making 69 percent of his shots, 11.8 rebounds, and 1.5 blocks.
Heading into Saturday's playoff opener, the Clippers are healthy, with the exception of backup guard Austin Rivers, who missed the final six games with a strained left hamstring. "We're no longer playing teams, we're playing ourselves", Rivers said. It just proves the type of player I am and that I have been and how hard I have had to work to get to those type of milestones.
Utah is mainly powered by its defense and that won't change in the first round.
FILE - In this November 2, 2016, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin, left, talks with guard Chris Paul during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, in Los Angeles. For Game 82, the Clippers had their starting group on the floor with five minutes to go, for whatever reason. The Clippers have their own All-Star in the frontcourt, of course: Griffin. He set the mark in each of the past two seasons. The difference this year is the addition of a 3-point shot. If they lose, they could possibly have to start a rebuild this summer. Now he might help keep the Heat out of the playoffs.
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He added: "We have a lot of lovely things to fight for and to qualify for the Champions League will be a huge success". However, Pochettino was unfazed by his comments, explaining: "I didn't hear him say that but I can understand".
In an age of small ball and centers who shoots 3-pointers, there is something magical about watching two burly 7-footers square off in the playoffs.
Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert was forced to leave Saturday's playoff game against the Los Angeles Clippers with a sprained left knee, the team announced. Gobert, a favorite to win the Defensive Player of the Year Award, has been a sensation in Utah.
Game 2 will be Tuesday night in L.A.at 8:30 p.m., while the series shifts to Salt Lake City for Games 3 and 4, Friday, April 21 and Sunday, April 23. Jordan might be just as imposing at the rim. Every game is very meaningful.
Shooting Numbers: Although the Kings only scored 95 points for the game, their shooting numbers as a collective whole were solid for the game. Another issue that can't be ignored with Jordan: The continued liability he presents at the free-throw line.
Coach Doc Rivers bristles at others focus on past failures. But the Golden State Warriors had just finished one of the most dominant regular seasons in National Basketball Association history, the culmination of a years-long process that Myers ushered in by replacing Mark Jackson with Steve Kerr the previous summer.
This season's presumptive favorites for Executive of the Year, Myers and Daryl Morey of the Houston Rockets, are being considered following offseason overhauls that ultimately propelled their teams to the top of the league. Through that, the Jazz pieced together a 51-win season and are back in the playoffs for the first time since 2012. Flash forward five years and the team has turned everything around under head coach Quin Snyder.
"It's nice to finish the season strong, but all of it us to build habits for the playoffs", Paul said.
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