Month: August 2020

3:28 AM ET Vancouver Canucks agitator Antoine Roussel tried to get under the Vegas Golden Knights‘ skin in Game 1 of their series. Instead, the Knights said Roussel helped fuel their 5-0 blowout win on Sunday in Edmonton, Alberta. “He’s running around out there. I don’t think he’s distracting anyone but himself,” forward Reilly Smith
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2:05 AM ET ESPN News Services EDMONTON, Alberta — Robin Lehner recorded his first career playoff shutout, and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-0 on Sunday in the first game of their second-round playoff series. Lehner turned aside 26 shots. Reilly Smith, Jonathan Marchessault, Alex Tuch, Mark Stone and Max Pacioretty scored
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9:24 PM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Los Angeles Lakers spent time on Sunday, Kobe Bryant’s birthday, doing something the franchise’s late star surely would have approved of: getting in extra work on the practice floor. After shooting just 28-for-43 (65.1%) from the foul line on Saturday in their Game 3 win over
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9:01 PM ET Doc Rivers said the LA Clippers are “very emotionally weak” and are not the elite defensive team they are supposed to be right now. Rivers was upset with his team’s mental toughness and execution after Luka Doncic capped an incredible Game 4 performance with a 27-foot step-back 3-pointer at the buzzer in
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11:24 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN For the first time in franchise history, the Toronto Raptors swept a playoff series. Now, also for the first time in franchise history, the Raptors are gearing up for a series against the Boston Celtics. Both teams finished off sweeps on Sunday, with Boston defeating Philadelphia and the Raptors taking
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9:20 PM ET When Luka Doncic first stepped foot on the AdventHealth Arena court Sunday afternoon, he hoped to prove to himself and the Dallas Mavericks’ medical staff that he could play in Game 4, about 40 hours after spraining his left ankle. Doncic received clearance to play and then proceeded to deliver a historic
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8:55 PM ET The Brooklyn Nets‘ season ended unceremoniously Sunday night in a first-round sweep at the hands of the NBA defending champion Toronto Raptors. In other circumstances, this could be construed as a disappointment. Instead, Brooklyn’s demise was met with a collective shrug, because the team was horribly short-handed. And it was always about
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