Ja Morant overcame a sprained right ankle to score 22 points and add nine assists and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Dallas Mavericks 120-106 on Friday night to advance to the NBA playoffs.

It was the year of the long winning streak in the NBA. There were five instances of teams winning 11 or more games in a row — ...

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