ESPN Stephen A Smith If the Clippers steal the 5th seed and push the Lakers down to 6th forcing them to face Denver in Round 1 the Lakers would get destroyed He suggests they should tank games to avoid the Nuggets Theyre going home Theyre not beating Denver I can assure you of that

Charles Barkley Now do I think my Suns can win this series Hell no

Nikola Jokic on the Nuggets having rest going into the playoffs To be honest I don't like it I just want to play

Bill Simmons questions whether Giannis is still a top 5 player and doesnt think teams should trade all their assets for him He doesnt play Hes closer to Embiid than Jokic He doesn't play He gets hurt all the time He's hurt all the time I would be really scared about this

The Suns fail to score Jerami Grant with the dagger dunk and the Blazers secure the 7th seed and will meet the Spurs in the playoffs with a replay

Aaron Gordon's thoughts on Jaden Mcdaniels' comments about the Nuggets being bad defenders Brother I don't care

Shaq on the Lakers needing to intentionally miss FTs to force the game into overtime If you have to rely on that you're not going to win and not being a contender I'm used to playing for coaches who wouldn't be happy with that game