Yao called off his 2008-09 season when he was injured in the playoff game against the Los Angeles Lakers on May 10.
Thinks that without Yao, it's hard to win 15 playoff games without their best player.
Popular theory in the NBA says defense wins playoff games and rebounding wins championships, and the Los Angeles Lakers' title in 2010 serves as proof for that theory.
But it was a playoff game against the Lakers.
But it was a playoff game against the Lakers. The first home game. I twisted it again in the third quarter. Then again in the fourth.
In all, Wade had lost 11 straight regular-season and playoff games in Boston. James had lost 13 of 15, including the one that ended his Cleveland career.
And while Cassell has 103 playoff games under his belt and two championship rings to boot, the spotlight will be on Brand, as he graces the postseason stage for the first time.
Similar procedures were to be in place for an N.B.A. playoff game in Oklahoma City on Tuesday night and for all remaining basketball playoff games, officials said.
You get to playing a lot of playoff games back to back, we're every other day in this situation. Kind of crept up on them, perhaps.
You invite your friends over to watch an NBA basketball playoff game on TV.
As the Lakers wrapped up their final practice before Sunday's first-round playoff game against the Denver Nuggets, Andrew Bynum and Trevor Ariza sat together on a large medicine ball.
That's 195 million more than watch an NBA playoff game, on average.
The Jazz's road struggles this season were well documented, but Utah is 28-81 away from home in franchise playoff games.
Veteran guard Derek Fisher, who won three championships (2000-02) with the Lakers, has played in 148 playoff games during his career.
Mutombo left Tuesday's Rockets-Blazers playoff game on a stretcher.
It was the end of his senior football season, and as he trotted onto the practice field shortly before the big playoff game, the coach met him with a telegram.
The coach pretended not to hear him. There was no way he wanted is worst player in this close playoff game.
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