Jordan Schultz

The Oklahoma City Thunder has punished opponents all season with fast-paced scoring and athleticism.

The San Antonio Spurs has punished opponents all season with half-court execution and a bench that goes 10-deep.

A young and still rather inexperienced team, the Thunder hasn't faced a significant challenge in...

LeBron James is going to get his. And if Game 1 against Boston in the Eastern Conference Finals was any indication, he'll have an easy time of it. James scored 32 points on just 22 shots; he drove the lane with power and ease and created offense for his teammates...

In a new segment with Noah Coslov of CineSport, I break down why LeBron, Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat remain vulnerable against Indiana in Game 6. Essentially, it comes down to this: Without Chris Bosh and the suspended Udonis Haslem, Miami does not have any big man (sorry, Juwan...

The San Antonio Spurs are owners of the NBA's best record. They have not lost since April 12 and have won 18 consecutive games. They have the league's most no-nonsense superstar in Tim Duncan, a healthy Manu Ginobili, a legitimate 10-deep bench -- and of course, Tony Parker....

In a new segment with Noah Coslov of CineSport, I break down why two-time NBA MVP Tim Duncan is the greatest power forward of all time.

We also discussed the fate of the Miami Heat without Chris Bosh and why LeBron's Houdini act in Game 2 is worrisome moving forward....

If the NBA Playoffs teach us one thing, it is that you cannot hide any longer.

Late in the fourth quarter of Miami's 78-75 Game 2 loss against Indiana Tuesday night, LeBron James pulled off yet another miraclous Houdini-style disappearing act. It wasn't just the two missed...

The prevailing theory that an NBA Playoff series doesn't officially start until the home team loses a game may still hold true under most circumstances, but in the case of Oklahoma City and the Los Angeles Lakers, Game 1 Monday night showed us that sometimes it is just that --...

Nineteen-year-old phenom boxer Jose Ramirez is officially heading to the London Olympics to represent the United States in the 132-pound class. For Ramirez, who has a decorated amateur career of 143 wins, 11 national titles and six consecutive USA Golds, it has been a wild -- and highly unstable --...

With the London 2012 Summer Olympics drawing close, The Huffington Post caught up with swimmer Michael Phelps, who with 16 medals, is now just three Olympic medals away from breaking the all-time record of former Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina. Phelps, 26, recently announced his upcoming retirement and that 2012 will...

The original plan was merely to help his eighth-grade daughter with her flat basketball shot, but somehow Dwyane Wade, Jeremy Lin and the entire Gonzaga University men's basketball team ended up benefiting from Alan Marty's high-tech basketball contraption.

Formerly a guard at North Central College in Illinois, Marty is...

At one point or another, it was only logical to assume Andrew Bynum would figure out that he is a professional basketball player. Bynum is 24 years old now, which is still very young; but seven years into his NBA career, he is considered a veteran. Yet, just as he...

Carmelo Anthony was brilliant.

For one game of one first-round series, the dim lights of Madison Square Garden flickered a little brighter and the infamous Garden organ and fans' incessant chants of "Defense" prevailed. Anthony's herculean 41-point performance put an end to the longest playoff losing streak in...

When Dallas took the court Thursday night at home, down 0-2 to Oklahoma City, the defending champs were fully aware what the consequences of their performance represented. "Game 3 is Game 7," Mavericks guard Jason Terry said on Wednesday.

The truncated 66-game regular season hasn't been friendly to the...

When news broke that New York Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire had punched a fire extinguisher and caused lacerations to his right hand after the Knicks' Game 2 loss to Miami, it very well may have seemed the team's fate this season was sealed. After all, lead guard and...

If the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs entered the playoffs as the prohibitive favorites in the Western Conference, then perhaps no team was a trendier pick than Memphis. The Grizzlies had won six straight entering the postseason, had finished April 13-3 and, with a healthy Zach...

Derrick Rose's season-ending torn ACL is in many ways representative of Chicago's year on the whole. The Bulls -- owners of the NBA's best regular-season record, along with San Antonio -- have dealt with injuries to Luol Deng, Carlos Boozer, Richard Hamilton, Joakim Noah and Rose's groin over this truncated...

Much like the NCAA Tournament, the NBA Playoffs often comes down to X-factors. Which team has that one guy either off the bench or in the starting lineup that can change the pace of a game? Last season, reserve guard J.J. Barea single-handedly changed the tenor of the Finals against...

The NBA Playoffs are the biggest stage where basketball's best players shine their brightest. Clutch shots and game-winners are immortalized as great players either elevate themselves to legendary status or plummet and become goats. Of course Kobe and Carmelo make our list, but here are the other 14 players in...

Before Robert Griffin III officially becomes the second overall pick of the Washington Redskins in the NFL draft, Baylor’s Heisman Trophy winner chatted with The Huffington Post in New York City. He shared what it was like cutting down the nets when the Baylor women’s basketball team won the...

The list continues to expand as Albert Pujols' name remains absent: Peter Bourjos and Kendrys Morales each have a home run for the Angels, and Chris Iannetta, Mark Trumbo and Howie Kendrick all have two. Vernon Wells leads the roster with three. Albert Pujols, though, with a team high of...