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Slamming the door shut: 19 winner-take-all NBA playoff game blowouts
As the old adage goes, anything can happen in a winner-take-all playoff game, and what transpired in these 19 examples were absolute decimations, leaving the losing team not just eliminated but usually questioning themselves heading into the offseason.
Instant classics: 75 greatest games in NBA history
All the ultimate barn burners, buzzer beaters, back-and-forth battles, incredible moments, and individual dominance are present in this list of the 75 greatest games in NBA history.
Garden party: 22 most memorable Big East Tournament games
It’s the 40th anniversary of the Big East being inaugurated and as the long venerated conference has entered a new era, we count down the 22 most thrilling, impactful, or just notable games of its yearly postseason tournament.
The shoulders of giants: Nine legendary barnstorming basketball teams
Coined in the late 1800s to describe baseball teams touring the country, stopping mainly in small towns populated heavily with farms, barnstorming became a basketball tradition almost immediately after the sport’s invention. Below are nine notable examples of barnstorming teams that had a profound impact on the game of basketball, either in their novelty, their influence, or simply their greatness.