Cade Cunningham, Dyson Daniels and Ivica Zubac earn Most Improved Player finalist honors

NBA Communications:

Cade Cunningham of @DetroitPistons

Dyson Daniels of @ATLHawks

Ivica Zubac of @LAClippers
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Asked Ivica Zubac about bear wrestling (basically) with Nikola Jokic
Zu doesn’t have a problem with it lol –

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Brunson doesn’t look great out there. If that’s how this is going to go you have to think about this series differently.
Pistons are good enough to pull it off (and this is with Cade playing below his standard). –

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Cade taken out because it’s a massive difference whether he gets his 4th foul with 25 or 23 minutes left in the game. Schroder gets back to back turnovers. –

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Harden finally found the pass off that look this quarter. Great finish by Zubac instead of the pass he made earlier. –

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Basketball special teams: Nikola Jokic spikes two free throws.
Zubac goal-tended, Clippers re-take the lead pending official review –

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Christian Braun airballs what would have been the game-tying 3 to end 3rd quarter
Clippers lead 75-72. A defensive struggle, which is a credit to how Denver has performed thus far.
Ivica Zubac: 17 points, 8/13 FGs, 12 rebounds
FG%: LAC 47.7, DEN 43.1 –

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Game kinda going as expected in that Jokic is the best player on the floor but Harden, Kawhi and Zubac are lapping every other Nugget. –

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Zubac is dominating –

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Larry Nance, Jr., on how happy he was for Dyson Daniels:
“Certain guys have been presented with opportunities, and they just can’t. They aren’t ready for it, or it passes them up. Dys seized it to the highest (degree).
To me, it is a no-brainer that he is the Most Improved.” –

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Zubac has really made offense difficult for Jokic…….Making him expend real energy to score and create basketball advantage –

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Zubac and Jokic draw offensive fouls against each other on back-to-back plays –

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It’s the LA Clippers that force the first timeout of the series, as they’re on a 6-0 go-ahead run and lead 17-13 with 6:12 left in 1st quarter
Matchups:
Clippers have Harden on Gordon, Leonard on Porter Jr., Dunn on Murray, Zubac on Jokic, Powell on Braun
Denver has MPJ on Dunn –

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The Clippers are getting whatever they want offensively….simple basketball….pick and roll….the nuggets are blitzing….Zubac is the release valve and they are playing 4 on 3 downhill…Clippers leading 17-13 –

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Pistons finding firepower with Cunningham on floor, Bickerstaff at the wheel.
Bickerstaff told me: “Our guys are going to show up and they’re going to fight and they’re going to test their opponent and the opponent’s going to have to be the better team.”
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Playoff basketball is back! Throwback Q&A with Cade Cunningham. –

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Dyson Daniels 3 cutds the Hawks deficit to 88-86. –

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Onyeka Okongwu just picked Tyler Herro’s pocket and scored a layup. Mo Gueye just blocked Alec Burks 3 and it runs out some clock, Heat have to chuck up a prayer and it hits backboard. Then Gueye makes a corner 3 in front of the Heat bench. Dyson Daniels picks off Wiggins. –

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Stretch Zu propaganda CONTINUES –

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Dyson Daniels is a candidate for DPOY and MIP with the Atlanta . So why didn’t Daniels play like that with the New Orleans ? The Australian tells @Andscape who’s to blame and talks about do or die Play-In game tonight. –

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I previewed Round 1 by diving into 4 fascinating matchups
—Boston’s 3-point attack vs. Orlando’s 3-point defense
—Cade Cunningham’s pick-and-roll brilliance vs. New York’s vulnerable pick-and-roll defenders
—Amen vs. Steph
—Julius Randle vs. JJ Redick
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Westbrook finished with 15 points on 5-for-17 shooting, but 10 of those points came in the fourth quarter and overtime. His putback with 3:37 to go in regulation, one of his four offensive rebounds on the night, gave the Nuggets their first lead at 93-92. Westbrook also made the defensive play of the game at the end of overtime as he deflected Nicolas Batum’s inbounds pass to James Harden with 10 seconds remaining and forced a turnover. -via / April 20, 2025

Nikola Jokic on Ivica Zubac: He’s really evolving his game.” “He’s a really good defender…it’s going to be a fun matchup.” -via / April 18, 2025

Bennett Durando: But now he can post up. He can pass it from the pocket. They are looking for him. He is really evolving his game.” -via / April 18, 2025

Cunningham’s emergence as an All-NBA player is one of the great individual stories this season. In his fourth season, the 23-year-old Cunningham produced his best season with career-highs in points (26.1 per game), assists (9.1 per game), field goal percentage (.469), 3-point percentage (.356) and games played (70). -via / April 19, 2025

It is something I always dreamt of. Just trying to stay rested and ready to go.” -via / April 17, 2025

Cade Cunningham will make his postseason debut in a place where he has had a handful of successful moments in his young career. I’ve played games there before. I think I have what it takes to do everything I like to do on the court. I am ready to go.” -via / April 17, 2025

NBA Communications:

Dyson Daniels of @ATLHawks

Draymond Green of @warriors

Evan Mobley of @cavs -via / April 20, 2025

But Daniels is quick enough to stay in front of playmakers. His hands are quicker than a three-card monte hustler’s, which he attributes to playing Australian rules football as a kid. And guarding underhanded gives him another advantage. “You’re putting a guy on the foul line just from silly mistakes like that. So I think for me, I’m reaching under.” -via / April 15, 2025

NBA Communications: The official 2024-25 NBA season leaders include: . -via / April 14, 2025

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