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The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. Today we’re getting the news of who won Rookie of the Year between Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel. It has been one of the hotly debated NBA topics in the last two months, and it’s…

The next step toward NBA Draft reform will take place on Tuesday, when league officials are hosting a general managers’ meeting on Zoom that was added to the schedule as a way for all 30 front offices to continue taking part in this pivotal process. Yet according to league and team sources, a heavy frontrunner…

It’s anyone’s series now. With the New York Knicks and Atlanta Hawks’ Eastern Conference first-round bout tied at two games a piece and with Game 5 scheduled for Tuesday, James L. Edwards III and Fred Katz got together to break down what has been a chaotic four games. What Knicks-related storyline are you paying attention…

PHILADELPHIA — The goals Payton Pritchard writes down for himself might seem a little unusual to anyone driven by results. He doesn’t jot down the accolades he hopes to win or the statistics he intends to produce. In some ways, at least, he believes such accomplishments are out of his control. Instead, Pritchard’s goals focus…

The Los Angeles Lakers couldn’t pull off a sweep on Sunday, but the Oklahoma City Thunder are heavily favored to do so on Monday. The Thunder are favored by 10.5 points for Game 4 in Phoenix. Elsewhere, the Denver Nuggets are favored by double digits to stay alive against shorthanded Minnesota. Plus, Detroit tries to…

The Houston Rockets played without Kevin Durant for the second straight game and third time overall in the first round, and this time they won without him. Amen Thompson finished with 23 points and seven assists, and the No. 5-seeded Rockets avoided a sweep in the Western Conference playoffs by defeating the No. 4 Los…

Los Angeles Lakers center Deandre Ayton was ejected from Game 4 of the Western Conference quarterfinals series against the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center after striking Houston All-Star center Alperen Şengün in the head with his left forearm. Ayton committed the foul with 5:41 left to play in the third quarter with the Rockets leading…

Payton Pritchard scored a playoff-career-high 32 points, and the Boston Celtics cruised to a 128-96 road win in Game 4 of their first-round series with the Philadelphia 76ers. Boston now leads 3-1. Pritchard came off the bench to score 13 points in the first quarter before adding 14 in the third quarter while hitting 6…

Emotions ran high during Sunday’s Game 4 first-round matchup between the San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trail Blazers. Portland’s Deni Avdija called San Antonio’s Stephon Castle “disrespectful” for their late-game altercation as the Spurs secured a 114-93 win and 3-1 series lead. With 2:13 remaining, Castle got past Avdija for an and-1 basket and put…

Nikola Jokić was fined $50,000, and Julius Randle was fined $35,000 for their roles in an altercation between the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwovles at the end of Saturday’s Game 4 in Minneapolis. The NBA announced the punishments Sunday, one day ahead of a potential closeout Game 5 on Monday night in Denver. Advertisement With…