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Starting 5: West win streaks continue; Thunder-Lakers looms tonight
The Rockets, Nuggets and Spurs sizzled on Wednesday night, plus we take a look at a pair of key showdowns tonight on Prime Video.
Victor Wembanyama: youngest player ever to record back-to-back 40-point, 15-rebound games.
San Antonio Spurs: first team ever to win 26 of 28 games while averaging 120+ points and 30+ assists.
The West Playoff Race: just got even hotter thanks to the Spurs, Rockets and Nuggets.
West Streaks: Wemby sparks Spurs’ 10th straight W, Nuggets push streak to 7, Rockets climb
East Heat: Tatum & Brown take over, Hawks stay soaring, PG-13 pushes Sixers into Playoff position
Roundup: Knicks halt slide, DeRozan shines vs. Raptors, Pacers win again
The Bounce: The West’s best are charging toward the playoffs with zest
The Spurs and Nuggets are part of the fiercome foursome at the top of the Western Conference. Ronald Cortes / Getty Images
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On this date in 1975, Bob McAdoo won the MVP award. In the previous season (his second in the NBA), he finished second in MVP voting to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. McAdoo averaged 34.5 points in the 1974-75 campaign to lead the Buffalo Braves to a 49-33 record. His 2,831 points are the eighth-most points ever scored in a season. Only Wilt Chamberlain (four times), Michael Jordan (twice) and Kobe Bryant have scored more in a season.
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Starting 5: April begins with a historic West chase
The Spurs, Nuggets, Lakers and Thunder are rolling to open April. Which team will stand tallest when the dust settles?
Welcome to April, and a postseason push unlike any we’ve seen before.
The West’s top four teams have never all entered April on 3+ game win streaks… until now:
If the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet, that’s 22 straight wins for the top of the West — with less than two weeks left in the regular season.
On the line tonight? The league’s two longest heaters, as the Nuggets face the Jazz (9 ET, League Pass), before the Spurs visit the Warriors (10 ET, ESPN).
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