Basketball Intelligence for 4/10/24

Edwards, SGA, Embiid, Wemby, and more from a monstrous night of NBA action

LEAGUEWIDE STORIES

The NBA playoffs are a pressure cooker. These stars will feel it the most.
Ben Golliver, Washington Post

Excerpt: Pipeline to the Pros: How D3, small-college nobodies rose to rule the NBA
Ben Kaplan/Danny Parkins, HoopsHype

NBA Power Rankings: Joel Embiid returns for 76ers as regular season wraps
Staff, ESPN

TEAM STORIES

ATL: Hawks fight back but fall to Heat in double overtime
Lauren Williams, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

BOS: How the Celtics became first NBA team to play a game without getting a foul shot
Jack Maloney, CBS Sports

With 19 seconds remaining in the first quarter of the Milwaukee Bucks' 104-91 win over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night, Giannis Antetokounmpo was fouled by Luke Kornet while going up for a putback attempt and made one of his two free-throw attempts. That was the first and last time anyone went to the free-throw line in the game.

The lack of free throws resulted in a record-setting game that was over in less than two hours.

BOS: Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla believes there’s no wrong path to navigating stretch run
Adam Himmelsbach, Boston Globe