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- Blake Griffin and Andre Drummond combined for 63 points in the Detroit Pistons' 121-112 win over the Washington Wizards on Monday night.
- Kevin Durant scored 34 points and the Golden State Warriors are heading to their fourth straight NBA Finals after fighting back from another big deficit with a huge third quarter and beating the Houston Rockets, 101-92, in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals on Monday night.
- City of Gods, which is named after a Baltimore clothing store, includes several players with local ties, including former Maryland star James Gist and Omar Strong, a former two-time All-Metro guard at Douglass High who played collegiately at Texas Southern.
- The expectations have been raised, perhaps higher than they've been in a decade. The roster has been bolstered, with the additions of aging superstar Paul Pierce and blue-collar power forward DeJuan Blair. Are the Washington Wizards for real, or was last season just a nasty tease for the team's long-suffering fans?
- All Otto Porter Jr. and Glen Rice Jr. could do last season was sit, watch and wait. T
- Paul George scored a game-high 39 points, 28 in the second half, to help the Pacers take a 3-1 lead in this best-of-seven series.
- Bradley Beal scored a game-high 25 points and Trevor Ariza had 22 as the Wizards won their fourth straight road game in the playoffs and took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.
