Sentences with phrase «regular season team»

Now that the Thunder have crashed that party, can they keep rolling as they try to knock off the greatest regular season team in NBA history?

It was Team Levine's first loss in a Regular Season Team Sport in their 2 seasons in the League.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are NBA champions, executing one of the greatest comebacks in league history against the best regular season team ever.

The Metropolitan was a juggernaut last year, and it will be difficult for teams to contend with the Penguins and last year's best regular season team, Washington Capitals (+250), for the top divisional seed.

Oklahoma City put forth the best effort imaginable against the best regular season team in NBA history.

(Then again, I wasn't able to imagine three max players teaming up in 2010 or the greatest regular season team of all - time adding a Top 3 player.

For one desperate night, the best players on the NHL's best regular season team actually played like it.

Fast forward one week and the NHL's best regular season team is on the verge of advancing to the conference finals.

Also key, if there were to be a tie come the end of the Regular Season Team Lalez now shares the head to head tiebreaker with Team Maione instead of losing it..

Perhaps the best value in hockey was the Washington Capitals, one of the league's most exciting, successful regular season teams which plays in an excellent arena in downtown Washington D.C..

Probably not, but great regular season teams have shat the bed going into the playoffs and found themselves bounced in the first round.

Not exact matches

With college basketball's regular season schedule finished, men's basketball teams compete against their conference rivals today and through the weekend for their final shot at improving their standing with the NCAA Tournament selection committee.

You're still playing just as hard, you're doing all the things, but playoffs means if you have one team to focus on, that means you can study all your regular - season matchups against them, you can learn all the information you need to learn to prepare yourself for this playoff series.

Only Vancouver cracked the Top 15, placing 13th on the strength of the strongest regular season of any of the Canadian teams.

A change at the center of a team's offense will always come with a few hiccups, and pulling it off mid-season is no easy task, especially with a quarterback who has played a regular - season game in nearly two years.

According to TiqIQ, the average ticket price for Jeter's last regular - season home game has already reached more than 2 1/2 times the peak average price for the final home game of all - star pitcher Mariano Rivera, who debuted with the Yankees in 1995, the same year as Jeter, and retired last year after 19 seasons with the team.

A battle over how players and team owners will split the league's $ 4 billion in annual revenue, which led to the suspension of exhibition and regular - season games through at least Nov. 14, is bringing collateral damage to a range of businesses counting on professional basketball events to survive, including caterers, bars, stores, parking lots — and even the self - employed masseurs who tend to players.

His résumé is enough to justify it: two - time MVP, first unanimous MVP, scoring champion, NBA champion, best player on a team that won more regular season games than any team in NBA history.

I found myself way too invested in an early regular season game between two middling teams, though it was an entertaining show: New York's 7» 3 ″ phenom / freak - of - nature Kristaps Porzingis dropped 31 points in a 107 - 103 New York win.

It was the first Fall Classic since 1970 between two teams with at least 100 wins during the regular season, as Los Angeles won 104 games and Houston won 101.

He recently led his team to the best regular season in NBA history, breaking a record held by Jordan's Chicago Bulls.

With just over a month of baseball to go in the regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game back of them.

There is a strong feeling that the England international midfield star Jack Wilshere is going to rescue his Arsenal career and come back to be a first team regular again, as long as this season on loan at AFC Bournemouth sees him play the regular football that all of his injury problems have denied him at his boyhood club, the mighty Arsenal.

The talented 19 - year - old has not yet become a full first - team regular for the Magpies, though he did make six appearances for the senior side last season, scoring two goals to attract some interest from bigger clubs.

In three regular season matchups between these two teams this season, the home team won every game with Anaheim holding a 2 - 1 edge per the OddsShark NHL Database.

These two teams were separated by only one point during the regular season, and the difference between them has been razor thin over the last few seasons, with Montreal holding a slight edge of 12 - 10 in the previous 22 games in this head - to - head series.

A team that Davidson had beaten twice during the regular season was in overtime against the conference leader.

OT: has anyone else forgot the fact that Coquelin has only been playing regular first - team football with us for half a season...?

This looks a good buy for Tim Sherwood's side as they hope to fight the drop this season, and Traore himself would certainly benefit from playing regular first - team football.

The two teams battled just once during the regular season and, to put it gently, it was a disaster.

Both teams were part of a three - way split of the Big Ten regular season championship, and each comes into the matchup with perhaps a shot at a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Granit Xhaka was added to our midfield ranks but has so far failed to nail down a regular first - team role, while Santi Cazorla being in his final season of his contract could lead you to want extra oomph to our central positions.

The Big Ten Tournament Championship is a rematch of each team's final regular season game, which Ohio State won to prevent the Spartans from winning the conference title outright.

Really, I'm mostly suggesting that every team should come up with their own badass socks for every regular season game.

Toral had a good season last year in the Championship with Birmingham, but he was allowed to return to Spain with Granada this season, but he hasn't been able to force himself into a regular first team spot at the La Liga minnows.

The Mountaineers, struggling through a rare losing season while a fine freshman team simmered, started shooting like Daniel Boone in their last regular game, embarrassing a good Virginia Tech team by a 54 - point margin at Morgantown.

The player simply has everything it takes and while we may have to wait till next season to see him getting regular first - team action, I firmly believe that he can contribute significantly towards the remainder of the current campaign as well.

The 76ers and Heat split their four games during the regular season, with each team winning both home games.

I could come back by saying that — at least since the Wade / Bosh / Haslem Miami team — he has never had a team where he didn't have to play 37 - 40 high - leverage minutes for 80 games in the regular season, either.

Texas Rangers outfielder and soon - to - be free agent, Josh Hamilton, will take the blame for his team losing the AL West on the final day on the regular season.

One of the three best teams in the NFL during the regular season, the Falcons are 0 - 3 in the playoffs in the Matt Ryan era.

This isn't about who will help his team win a typical regular - season game more.

The Spaniard has come on leaps and bounds since earning a regular starting role, even picking up the award for the PFA Premier League Team of the Year for last season.

This season we had Arteta as our club captain, who did not start a single Premier League match, and was not expected to be a regular in the first - team either.

A championship game matching two undefeated teams — Alabama and Texas — in a regular season that finished with five of them will lack meaning and validity.

The report claims that the versatile defender will be earning in excess of # 100,000 a week and that suggests to me that Arsene Wenger is expecting Kolasinac to be a regular first team player and an intrinsic part of the side next season.

Plus, in the case of this year, human voters and some computers determined that Alabama was a better, more deserving team than Oklahoma State, but Oklahoma State gets the nod simply because they didn't have to play LSU in the regular season and Alabama did.

Does fairness include giving teams with the best regular seasons a significant advantage?

The Nigerian international defender spent last season on - loan at Istanbul minnows Kasimpasa and established himself as a first team regular in one of the best performing defensive sides.

Eccleston, a regular for the Under - 18s and reserves, has made five appearances for Liverpool so far this season but it is unclear whether Hodgson considers him a potential first - team regular.