Author: Matt Eppers, USA TODAY

Kyrie Irving wouldn’t discuss his visible frustration with the Celtics’ final play, but he had plenty to say about the team’s overall struggles.

Luka Doncic came into the NBA with high expectations. We might need to start thinking even bigger after his late-game heroics beat the T’wolves.

Jimmy Butler was hot after taking an elbow from Alex Len, but T.J. McConnell intervened and dragged Butler away before things got out of hand.

LaMarcus Aldridge poured in a career-high 56 points to help the Spurs outlast the Thunder 154-147 in the most exciting game of the season.

Thomas Bryant scored 31 points on 14-for-14 shooting, the seventh game in NBA history in which a player made at least 14 field goals without a miss.

Markelle Fultz’s status has been the biggest— and strangest— mystery of the season. 76ers GM Elton Brand did little to shed any light on things.

On the latest episode of “The Shop,” LeBron James offered a scathing assessment of NFL owners when discussing player protests over social injustice.

Houston had eight different players hit a 3-pointer, and five made at least three from deep, to set a single-game record with 26 in a 136-118 win.

LeBron James and Lonzo Ball became the first teammates since 2007 with triple-doubles in the same game, and the first Lakers to do it since 1982.

A three-team deal involving the Suns, Grizzlies and Wizards fell through over confusion about which player named Brooks would be included.