Eric Maynor News

After waiting nearly a week for this epic series to start, it's finally arrived.

As the Oklahoma City Thunder prepare to battles the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals, the "up-and-coming"-type labels tagged to this young team are long gone.

The 2012 NBA Playoffs have seen one of the more magical runs in recent memory, with the young Oklahoma City Thunder defeating the past two NBA Champions in convincing fashion.

Leadership, heart and courage are just a few words used to describe Derek Fisher by his Oklahoma City Thunder teammates, however, experience is what they claim to be the most important.

The 2012 NBA All-Rookie Teams were announced today. Kyrie Irving and Ricky Rubio were among those named to the All-Rookie First Team.

HOOPSWORLD's Senior NBA Analyst Tommy Beer takes you through his most recent musings on the National Basketball Association in this latest installment of the NBA Six Pack: 1. Difficult Decisions Lie Ahead in Oklahoma City The Oklahoma City Thunder have as bright a future as any organization in the NBA.

James Harden was named the NBA's best sixth man yesterday to the surprise of no one.

When the Dallas Mavericks and the Oklahoma City Thunder last met it was in the Western Conference Finals, a series that had some extra drama as Thunder head coach Scott Brooks chose to go with reserve point guard Eric Maynor for a key stretch of Game 2, which the Thunder won.

The Mavericks won the NBA title last year. After two close wins at home, Oklahoma City went to Dallas and routed the Mavericks 95-79 Thursday night to put the defending champions on the brink of elimination.

They face a must win game Thursday night in Dallas, and are 3 point favorites. After two very close games, the #2 seed Oklahoma City Thunder, coached by Scott Brooks, held serve at home and took a 2-0 series lead against the #7 seed Dallas Mavericks, coached by Rick Carlisle.

Carles of Grantland looking back on predictions : "Backup point guard Eric Maynor went down with an early-season injury, which has been cited as one of the main problems with the Thunder going forward.

Lately it seems each passing day brings news of a different NBA player being injured.

Coming off a heartbreaking last second loss in Game 1, the Mavericks at least came away with one thing other than defeat, and that is confidence.

The reigning champion Dallas Mavericks vs. the ascendant Oklahoma City Thunder ; what's different from their 2011 playoff battle, which the Mavs won four-to-one? Kidd's assist-to-turnover ratio of 4.3 dwarfed Westbrook's 1.0 . Kidd's 36 percent shooting from three-point range matched Westbrook's total shooting percent, 36 percent, on 36 buckets on ... (more)