Mike Dunleavy News

Apparently, Dunleavy's fine playoff showing after a quality regular-season performance has impressed some other NBA folks as well.

Hey, it didn't matter. The Milwaukee Bucks desperately needed a victory in the regular-season finale Wednesday night and couldn't care less who was on the floor for the Thunder.

A stroll through Furman University’s basketball archives stirs the souls of the purple-and-white faithful.

Unrestricted free agency is an exciting time for a player who has spent the majority of his career with one team.

We'd been told for years that professional athletes are Neanderthals who hate gay people.

Scott Skiles didn't get a contract extension and then was gone as head coach just 32 games into the season.

The Heat recorded their first series sweep in the playoffs since LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined Dwyane Wade in Miami.

Dan Feldman writes for the Deroit Pistons blog PistonPowered . His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Detroit Free Press nor its writers.

As the final buzzer sounded on the 2012-13 season for the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday, the team thought process immediately shifted from winning a playoff series to executing the perfect offseason plan.

The Bucks will interview Van Gundy and Sampson, the Rockets' top assistant, for the job vacated Wednesday when interim coach Jim Boylan was let go, league sources saida .

ST. FRANCIS, Wisconsin - A trip to the playoffs wasn't enough to save Jim Boylan's job with the Milwaukee Bucks.

Not that anyone expects Boylan back in the fall, but even waiting a few days to officially announce that the Bucks are looking for a new coach seems kind of long.

"My contract's up so I'm just going to have to figure out where that leaves me," Dunleavy said.

St. Francis - No decision was announced regarding interim Milwaukee Bucks coach Jim Boylan on Monday, one day after the Bucks completed their season by being swept in a first-round playoff series by the Miami Heat.

Lebron James lead all scorers with 30 points Sunday afternoon and the defending NBA champions easily swept the Bucks out of the eastern conference playoffs.

With the Miami Heat pulling away late once again, center Larry Sanders was gesturing at interim coach Jim Boylan, strongly suggesting that he put the benched Brandon Jennings in the game if the Bucks were to have the slightest chance to win.

The Miami Heat might need to have some brooms handy Sunday afternoon when they go for the sweep in their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series with the Milwaukee Bucks.

That funny math he used to predict the " Bucks in six " has crumbled over the past eight quarters of this series.

Some thoughts from the BMO Harris Bradley Center on Thursday night, where the Heat used a second-half surge to cruise to an easy 104-91 win over the Bucks.

Before the first round playoff series between the eighth-seeded Bucks and the defending champion Heat got started, Brandon Jennings went on record as saying that his team would win the series in six games.