Melo has improved a lot this season, he will be very useful in the playoffs and this is the best moment for the Blazers as they are healthy. Anyway, it's still a game 1, there are more games to play but getting one win at home is already an advantage. Good job for Lillard,  McCollum, Melo, and the rest who contributed to the win.

Yeah, it was a close game. The Heat could have won this game, but Butler, Herro, and Adebayo had terrible field goal percentage. However, I won't be surprised if the Heat can win this series again as they did in the previous playoff.

Suns vs Lakers is a low-scoring game.

Great game by the Suns so far, they have a double-digit lead that the Lakers might not be able to come back, I give this game 1 already a win by the Suns, and good job Booker and Ayton for having a solid night.

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This should hit.

It's clear that this first game will go to the Phoenix Suns since from the start of the game they are not giving the Lakers a chance to overcome them. Now the Suns take the lead in their series 1-0. Lakers should begin to change the way they play in the next game if they want to survive the hurricane they are facing right now.

Looks like I underestimated the Suns that much. Just watching at the highlights of the game and you will see what really CP3 did to this team.
CP3 injured himself too but returned immediately to lead his team and Game 1 goes to them 99-90.

2 superstars of LA is just combined for 31 points while Booker/Ayton has 55 points. The Lakers needs to go back to the drawing board for Game 2.

That will be the end of the Knicks hype. What a terrible game by randle and the other starters.

Outscored 64:41 by the own bench. Whole bench has a positive +- while every starter has a negative one.

Good bye in the 1st round.

They may be measuring Suns offense and defense just like the trailblazers last year, LeBron doesn't want to drive in the lane, in the fourth quarter and Davis is so careful in his moves, looks like he has doubts that he might get injured, I'm still rooting for the lakers if they are defeated in the next game that would make the fans worried if they can still make it, but they got LeBron we don't know what he is thinking.

Memphis Grizzlies upsets the Utah Jazz. Nice. I am amazed with how wise Kyle Anderson and think clearly making a foul (penalty) to avoid a 3 point shot.
Fouling out Rudy Gobert by attacking the paint and switches was also the reason they won this game.
That's a good tactic by the Memphis Coach Taylor Jenkins and with Ja Morant leading them, they can win games even if they are the number 1 seed or GSW in the play-in tournament. But I think Mitchell will be playing in Game 2 and it's going to be more entertaining.

At first I was thinking that it's a bad idea but the coach didn't react and it turned to favor, if Jazz managed to set that
play it's very possible that they'll going to take three point shot  and bring this game to OT. Kudos for Anderson

They know the impact of Gobert, it's the best thing they've done attacking him to foul him out.

No doubts that the plays made them to take this win good designed  by the coaching staff, Ja Morant still young but
he really have that killing instinct taking the ball in his hand in the last dying minutes.

See him enjoying while watching his team, for sure it's a different game when he's already playing.

Well as you can see, we have several posts back discussing Kuzma's inconsistency and that is evident in this game 1.

Suns played good defense as well and then Lakers can't stop Devin Booker in this game. Lakers struggle as a team though, Davis, Lebron, Harrell and Drummond can't get things going for them. So we will see how they are going to adjust in game 2. Obviously, the Suns has the momentum, but let's see how CP3 is, let's hope he is ok and can play in this series.