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The NBA's gone quiet with everybody off ice for their veins for a minute, but preseason buckets start flowing again in early October and the real dagger-and-splash action tips off late October.

NBA · offseason

The marquee game Sunday night is the New York Knicks traveling to San Antonio to take on the Spurs at Frost Bank Center on ABC, and at 62-20 the San Antonio Spurs have been an absolute clinic all season — they come in as 5.5-point favorites and they have earned every bit of that number. The Knicks at 53-29 are no pushovers and they can absolutely get buckets, but stopping whatever San Antonio has been cooking up in the paint all year is a different ask entirely.

If New York is going to steal one on the road, somebody is going to have to have ice in his veins down the stretch because this Spurs squad does not take the L lightly.

NBA · from 12 Jun

The night's real marquee is New York Liberty at Minnesota Lynx, a heavyweight clash with the Lynx sitting at a gaudy 31-9 and looking to keep their foot on the gas down the stretch. Vegas has Minnesota favored by 7.5, but the Liberty have the buckets to hang if their guards get hot from deep and start splashing early.

Also keep an eye on Las Vegas at Seattle, where the Aces are heavily favored and could put on an absolute clinic against a Storm squad that's taken the L way too often this season.

WNBA · 17 Sept · The week ahead