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This weekend, the 2015 NBA playoffs get started. We're going to miss Russell Westbrook and the Thunder, but other than that, the league's biggest stars will take the league's biggest stage on Saturday and Sunday, with all eight first-round series kicking off either Saturday or Sunday.

When Duke beat Wisconsin, 68-63 to win the NCAA Men’s National Championship, 12 year old Sam Holtz became a winner too. Holtz, a 6th grader from Lake Zurich, Illinois, won the top spot in ESPN’s bracket contest.

The Maine Red Claws for the first time, will be playing in the NBA Development League playoffs. The D-League affiliate of the Boston Celtics earned their first birth in the post-season by capturing the number one seed and will face number four seed and defending league champion, the Fort Wayne Mad Ants.

Wisconsin and Duke each won Final Four games on Saturday to advance to Monday’s national title game. Here’s a recap of the day’s action.

NCAA Final Four is all set and my bracket is busted. Duke beat Gonzaga 66-52 to advance and I had the ‘Zags’ in the Championship game against Kentucky.

So how is your NCAA bracket going? If it’s anything like mine you won’t win the million dollars. The fact is nobody will win the million dollars.

We are smack in the middle of the phenomenon known as March Madness where the titans of the sport duke (not Duke) it out for the title of national champion, as a field of 68 will be whittled down to one.

The #1 seeds for the 2015 NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament are... Kentucky, Duke, Wisconsin and Villanova. 64 other teams are in too, so let the madness begin!

The members of the 2015 Maine McDonald's Senior All-Star basketball teams have been announced.

The Harlem Globetrotters are coming to the Augusta Civic Center. Their amazing skills will be on display March 30 at 7pm. They have been entertaining crowds since 1927 when they were known as the Savoy Big Five.

It's that time again. Here you go. We have the complete remaining schedules for the Maine Principals' Association boys' and girls' basketball state tournaments in Augusta, Bangor and Portland. Because of the storm the Western D Girls’ Semis and all Western C Semis scheduled for Thursday (Feb. 19) in Augusta have been moved to Friday (Feb. 20.) Bangor and Portland Games are still on.

Not sure if this is the most lopsided victory in high school basketball but it has to be one of them. It is the second most in this area of California as Arroyo Valley’s girls’ basketball team beat Bloomington by a score of 161-2. That doesn’t even seem possible but it happened.

Lawrence High School girls' basketball coach John Donato has joined the 500-win coach club - a club that includes only a few around the state.

The Maine Red Claws are set to begin their sixth season in Portland.

During a USA Basketball scrimmage last night in Las Vegas, Indiana Pacers all-star Paul George fractured both his tibia and fibula in a gruesome accident, putting his 2014-15 season in jeopardy.

Andrew Wiggins is showing why he's jumped toward the top of most mock NBA drafts.