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ESPN News Services Jun 2, 2023, 08:51 PM ET DETROIT — Monty Williams is taking over the Detroit Pistons. The team said Friday it reached an agreement with Williams to fill its coaching vacancy. Terms of the deal were not announced, but sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski Williams agreed to a six-year, $78.5 million contract.

Associated Press Jun 2, 2023, 07:14 PM ET DENVER — Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant not being charged with a crime for twice displaying a gun on social media will not prevent the NBA from handing down more discipline, commissioner Adam Silver said Friday. Silver is preparing to announce whatever penalty is coming Morant’s way

Tim MacMahon, ESPN Staff WriterJun 2, 2023, 06:46 PM ET Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM No, Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic‘s point toward his hand as he walks off the floor after wins is not a reference to the championship

Jun 2, 2023, 01:47 PM ET Oklahoma City Thunder forward Aleksej Pokusevski suffered a small fracture in his upper right arm during an offseason workout and will be reevaluated in four to six weeks, the team announced. Pokusevski, 21, averaged 8.1 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.3 blocks in 34 games (25 starts) last season. He

Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderJun 2, 2023, 01:01 PM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The Phoenix Suns are finalizing a deal to hire Frank Vogel as coach, sources told ESPN on Friday. The Suns offered Vogel the job Friday morning and are expected to complete terms on a long-term

Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderJun 2, 2023, 11:40 AM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The Utah Jazz‘s G League affiliate, the Salt Lake City Stars, is hiring former Marquette coach Steve Wojciechowski as head coach, sources told ESPN on Friday. Wojciechowski, who has been living in the Salt Lake

Ramona Shelburne, ESPN Senior WriterJun 2, 2023, 02:05 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News DENVER — Every once in a while, when things look good but feel a little bit off, Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone will turn around in the middle of a game

Nick Friedell, ESPN Staff WriterJun 2, 2023, 01:32 AM ET Close Nick Friedell is the Chicago Bulls beat reporter for ESPN Chicago. Friedell is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and joined ESPNChicago.com for its launch in April 2009. DENVER — The Miami Heat set an NBA postseason

Associated Press Jun 1, 2023, 10:58 PM ET DENVER — Nikola Jokic got a triple-double in his NBA Finals debut, Jamal Murray scored 26 points and the Denver Nuggets had little trouble with the cold-shooting Miami Heat on the way to a 104-93 win in Game 1 on Thursday night. Jokic finished with 27 points,

ESPN staffJun 1, 2023, 06:48 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print The 2023 NBA Finals are here. The Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat took two different routes to the championship. Denver cruised through the Western Conference finals with a resounding sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers and have been off for 10

Associated Press Jun 1, 2023, 08:49 PM ET DENVER — The latest sanctions, if any, that the NBA plans to levy against Memphis guard Ja Morant for his second instance of displaying a gun on social media will be announced shortly after the finals, Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday. Silver did not say what the

Jun 1, 2023, 06:45 PM ET Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro will continue to test his surgically repaired right hand, and a return to the lineup for Game 2 of the NBA Finals against the Denver Nuggets looms as a possibility, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Thursday. Herro, who had surgery to fix the

Tim Bontemps, ESPNJun 1, 2023, 05:11 PM ET CAMDEN, N.J. — New Philadelphia 76ers coach Nick Nurse was asked about the status of pending free agent James Harden, and how he’d sell the star guard on playing for him next season. “Winning has to be the sell, right?” Nurse said during his introductory news conference

Jun 1, 2023, 01:12 PM ET Joe Mazzulla remains head coach of the Boston Celtics and will return next season, team president Brad Stevens said Thursday. “He’s a terrific leader,” Stevens said. “He’ll only get better at anything that he can learn from this year, because he’s constantly trying to learn. And he’s accountable.” Mazzulla,

The Denver Nuggets are in their first NBA Finals in franchise history, while the Miami Heat are in their seventh since 2006. The average prices for tickets to this year’s Finals, however, are lower than the prices for the 2022 series between the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors. For the series, the average price

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Jun 1, 2023, 08:41 AM ET As this year’s Finals take place with the Miami Heat facing the Denver Nuggets, we’re looking back at legendary performances from superstars such as LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Michael Jordan, with the help of Basketball-Reference.com’s game score archive. Editor’s Picks 2 Related Game score, pioneered by John Hollinger,

Andre Snellings, ESPNMay 31, 2023, 04:20 PM ET The NBA Finals are here, and they cap a playoffs that has been full of surprises with a matchup that not many saw coming: the No. 1 seed Nuggets and the No. 8 seed Heat. In these playoffs, two-time MVP Nikola Jokic has “introduced” himself to a