3:09 PM ET “The right thing to do is to continue to play.” – Adam Silver, NBA Commissioner Welcome to sports, December 2021. I’ll take it. Eighteen months ago, sports was me betting my daughter which Amazon package would arrive next. Last night, I watched my Washington Football Team lose a nationally-televised game with significant
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2:42 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Tim MacMahon Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Dallas Mavericks All-NBA guard Luka Doncic has entered the league’s health and
12:35 PM ET The Atlanta Hawks added two more players to the NBA’s health and safety protocols Wednesday and signed Lance Stephenson amid the COVID-19 surge that has impacted rosters around the league. Lou Williams and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot were added to the team’s protocols list, joining Trae Young, Clint Capela and Danilo Gallinari, who had
11:18 AM ET Free-agent guard Joe Johnson is returning to the NBA after a three-year absence and at age 40, as he is signing a 10-day contract with the Boston Celtics, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Johnson is expected to play in Wednesday’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, sources said. He last played in the
10:05 AM ET Thursday’s scheduled game between the Nets and Trail Blazers has been postponed, as the NBA announced that coronavirus-struck Brooklyn does not have the required eight players available for the contest. This is the third straight Nets game that has been postponed over the past week. Games against the Denver Nuggets on Sunday
2:53 AM ET Back at .500 at 16-16 following a 108-88 loss to the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James made it sound like he knows as much about his team’s potential now as he did when they were 0-0 to start the season. “We don’t know,” James said. “We have
4:49 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Manu Ginobili leads the list of first-time nominees for the 2022 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class, which was announced live on ESPN’s NBA Today on Tuesday. Ginobili was a mainstay of the San Antonio Spurs‘ dynasty, winning four championships in addition to an Olympic gold medal with Argentina
4:30 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NBA commissioner Adam Silver told ESPN’s Malika Andrews that the league has no plans to suspend its season as COVID-19 surges through the league. “No plans right now to pause the season,” Silver said in an interview on NBA Today on Tuesday afternoon. “We have of course looked at all
2:11 PM ET ESPN News Services The 10 NBA teams with games scheduled on Christmas were told by the league Tuesday that shifting some game times is a possibility for the planned five-game slate if virus-related issues force changes to the lineup. The league told the teams the priority is filling the ABC windows for
8:48 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN In the aftermath of his record-breaking game last week at Madison Square Garden, Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has launched a new NFT collection to celebrate each and every one of those 2,974 made 3-pointers. The “2974 Collection” launched Monday at 2974SC.com, and it features a series of nonfungible
9:04 PM ET LA Clippers star swingman Paul George will return and start against the San Antonio Spurs on Monday night. George had not played since Dec. 6 at Portland when he scored 21 points. He missed five games after that with a right elbow sprain. George is averaging 25 points, 7.3 rebounds and 5.4
7:34 PM ET One of the hottest teams in the league is getting their star point guard back. Ja Morant returned for the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday against the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder after missing more than three weeks with a left knee sprain. Morant sprained his knee in a Nov. 26 loss to the
12:38 PM ET Associated Press Steve Kerr saw everything that Gregg Popovich went through as coach of the U.S. men’s national team, saw exactly how difficult it was last summer for the Americans to emerge from the Tokyo Olympics with another gold medal. And when he walked off the floor for the last time in
8:00 AM ET Stephen Curry took center stage to start the week as he continued his pursuit of Ray Allen’s 3-point record. Curry hit six 3s on Monday night against the Indiana Pacers to pull within two shots of the top spot, then quickly hit two 3s in the first quarter of Tuesday’s win over
1:34 AM ET Jamal Collier CHICAGO — In his first game in more than two weeks after clearing the NBA’s health and safety protocols, Chicago Bulls star DeMar DeRozan matched a season high with 38 points, including 19 in the fourth quarter, to lead the Bulls to a 115-110 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers
12:33 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association came to an agreement Sunday night on rules over allowing additional replacement players for teams dealing with players entering the league’s health and safety protocols, according to a memo obtained by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The amended rules, which were outlined in the
9:12 PM ET CHICAGO — Anthony Davis said he “heard something pop” when the Minnesota Timberwolves‘ Jaden McDaniels crashed into his left knee on Friday. And so when the Los Angeles Lakers star collapsed in the tunnel on the way to the locker room, he said it wasn’t just because of pain. It was mental
9:22 PM ET The Golden State Warriors will be without Andrew Wiggins for at least Monday night’s game against the Sacramento Kings after he was placed in the league’s health and safety protocols. Wiggins landed there Sunday, joining teammate Jordan Poole, who was added to the protocols last week. Wiggins’ vaccination status was a major