8:00 AM ET LUKA DONCIC AND Dennis Smith Jr. had become fast friends after the Dallas Mavericks selected the teenager from Slovenia third overall in the 2018 NBA draft. Smith, whom the team had drafted ninth a year prior, had shown Doncic around the city and invited the new guy into his social circle. They
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11:26 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — After a whirlwind day that saw the Brooklyn Nets lose six players to the NBA’s health and safety protocols — including James Harden and Bruce Brown within an hour of tip-off — before escaping with a 131-129 overtime victory against the Toronto Raptors, coach Steve Nash said
7:45 PM ET NEW YORK — Stephen Curry is the new 3-point king of the NBA. The Golden State Warriors star guard became the all-time leader in 3-pointers Tuesday night against the Knicks, passing Hall of Famer Ray Allen by knocking down the 2,974th 3-pointer of his career. The record-breaking shot came with 7 minutes,
7:53 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The Milwaukee Bucks listed Giannis Antetokounmpo as out for Wednesday’s game against the Indiana Pacers after he was placed in the NBA’s health and safety protocols Tuesday night. Antetokounmpo went into the protocols a day after scoring 20 points in 34 minutes in a 117-103 loss to the Celtics in
1:50 PM ET LOS ANGELES — The Lakers canceled practice Tuesday after guard Talen Horton-Tucker returned a positive test for COVID-19 and entered into the league’s health and safety protocols, the team announced. L.A. had a practice scheduled ahead of its flight to Dallas on Tuesday afternoon. Rather than take the court, team members were
2:54 PM ET Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic will miss his third straight game Wednesday against the Los Angeles Lakers because of left ankle soreness, the team announced Tuesday. Doncic sprained that ankle on Nov. 15, missed the next three games and has dealt with persistent soreness since. He turned the ankle again during Friday’s
11:26 AM ET The Brooklyn Nets ruled four players out due to health and safety protocols on Tuesday morning against the Toronto Raptors. The Nets now have five players out due to health and safety protocols after starting center LaMarcus Aldridge, starting swingman DeAndre’ Bembry, power forward James Johnson and point guard Jevon Carter, who
8:00 AM ET Editor’s note: This story was originally published on May 5, 2020. “You’re actually rooting for the clothes, when you get right down to it.” This famous line from “Seinfeld” might have been intended to mock sports fandom, but when it comes to uniform appreciation, it’s actually appropriate. In this case, we are
8:00 AM ET Editor’s note: This story was originally published on April 8, 2016. Over the summer, I enlisted several design experts, including Tom O’Grady, the NBA’s former creative director, to help me rank all 30 team logos. O’Grady sifted through his archives, and unearthed a treasure: mock-ups of all the proposed uniforms, court designs,
9:53 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Milwaukee Bucks star Khris Middleton suffered a hyperextended left knee late in the third quarter of Monday night’s game here at TD Garden against the Boston Celtics, and was subsequently ruled out for the rest of the night by the team. Middleton suffered the injury when he landed
10:00 PM ET ESPN News Services Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry finished with five 3-pointers in Monday’s 102-100 win over the Indiana Pacers, putting him on the doorstep of the NBA’s all-time record that he will now look to break Tuesday night on the league’s grandest stage — Madison Square Garden. The 33-year-old sharpshooting
7:27 PM ET Team executives and other health officials around the NBA said they expect that more players will have to enter health and safety protocols after Christmas and New Year’s due to the likelihood of increasing cases of COVID-19 nationwide as people gather indoors for the holidays. Looming over the current uptick is the
1:49 PM ET As a COVID-19 outbreak sidelines 10 of its players, the NBA has postponed the next two Chicago Bulls games to allow the franchise to start getting back healthy players and curb further spread. In the first game casualties of the season, the NBA will reschedule the Bulls-Pistons game on Tuesday in Chicago,
2:07 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — As Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry sits on the precipice of breaking Ray Allen’s career 3-point record, he does so with only one regret over how the last week has played out in the buildup to the milestone. Curry said that while he would have still had the
10:44 AM ET Jamal Collier Chicago Bulls forward Alize Johnson has tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, making him the 10th Bulls player to land in the NBA’s health and safety protocols as an ongoing team outbreak continues to rip through Chicago’s roster. Johnson joins a lengthy list of
10:00 AM ET Working the waiver wire is pivotal to succeeding in fantasy basketball. With so many games, injuries and endless shifts in rotations throughout the marathon campaign, we’ll need to source stats from free agency to maximize imaginary rosters. A willingness to entertain competition for the last few spots on your fantasy hoops roster
8:00 AM ET As Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry continues his pursuit of Ray Allen’s all-time 3-point record — Curry is currently six behind the mark — we’re presenting our latest NBA Power Rankings with a focus on the deep ball. Which players are on pace to become their teams’ leader in 3s? Which
LOS ANGELES — After becoming the oldest player in league history to record a 30-point triple-double in the Los Angeles Lakers 106-94 win over the Orlando Magic on Sunday, LeBron James said the key to his eye-popping performance was an abundance of shuteye. After a whirlwind three days in which James played a road back-to-back