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12:23 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN NEW ORLEANS — Throughout the New Orleans Pelicans‘ much maligned start to the 2021-22 season, coach Willie Green has tried to stay positive about the direction in which his team is headed. But after a 108-100 loss to Oklahoma City on Tuesday night in which his team picked up five

9:09 PM ET Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. — The son of basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was sentenced to six months in jail for stabbing a Southern California neighbor with a hunting knife during an argument over trash cans, prosecutors said Wednesday. Adam Abdul-Jabbar, 29, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to three counts of

3:52 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra had no interest in rehashing Monday’s on-court incident involving his team and the Denver Nuggets, or the subsequent penalties handed down by the NBA on Tuesday. “I’m done talking about it,” Spoelstra said Wednesday after his team’s shootaround in advance of Miami’s game against

8:00 AM ET JALEN GREEN HEARS the wrath from the old man with the unmistakable, raspy voice. It’s a little less than an hour before the Rockets’ shootaround begins, but almost half the roster is already on the Footprint Center floor in Phoenix, running three-man pick-and-roll drills. John Lucas, the Rockets’ 68-year-old assistant coach, provides

9:59 PM ET Denver Nuggets star and reigning MVP Nikola Jokic has been suspended for one game without pay for forcefully pushing Miami Heat forward Markieff Morris in the back on Monday night. The Nuggets will not have their franchise center against Indiana on Wednesday Markieff Morris was also fined $50,000 for his flagrant two

11:55 AM ET Kelly CohenESPN Add prophet to Candace Parker‘s resume, which got a little more stacked a few weeks ago when she won the 2021 WNBA championship with the Chicago Sky. The basketball great — who also is an analyst on TNT — was able to look into a crystal ball Monday night and

4:49 PM ET Three former Phoenix Suns employees have received messages from Penny Sarver, the wife of Robert Sarver, who is the team’s majority owner. Two messages came from the @pennsar Instagram account and another was a text message from a number that belongs to Penny Sarver. These former employees say they consider the messages

1:11 PM ET Emotions from NBA MVP Nikola Jokic‘s retaliatory bodycheck from behind on Miami Heat forward Markieff Morris on Monday night have spilled onto social media as the brothers of both players weighed in. As the league looks into whether to levy any further punishment over the Denver Nuggets star’s ejection after his run-in

1:03 PM ET Former NBA point guard Deron Williams will fight ex-NFL running back Frank Gore in a boxing match on the Jake Paul-Tommy Fury undercard on Dec. 18 in Tampa, Florida, it was announced Tuesday. Williams and Gore will be making their pro boxing debuts. The bout is contracted for 215 pounds and four

10:00 AM ET The statistical story of Monday in the NBA was Stephen Curry delivering 50 points while propelling the Golden State Warriors to a 9-1 record in a win over the Atlanta Hawks. At 33 years, 240 days old, Curry became the oldest player with at least 50 points and 10 assists in a

12:41 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Warriors star guard Stephen Curry scored an NBA-season-high 50 points in Golden State’s 127-113 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night. Curry finished the night 14-for-28 from the field, 9-for-19 from 3-point range and 13-for-13 from the free throw line, while chipping in 10 assists and seven rebounds

11:56 PM ET The Denver Nuggets‘ Nikola Jokic and the Miami Heat‘s Markieff Morris both were given a flagrant foul 2 and ejected late in Monday night’s game in Denver. Morris had a hard foul on Jokic, who then came back and shoved Morris to the ground. Morris went down hard, and a stretcher was

8:00 PM ET Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. is out for the “foreseeable future” as he continues to undergo testing on his back, according to coach Michael Malone. Porter exited Saturday’s win over the Houston Rockets in the first quarter with what the team called back tightness. He was ruled out for Monday’s game

6:13 PM ET After initial resistance, Philadelphia 76ers All-Star guard Ben Simmons met with a team-recommended medical specialist to discuss his mental health on Monday, sources told ESPN. It is unclear what Monday’s meeting means for the Sixers’ ultimate hopes of a Simmons return to play, but it was a change of direction for Simmons

5:32 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden welcomed the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks to the White House on Monday, praising team members not just for their achievements on the court but also for their efforts to promote coronavirus vaccinations and for speaking out after the 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake

12:26 PM ET Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown will miss the next 1-2 weeks with a right hamstring strain, coach Ime Udoka announced Monday. Brown is leading the Celtics in scoring with a career-high 25.6 points per game. The injury has already forced Brown to miss one game, a buzzer-beater loss to the Dallas Mavericks

2:27 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Cavaliers starting guard Collin Sexton will be sidelined indefinitely after suffering a knee injury on Sunday in a win over the New York Knicks. Sexton got hurt in the second quarter of Cleveland’s 126-109 victory, which pushed the surprising Cavs to 7-4 this season. The team said Sexton

12:31 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols, a source told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Embiid returned a positive test for COVID-19 on Monday morning and is expected to miss several games, the source said. Embiid wasn’t at team shootaround Monday and was planning to rest Monday night’s