12:51 AM ET ESPN News Services PHOENIX — Anthony Edwards scored a career-high 42 points, Karl-Anthony Towns added 41 and the Minnesota Timberwolves rallied to stun the Phoenix Suns 123-119 on Thursday night. At 19 years and 225 days old, Edwards became the third-youngest player in NBA history with a 40-point game. The Timberwolves still
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11:29 AM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — NBA star Stephen Curry is drawing acclaim from civil rights leaders for his work campaigning for social justice, his support of women’s causes and his interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci about the pandemic. The NAACP has given him its Jackie Robinson Sports Award. And, for the first
6:53 AM ET What is projected to happen in the 2021 NBA draft lottery? This will be the third lottery since the NBA flattened the odds, which introduced more uncertainty at the top of the draft order. Last season, the Minnesota Timberwolves won the lottery with the league’s third-worst record and the Charlotte Hornets jumped
2:29 AM ET DALLAS — Sometimes it doesn’t matter who defends Luka Doncic. Case in point — or 42 points, actually — Paul George, the LA Clippers superstar whose name always comes up in conversations about the NBA’s premier perimeter stoppers. Doncic made the four-time All-Defensive selection look foolish on numerous occasions during his masterful
2:40 AM ET LA Clippers All-Star Paul George, whose frustration has been building this season over not getting foul calls despite drawing contact in the paint, said the NBA has to look into the lack of calls for the Clippers on Wednesday night at the Dallas Mavericks. George said he felt the Clippers physically attacked
12:04 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN After Giannis Antetokounmpo hit a turnaround jumper in the lane to cap a personal 7-0 run and give his Milwaukee Bucks what turned out to be an insurmountable lead in an eventual 109-105 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers, he celebrated by sitting down on the court inside Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo
10:18 PM ET Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, revealed portions of her lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s and Fire departments in a series of Instagram posts on Wednesday. The 12 posts, which she shared with her 14.4 million followers, name the officers who allegedly shared photos of
12:32 AM ET The NBA and National Basketball Players Association have agreed to changes to the health and safety protocols that offer expanded benefits for those who have been fully vaccinated, according to a memo sent to teams Wednesday night that was reviewed by ESPN. Specifically, the changes to the protocols apply to any person
10:30 PM ET Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry suffered a tailbone contusion at the end of the third quarter of Wednesday night’s game at Houston and did not return for the fourth quarter. The injury occurred on the final play of the third quarter, after Curry missed an off-balance 3-pointer. Curry’s momentum took
7:23 PM ET The Houston Rockets have agreed to a trade with the Milwaukee Bucks that will send P.J. Tucker, Rodions Kurucs and the Bucks’ 2022 first-round pick back to Milwaukee for D.J. Augustin, D.J. Wilson and a 2023 unprotected first-round pick, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday. Houston also gets the right to
6:24 PM ET The most recent imaging on Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant‘s right hamstring strain showed “improvement,” but he is still a few weeks away from returning to game action, head coach Steve Nash said on Wednesday. Nash estimated Durant still needs more time to recover and then to steadily increase on-court activities. “We’re
7:42 PM ET Golden State Warriors big men James Wiseman and Eric Paschall (health and safety protocols) will not play against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night. “This is just modern life,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said prior to the game. “Everybody seems to be going through this at some level in sports. So you
12:53 PM ET The Oklahoma City Thunder are finalizing a trade to send forward Trevor Ariza to the Miami Heat for forward Meyers Leonard and a 2027 second-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Once the transaction is completed via a trade call with the league office on Wednesday afternoon, there’s no expectation that Leonard would be
3:05 PM ET Former NBA center Shawn Bradley suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed, according to a statement released on his behalf by the Dallas Mavericks. On Jan. 20, Bradley was struck from behind by an automobile while riding his bicycle a block from his home in St. George, Utah. He
12:53 PM ET Houston Rockets center Christian Wood is expected to return for Wednesday night’s home game against the Golden State Warriors after a sprained right ankle sidelined him for the entirety of a franchise-record-tying 17 game losing streak, sources told ESPN. Wood, who leads the Rockets with 22.0 points and 10.2 rebounds per game,
7:00 AM ET Malika Andrews Close ESPN Staff Writer Staff Writer Joined ESPN in 2018 Appears regularly on ESPN Chicago 1000 Ohm Youngmisuk Close ESPN Staff Writer Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He
2:46 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard sat down for his post-game availability with his right hand wrapped in ice and sporting a Marvelous Marvin Hagler sweatshirt. Lillard, perhaps the NBA’s biggest boxing fan, looked like he just gone through a 12-round fight Tuesday night. And while it looked like the
12:40 AM ET Philadelphia 76ers swingman Tobias Harris believes he should have been an All-Star this season. The 28-year-old is trying to let his play back up his case, evidenced by the 30 points he poured in during Tuesday night’s 99-96 come-from-behind win over the New York Knicks in Philadelphia. But he’s also offering other