6:57 PM ET Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Devin Cannady scored 22 points and the Lakeland Magic won the NBA G League championship Thursday, beating the Delaware Blue Coats 97-78 at Walt Disney World Resort. Cannady, a point guard from Princeton, was 9 of 16 from the field, hitting 4 of 9 3-pointers
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11:54 AM ET New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson was placed on Team USA’s prospective roster for the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, one of 15 names added as the team prepares for roster uncertainty as it heads into an unprecedented summer. The New York Knicks‘ Julius Randle and Chicago Bulls‘ Zach LaVine, both first-time All-Stars
11:30 AM ET The NBA fined Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard $50,000 and suspended him from the team facility and all its activities for one week on Thursday after he used an anti-Semitic slur during a video game livestream earlier this week. Leonard will also be required to take part in a cultural diversity program,
11:00 AM ET Team USA enters the Olympics in Tokyo as the three-time defending gold medal winner, but is coming off a disappointing seventh-place finish at the 2019 FIBA World Cup, the worst finish ever in a major international competition by a team from the United States. Despite finishing seventh in China, Team USA has
6:55 AM ET One of the many criticisms about New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau was that he would be unable to adapt his eat-breathe-sleep basketball ways to a new wave of young players. But after being fired by the Minnesota Timberwolves in January 2019, Thibodeau is at the start of a third basketball
1:30 AM ET DALLAS — The first half of the season wasn’t much fun for Kristaps Porzingis. He missed the Dallas Mavericks‘ first nine games while recovering from surgery to repair the meniscus injury in his left knee that forced him to sit out the final few games of his first NBA playoff series. Porzingis’
9:37 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry doesn’t know where his future lies after this season or even after this year’s trade deadline. But he is sure of one thing: Whenever his career comes to an end, he will be retiring in a Raptors uniform. “Let me say this: I will retire
11:29 PM ET Golden State Warriors center James Wiseman missed a COVID-19 test during the All-Star break which forced him to miss Wednesday’s practice, putting his status for Thursday’s game against the LA Clippers in jeopardy. “It was a mistake,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after Wednesday’s practice in Los Angeles. “He just forgot. So
10:28 PM ET ESPN News Services Meyers Leonard‘s coach and Miami Heat teammates offered no excuse Wednesday for his use of an anti-Semitic slur during a recent video game livestream, nor did they make any effort to hide their disappointment in him in their first public comments about the incident. “He said something that was
7:44 PM ET The San Antonio Spurs and veteran power forward/center LaMarcus Aldridge have mutually agreed that he will not return to the team, coach Gregg Popovich announced Wednesday night. The Spurs are engaged on several fronts with potential trades for Aldridge and believe they can find a deal — perhaps even in the next
7:47 PM ET NEW YORK — Kevin Durant, who remains sidelined for the Brooklyn Nets with a hamstring strain, is scheduled to have more imaging done on the injury next week. Head coach Steve Nash said the hope is that those scans will dictate a clearer return timeline for Durant. Nash made it clear that
5:58 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Joe Tait, a longtime Cleveland sports broadcaster and voice of the Cavaliers for more than four decades, died Wednesday. He was 83. Tait had recently gone into hospice care following a lengthy batter with kidney disease and liver cancer. “A friend and mentor to many over the years,
4:33 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart says he should be good to go when the Celtics begin the second half of their season in Brooklyn against the Nets on Thursday night. “I feel great,” said Smart, who has been out since suffering a calf strain against the Los Angeles Lakers on
2:31 PM ET Nike and the NBA have released a set of 16 new “Earned Edition” jerseys for the 2020-21 season. The new looks are available exclusively to the 16 teams that reached the 2020 playoffs inside the Orlando, Florida bubble. In a press release on Wednesday, the NBA said the new jerseys “amplify the
12:34 PM ET New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman, who is Jewish, posted an open letter to Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard about Leonard’s use of an anti-Semitic slur during a recent video game livestream. In a video that surfaced Tuesday on social media, Leonard can be heard saying: “F—ing cowards; don’t f—ing snipe
11:14 AM ET There’s a new MVP favorite as the NBA regular season prepares to resume. Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid overtook Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James last week and is now the consensus favorite to win the regular-season MVP award at sportsbooks around the nation. Embiid is listed at +200 to win MVP
7:00 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN THE UTAH JAZZ were moments away from tipping off against the Oklahoma City Thunder on March 11, 2020. A positive COVID-19 test from center Rudy Gobert abruptly halted the game, and the official announcement that night said the league was going on hold “until further notice.” At the time, league
5:32 PM ET The NBA said Tuesday that it is looking into Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard‘s use of an anti-Semitic slur during a video game livestream. In a video that surfaced Tuesday, Leonard can be heard saying: “F—ing cowards; don’t f—ing snipe me, you f—ing k— b—-.” “We just became aware of the video