7:00 PM ET Guard Derrick White has signed a four-year, $72 million contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs, his agent, Mike Lindeman of Excel Sports, told ESPN on Monday. White, another in the Spurs’ history of player development stories, averaged 11.3 points in 2019-20. He was the 29th pick in the 2017 NBA draft
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6:56 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN In a change from his past statements on the topic of expansion, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Monday afternoon that the league has looked at some of its analysis of the ramifications of expanding beyond the league’s 30 teams. “I think I’ve always said that it’s sort of the manifest
6:11 PM ET Toronto Raptors forward OG Anunoby has agreed to a four-year, $72 million extension, including a player option for the 2024-25 season, Klutch Sports head of basketball Omar Wilkes told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Anunoby averaged a career high 10.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.6 assists for the Raptors in the regular season and
5:50 PM ET The Orlando Magic agreed to extensions with Jonathan Isaac and Markelle Fultz on Monday, locking up two former lottery picks in the 2017 draft. Isaac agreed to a four-year, $80 million deal, his agent, Jeff Wechsler, told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Fultz agreed to a three-year, $50 million extension, according to his agent,
3:50 PM ET Kawhi Leonard said the “best decision” for him is to likely decline the player option in his contract next summer, but that it doesn’t mean that the LA Clippers All-Star is “leaving or staying.” “Just for my situation right now, I’m just focused on this season,” Leonard said Monday. “Not saying I’m
3:50 PM ET After having cursory talks about a James Harden trade, the Miami Heat have moved on and will not pursue the Houston Rockets’ star, sources told ESPN. Miami is one of the teams that had the type of package of young prospects that the Rockets have been seeking in their pursuit of a
2:42 PM ET NEW YORK — When Kevin Durant makes his regular season debut for the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night, the former league MVP said that he doesn’t anticipate an added rush of emotions or higher stakes because he will be playing his former team, the Golden State Warriors. “I feel like each game
12:43 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN The Milwaukee Bucks have lost their 2022 second-round draft pick for violating rules governing the timing of this season’s free-agency discussions. The decision was announced by the NBA after a thorough investigation regarding the Bucks’ failed sign-and-trade agreement to acquire Bogdan Bogdanovic. The league found that the team had discussions
9:00 AM ET With the NBA season tipping off this week, here’s a look at the betting market around the country — including the teams attracting the most and least action, the biggest bets and some of the odds that have been on the move. Lots of Lakers love • The defending champion Los Angeles
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9:41 AM ET Perhaps no event in recent history has so clearly underlined how integral sports are to American culture as the COVID-19 pandemic. A new 30 for 30 podcast, “March 11, 2020” tells the story of a day that started in one reality and ended in a new one. Sports fans won’t soon forget
7:30 AM ET IT WAS THE summer of 2000, and to New York Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy, it felt about 104 degrees in the shade. He decided to move summer league workouts from his Westchester base to Fairfield University, home to an air-conditioned gym. He also decided to let assistant Tom Thibodeau run the
5:11 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma has agreed to a three-year, $40 million extension, including a player option prior to the 2023-24 season, sources tell ESPN. Kuzma, 25, finalized talks on his rookie extension on Sunday, sources said. In a rare non-max contract rookie extension that includes a player option, the deal
4:09 PM ET Ty Lue plans on utilizing Kawhi Leonard like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant by employing some triangle sets for the LA Clippers. The new Clippers coach said on Sunday that Leonard will have opportunities to emulate Jordan and Bryant — two players Leonard has spent a lot of time studying and patterning
1:45 PM ET John BarrESPN.com Close Joined ESPN in June 2003 Winner: 2013 Peabody Award; 2011 Edward R. Murrow Award/Video Investigative Reporting Covers breaking news, investigative pieces and human interest features An advocacy group took out a full-page advertisement in Sunday’s New York Times, calling on the NBA and 30 of its owners to force
12:42 PM ET The Sacramento Kings waived veteran forward/center Frank Kaminsky on Sunday. The Kings had signed the former lottery pick to a one-year contract last month after the Phoenix Suns declined his $5.2 million option for the 2020-21 season. In four preseason games with the Kings, Kaminsky averaged 5.3 points in 7.6 minutes per
9:55 AM ET All-NBA big man Rudy Gobert will sign a five-year, $205 million contract extension with the Utah Jazz, he told ESPN after agreeing to the largest deal for a center in league history. “It means that they believe in me,” Gobert told ESPN. “They believe in what we’ve been building over the years
12:04 AM ET Russell Westbrook drove the lane, found Thomas Bryant open for an easy dunk while the Washington Wizards‘ big man was fouled and then immediately ran to Bryant to scream his approval. In his first game with the Wizards, Westbrook only logged 17 first-half minutes in Washington’s 99-96 victory over the Detroit Pistons.