1:47 PM ET NBA team personnel are expected to be asked to submit personal medical histories to a panel of physicians who would review the individual risk of serious illness due to any spread of the coronavirus in the NBA’s bubble environment in Orlando, Florida, sources told ESPN. It is unclear what authority, if any,
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1:42 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN In the wake of George Floyd’s death while in police custody in Minneapolis last week, the Minnesota Timberwolves have been active in the community while pushing for changing social injustice with a diverse staff in place. As the NBA’s only Latino president of basketball operations, the Wolves’ Gersson Rosas hopes
7:29 AM ET NBA Insiders Who are the favorites in the new NBA playoff races, and which team will win it all? The NBA is planning to restart with 22 teams in Orlando on July 31, featuring an eight-game regular season, a potential play-in series for the No. 8 seeds and then the playoffs. A
3:08 PM ET DALLAS — Mavericks owner Mark Cuban implored people to have honest, uncomfortable conversations about race as a means of helping the country move forward. Cuban made his comments Tuesday morning at an invitation-only event billed as “Courageous Conversation,” a series of discussions about systemic racism and disparities facing the black community. The
9:49 PM ET Houston Rockets guard Russell Westbrook is producing a documentary series about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, according to Variety. Westbrook will be the executive producer for the series, which is titled “Terror In Tulsa: The Rise And Fall of Black Wall Street,” Variety reported Tuesday. Westbrook will be collaborating with documentary filmmaker
5:03 PM ET ESPN News Services The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament is known as one of the biggest fishing events in the country. Fittingly, Michael Jordan entered the 62nd installment of the annual tournament and made an immediate impact. Jordan and the crew on his boat, Catch 23, reeled in a 442-pound blue marlin
8:46 PM ET Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he is hopeful the NBA will grant the eight teams that did not qualify for the 22-team Disney World bubble a chance to conduct a minicamp in advance of training camp before the 2020-21 season begins. And if that happens, he expects stars Stephen Curry,
6:04 PM ET Longtime NBA player Brian Shaw has been named the head coach of the new G League team that will include prospects Jalen Green and Isaiah Todd and will debut in the 2020-21 season. NBA G League president Shareef Abdur-Rahim touted Shaw’s experience as both a player (he won three NBA titles in
2:21 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Atlanta Hawks general manager Travis Schlenk said Tuesday morning that the NBA has told the league’s general managers that the 2020-21 NBA schedule could be more condensed in order to allow the league to remain as close as possible to its current schedule format. “Because of this circumstance, I think
1:07 PM ET NEW YORK — The Madison Square Garden Co. has issued a statement, eight days after New York Knicks owner James Dolan sent an email to the staff explaining why the company would not publicly comment on the outrage that followed George Floyd’s death. On Tuesday, the Knicks’ team account tweeted a statement