1:02 PM ET San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said the “country is in trouble” and he’s “embarrassed as a white person” to know that George Floyd could die in such a horrific way as a police officer with a knee on Floyd’s neck went about his job in such a “nonchalant … casual” manner.
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6:22 AM ET NBA Insiders The NBA board of governors voted in favor of a 22-team return-to-play proposal on Thursday and the NBPA gave its approval on Friday, setting the resumption of the season in motion. The season will conclude with eight regular-season games per team in Orlando, Florida, with the possibility of a playoff
11:52 PM ET Fearful of significant setbacks in the development of young players over months of inactivity, several teams left out of this season’s regular-season resumption in Orlando have proposed ideas for regional mini-summer leagues, training camps and OTA’s, sources tell ESPN. As the rest of the NBA prepares to re-start the 2019-2020 season with
9:36 PM ET Marc J. Spears Kevin Durant told ESPN’s The Undefeated on Friday that he will not debut for the Brooklyn Nets during the 2019-20 NBA season after it resumes next month. Durant has not played since he tore his Achilles tendon on June 11 during Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals while
2:36 PM ET Players participating in a 10-team, 36-game German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) tournament slated to start in Munich on Saturday are being asked to wear chips monitoring their movements, league commissioner Stefan Holz told ESPN. The BBL has been suspended since March 8. The league is isolating players, coaches, referees and other staff during
5:22 PM ET National Basketball Players Association representatives approved the NBA’s 22-team format to complete the 2019-2020 season, the NBPA announced Friday. The NBA and NBPA will work through a number of details in the next week on the season’s resumption at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, but sides are ready to move
6:10 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN Amid the global outpouring of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand are pledging $100 million over the next 10 years to nationwide organizations “dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education.” “Black lives matter. This isn’t a controversial statement,” read
6:41 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Summer has officially begun for the Chicago Bulls and seven other NBA teams not invited to Orlando to finish out the rest of the 2019-20 regular season. “It sucks. You’ve got to understand it. It’s a weird time, especially with everything that’s going on right now, but it’s upsetting too,”
7:04 PM ET With a core that has been intact longer than most of their West rivals to go with a fitter and more “athletic” Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray says the Denver Nuggets are ready to show that they can emerge from Orlando with an NBA championship. “We know we can go win the title,”
11:34 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NBA commissioner Adam Silver said there is a chance that older NBA head coaches won’t be able to be on the bench when the league resumes play on July 31 at the Walt Disney World Resort. “I think one of the things we know, we’ve learned a lot about the