6:52 PM ET ESPN News Services Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta told CNBC in an interview Tuesday that he “loves” the protests happening in cities across the United States and that he encourages all of his employees to speak up about issues such as racial injustice. Fertitta also said he was disappointed that his team
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3:01 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens said he sat down over the weekend and wrote a letter to his entire team following protests across the country after the death of George Floyd last week. “I wrote a letter to our guys this weekend and it took me awhile to put down
3:22 PM ET Atlanta’s Lloyd Pierce, a coach for one of eight teams outside the 22-team plan that reportedly has growing support for the NBA’s restart in Orlando, Florida, says the exclusion would be damaging for his Hawks. Pierce, in an interview on ESPN’s The Jump that aired Tuesday, insisted game competition continues to be
Wes Unseld, who died Tuesday at the age of 74, spent more than three decades in the NBA as a player, coach and executive. He helped lead the then-Washington Bullets to their only NBA championship in 1978, earning Finals MVP honors. He, along with Wilt Chamberlain, is one of two players to win the league’s
6:55 AM ET The NBA’s return-to-play plan, which includes a likely 22-team field competing in Orlando, Florida, in regular-season games and a play-in tournament to decide postseason berths, is expected to pass in a Thursday board of governors vote. The Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic were holding the No. 8 seeds in their respective conferences
10:01 AM ET ESPN News Services Former Washington Bullets player and coach Wes Unseld died Tuesday morning, according to his family. He was 74. The family said in a statement that Unseld had lengthy health issues, most recently with pneumonia. “He was the rock of our family — an extremely devoted patriarch who reveled in
10:51 AM ET A Florida state court judge on Tuesday denied New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson‘s request to stay discovery into whether he was eligible under NCAA rules when he played one season at Duke in 2018-19. Florida 11th Circuit Court Judge David Miller ruled that Williamson will be required to answer interrogatories and
8:58 PM ET NEW YORK — An internal email was sent out to Madison Square Garden employees on Monday addressing the lack of a public statement regarding the outrage following the death of George Floyd. “We know that some of you have asked about whether our company is going to make a public statement,” the
9:06 PM ET Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. — NBA All-Star Trae Young spoke at a peaceful protest of racial injustice and police brutality in his hometown on Monday. Young, the former University of Oklahoma star who now plays for the Atlanta Hawks, briefly addressed several hundred people at Andrews Park about the deaths of George
1:30 PM ET Near the end of the NBA’s board of governors call on Friday, Oklahoma City Thunder owner Clay Bennett delivered an impassioned soliloquy on why the league and owners needed to consider the competitive and financial plights of smaller-market teams that could be left out of the season’s summer resumption in Orlando, Florida