8:58 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri said Monday night that while his relationship with former coach Dwane Casey has significantly improved but there is “still plenty of work to be done” for him to get to the same place with former franchise icon DeMar DeRozan after he fired Casey and traded
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8:17 PM ET Associated Press Houston Rockets star Russell Westbrook has donated 650 computers to children in need so they can continue learning with schools shut down because of the new coronavirus. Westbrook’s Why Not? Foundation teamed with Comp-U-Dopt and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner’s office of education to provide computers to underprivileged children across the
5:54 PM ET On the four-year anniversary of Kobe Bryant’s surreal NBA sendoff, the Los Angeles Lakers star’s wife, Vanessa Bryant, looked back on her late husband’s retirement, which was cut short when he died in a helicopter crash in January. “My husband worked his ass off for 20 years. Gave it his all,” she
11:04 AM ET Brian Windhorst Close ESPN Senior Writer ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Nick Friedell Close ESPN Staff Writer Nick Friedell is the Chicago Bulls beat reporter for ESPN Chicago. Friedell is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse
3:45 PM ET Jacqueline Cruz-Towns, the mother of Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns, has died due to complications from the coronavirus, her family said Monday. She was 58. “Jackie was many things to many people — a wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend,” the Towns family said in a statement. “The matriarch of
12:19 PM ET The Chicago Bulls fired general manager Gar Forman on Monday after 10 years in the role and 22 years with the team. The move came soon after the Bulls confirmed the hiring of Denver Nuggets general manager Arturas Karnisovas as the franchise’s executive vice president of basketball operations, which ESPN reported last
8:09 AM ET The Chicago Bulls suspected the 1997-98 season would be their last run together. For all the championships and success with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Phil Jackson, there was a feeling among many in the organization that the good times had run their course. That season is captured in “The Last Dance,”
4:28 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Anthony Causi, a highly skilled and exceedingly popular sports photographer for The New York Post who covered the city’s teams for 25 years, died Sunday from the new coronavirus. He was 48. The newspaper reported Causi’s death on its website Sunday night and included an image of
1:07 AM ET As the NBA waits until May to formally reassess its shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, commissioner Adam Silver has encouraged all of the league’s employees to present ideas and concepts for a potential return to play. In that vein, various executives and team medical personnel have been discussing possible protocols to
10:55 PM ET While many of his NBA peers have been unable to get a single basketball shot up since the NBA suspended its season due to the coronavirus pandemic, Zach LaVine has been getting up hundreds, and he proved it Sunday night, shutting out Boston Celtics legend Paul Pierce in the NBA’s first HORSE