12:38 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN CHICAGO — A soulful voice echoed throughout the visitors locker room inside the United Center following the Indiana Pacers‘ 108-102 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Friday. The harmonic notes came from proud Victor Oladipo. Oladipo was initially listed as questionable (knee) for the game, but he returned from a
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10:16 PM ET ESPN News Services Orlando Magic coach Steve Clifford was released from a Minneapolis hospital late Friday night, hours after he fell ill and left his team’s 132-118 win over the Timberwolves. Clifford was diagnosed with dehydration and has been cleared to resume coaching, the Magic said. Clifford left the floor after he
9:54 PM ET ESPN News Services Miami Heat sharpshooter Duncan Robinson broke multiple single-season 3-point records Friday night. And with 19 games left to play in the regular season, he’s on pace to shatter them. Robinson went 8-for-14 from deep against the New Orleans Pelicans, increasing his total 3s made to 233. That’s the most
6:11 PM ET Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns will miss another two weeks as he continues to recover from a broken left wrist, the team announced Friday. The Timberwolves said Towns is continuing to heal and that surgery is not planned at this time. He will be reevaluated in two weeks, the team said. Towns
5:56 PM ET Associated Press The National Basketball Players Association said Friday it has begun looking for a successor to executive director Michele Roberts, the first woman to lead a union for any of the major U.S. pro sports leagues. She is midway through her second and what will be her final four-year term and
5:01 PM ET Free-agent center Joakim Noah has agreed to a deal with the LA Clippers, league sources tell ESPN. Noah, 35, will join the Clippers on a 10-day contract next week, but there’s optimism that he would finish the season with the team barring any setbacks, league sources said. Noah will fill the franchise’s
5:53 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green slammed TNT analyst Charles Barkley for his critical commentary and said the Hall of Famer should be careful what he says. “Barkley should stop before I go take his job, though,” Green said after Friday’s practice. “Because I can do that well, too.
3:52 PM ET Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic will return from a leg injury that has sidelined him for nearly a year on March 15 against the Houston Rockets, he told Yahoo Sports on Friday. Nurkic was in the midst of a career season when he suffered compound fractures to the tibia and fibula
1:48 PM ET Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been fined $500,000 for “public criticism and detrimental conduct regarding NBA officiating,” the league office announced Friday. The NBA also denied the Mavs’ protest of their loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Feb. 22, after which Cuban confronted the referees on the court and criticized them
10:01 AM ET Bookmakers will tell you that Las Vegas, with its proximity to Los Angeles, is a Lakers town — and the betting on the odds to win the NBA championship is proof. More money has been bet on the Lakers to win the title than has been bet on any other team across