5:24 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN New York Knicks All-Star forward Julius Randle will be reevaluated in two weeks for a sprained ankle suffered in Wednesday night’s win over the Miami Heat, effectively ruling him out for the remainder of the regular season. The NBA playoffs will begin two weeks from Saturday. Randle, 28, suffered the
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9:44 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN DENVER — Nikola Jokic will miss Thursday night’s game with right calf tightness, the Denver Nuggets announced. Jokic was added to the injury report Wednesday afternoon after playing against the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday. It will be just the ninth game Jokic has missed this season. Denver hosts the New
2:55 PM ET Alabama freshman forward Brandon Miller, the No. 3 prospect in ESPN’s latest mock draft, is entering the 2023 NBA draft, he told ESPN on Thursday. Miller, a 6-foot-9 All-American considered to be the top college prospect in the draft class, has emerged shoulder-to-shoulder with G League Ignite guard Scoot Henderson to become
10:00 AM ET Nick DePaulaESPN Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has signed a new long-term extension with Under Armour that will extend beyond his playing days and into his retirement. While exact terms were not disclosed, the new agreement could be one of the richest-ever endorsement deals in sports once annual base pay, stock
7:20 AM ET The NBA’s play-in tournament adds a fascinating wrinkle to the end of the 2022-23 regular season and the start of the postseason. Teams were already less incentivized to tank games down the stretch because of the flattened lottery odds instituted in 2019. Now that the top 10 teams in the standings will
7:30 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN Will this NBA season feature one of the closest Most Valuable Player votes in league history? If ESPN’s final MVP straw poll of 2022-23 is any indication, buckle up, as Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has overtaken Denver Nuggets center and two-time reigning MVP Nikola Jokic. By two points. Not
1:57 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — After the Dallas Mavericks lost for the 14th time in 20 games since Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic took the court as teammates, Irving said this was far from where he expected the team to be when he arrived in Dallas almost two months ago. Irving, speaking after
1:03 AM ET CHICAGO — The Los Angeles Lakers won their 38th game of the season on Wednesday using their 38th starting lineup, and this one had the team talking about how far it can take them. “I think we’ve got everything we need. It’s just about going out and applying it,” said Anthony Davis
7:28 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — After returning to the lineup from a four-game absence due to left Achilles soreness, Philadelphia 76ers star James Harden said he’s been dealing with the issue for “some months.” “I don’t know where it came from. It’s been bothering me for some months, I would say,” Harden said
12:52 AM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Kevin Durant‘s a 13-time All-Star, a two-time NBA champion, a four-time league leader in scoring and has done just about everything else a player can do in the game of basketball. But even he can get a little nervous on a night like Wednesday. Devin Booker scored 29