12:10 AM ET Washington Wizards center Daniel Gafford has agreed to a three-year, $40 million contract extension, his agent, Raymond Brothers of ROC Nation Sports, told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Gafford, 23, was acquired in a trade last season with the Chicago Bulls as a way to help shore up Washington’s frontcourt rotation after Thomas Bryant‘s
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6:22 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Monday that he would have “preferred” that the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association come to an agreement on a vaccine mandate, in part to avoid it becoming an “adversarial” issue for the league’s players, as it has for Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving.
7:09 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — LeBron James does not buy that monitoring his minutes will have any effect on his health as the Los Angeles Lakers are about to start their new season this week. “I don’t play the game thinking about injuries,” James said Monday, ahead of L.A.’s regular-season opener against the
5:47 PM ET Atlanta Hawks guard Kevin Huerter has agreed to a four-year, $65 million rookie contract extension, his agents, Mark Bartelstein and Andy Shiffman of Priority Sports, told ESPN on Monday. Huerter, 23, is the latest core member of a young Hawks roster to secure a contract extension. “It was important to our group
5:31 PM ET Milwaukee Bucks guard Grayson Allen has agreed to a two-year, $20 million rookie extension, his agent Mitch Nathan of CAA Basketball, told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Monday. The Bucks acquired Allen from the Memphis Grizzlies in a trade this summer. The deal happened ahead of the 6 p.m. ET deadline for members
9:24 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County is seeking to compel psychiatric evaluations for Kobe Bryant’s widow and others to determine if they truly suffered emotional distress after first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the basketball star, his teenage daughter
3:33 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com There are plenty of murals in the Los Angeles area celebrating Los Angeles Lakers players past and present. That list now includes Russell Westbrook, who was traded to the Lakers in August. One recent piece of art is not far from where Westbrook started his hoops career. Westbrook was born
3:35 PM ET Talks between the Phoenix Suns and Deandre Ayton on an extension to his rookie contract have ended without a deal, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Monday. Ayton expected a maximum contract and owner Robert Sarver hasn’t offered it yet for the 2018 No. 1 overall pick. Ayton, a key part of
3:30 PM ET Indiana Pacers guard Malcolm Brogdon has agreed to an additional two-year, $45 million extension — guaranteeing him $89.3 million over the next four years — his agent Austin Brown of CAA Sports told ESPN on Monday. Brogdon’s extension begins with the 2023-2024 season and raises his annual salary to $22.5 million in
3:47 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN CAMDEN, N.J. — Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers said he’s going to “wait and see and watch” Ben Simmons to decide whether he will play in the season opener Wednesday in New Orleans against the Pelicans. “Just learning the new stuff, conditioning, timing, rhythm,” Rivers said, when asked what specifically