8:16 PM ET Kentucky star Oscar Tshiebwe declared for the NBA draft on Friday, but the 2022 Wooden Award winner also left open the option to return to Lexington for one more season. The senior big man now has until May 31 to withdraw his name from the draft if he chooses to go back
3:15 PM ET UConn sophomore Jordan Hawkins will enter the 2023 NBA draft and forgo his remaining college eligibility, he told Malika Andrews on ESPN’s “NBA Today” on Friday. “Hearing my name called on draft night will be a blessing,” Hawkins said. “I worked so hard for this, me and my dad, we’ve been through
9:05 PM ET ESPN News Services BOSTON — Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown said he expects to be ready to go in time for the start of the playoffs after cutting a finger on his shooting hand. Brown told reporters Friday night before a game against Toronto that he cut his right hand picking up
1:04 PM ET DALLAS – All-Star guard Kyrie Irving and four key Dallas Mavericks role players will sit out Friday night’s home game against the Chicago Bulls, a game the Mavericks must win to avoid being eliminated from the play-in scenario. The Mavs announced late Friday morning that Irving (right foot injury recovery), shooting guard
2:42 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN METAIRIE, La. — New Orleans Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin said that Zion Williamson will not practice with the team on Saturday and would not play in any play-in tournament games next week if the Pelicans are still in the play-in. Griffin, speaking to local media
5:13 PM ET Lens are closing in on PSG at the top of Ligue 1 ahead of the teams’ showdown next weekend. SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images Clinical Lens beat Strasbourg 2-1 to provisionally cut Paris Saint-Germain‘s once double-digit lead at the top of the Ligue 11 table to three points on Friday and open up
3:53 PM ET Napoli moved three points closer to the Serie A title with their win over Leece. Donato Fasano/Getty Images Napoli took another step closer to ending their 33-year wait to win the Serie A title after they came away from Lecce with a 2-1 win on Friday thanks to a bizarre own goal from
6:54 PM ET Associated Press Ireland coach Vera Pauw talks with Sinead Farrelly during a training session ahead of the match against the USWNT. Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images The coach of the Irish women’s national team called allegations of weight shaming during her time as a coach in the National Women’s Soccer League “absolutely ridiculous
7:45 PM ET U.S. women’s national team manager Vlatko Andonovski said he’s “positive” that he won’t have his 23-player World Cup roster decided after two upcoming games against Ireland. The matches against Ireland — on Saturday in Austin, Texas, and again three days later in St. Louis — mark the final matches the U.S. will
4:56 PM ET Vincent Kompany has won promotion to the Premier League with Burnley in his first season as manager at the club. Alex Dodd – CameraSport via Getty Images Burnley secured an immediate return to the Premier League as they earned automatic promotion with a 2-1 victory against Middlesbrough on Friday. Vincent Kompany’s side sealed