Month: January 2020

1:34 AM ET BOSTON — Following the Los Angeles Lakers‘ worst loss of the season and one of the worst defeats in the history of their rivalry with the Boston Celtics, LeBron James saw no use in sugarcoating it. “I mean, listen, it was just a good, old-fashioned butt whooping,” James said after L.A.’s 139-107

1:35 AM ET ESPN News Services PORTLAND, Ore. — Damian Lillard set a franchise record with 61 points, including a career-best 11 3-pointers, and the short-handed Portland Trail Blazers outlasted the equally depleted Golden State Warriors 129-124 in overtime Monday night. Lillard’s previous career high was 60 points earlier this season against Brooklyn. He now

2:31 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — For 60 seconds on Monday night, it looked like the Boston Celtics‘ nightmarish start to 2020 would continue unabated against the Los Angeles Lakers. The game opened with LeBron James‘ hitting JaVale McGee on an alley-oop from half court, followed by an ugly Jayson Tatum drive. Then came

12:30 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — The Celtics were already well on their way to a victory over the Los Angeles Lakers when Jaylen Brown was streaking toward the basket early in the third quarter Monday night. But when he rose up and slammed the ball through the hoop with two hands over LeBron

7:08 AM ET Being a superteam can be hard. This is a lesson that has been passed on from the 2010-11 Miami Heat to the 2012-13 Los Angeles Lakers to the 2014-15 Cleveland Cavaliers — and one that the LA Clippers are grinding through this season. Their 30-13 record heading into Tuesday’s game at the

11:19 PM ET Former Saint Joseph‘s coach Phil Martelli said he is working to get help for Delonte West, one of his former players, after a video appearing to show the former NBA guard rambling while in handcuffs went viral on social media Monday. Martelli, who coached West and Jameer Nelson for three seasons at

10:36 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN MEMPHIS — The New Orleans Pelicans sure gave Zion Williamson something to look forward to. Two days before Williamson is expected to make his regular-season NBA debut, the Pelicans hit a franchise-record 21 3-pointers on their way to a 126-116 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies. New Orleans started the season

10:30 PM ET HOUSTON — There were no puns intended with the stormy metaphors used by some members of the Houston Rockets after their fourth-quarter collapse in a 112-107 loss Monday to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Forward Danuel House Jr. described it as feeling like the Rockets were in a “dark cloud” after their fourth