3:22 PM ET Atlanta’s Lloyd Pierce, a coach for one of eight teams outside the 22-team plan that reportedly has growing support for the NBA’s restart in Orlando, Florida, says the exclusion would be damaging for his Hawks. Pierce, in an interview on ESPN’s The Jump that aired Tuesday, insisted game competition continues to be
Month: June 2020
3:01 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens said he sat down over the weekend and wrote a letter to his entire team following protests across the country after the death of George Floyd last week. “I wrote a letter to our guys this weekend and it took me awhile to put down
6:52 PM ET ESPN News Services Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta told CNBC in an interview Tuesday that he “loves” the protests happening in cities across the United States and that he encourages all of his employees to speak up about issues such as racial injustice. Fertitta also said he was disappointed that his team
5:32 PM ET As the NBA models a 22-team format for the season’s proposed resumption beginning July 31 in Orlando, a timeline shared with teams as a last possible date for a Finals Game 7 lands on Oct. 12, sources told ESPN. Commissioner Adam Silver is expected to have a proposal to take to a
6:05 PM ET Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts pushed back on the perception that baseball teams are cash cows, telling ESPN on Tuesday that yearly revenues are mostly put right back into the team. “Here’s something I hope baseball fans understand,” Ricketts told ESPN. “Most baseball owners don’t take money out of their team. They
5:34 PM ET A driver testing positive for coronavirus would not automatically see a race cancelled when Formula One gets back under way next month, the sport’s CEO Chase Carey has said. 1 Related On Tuesday, Formula One announced plans to kick off its new season on July 5 in Austria as the start of
4:55 PM ET The NFL has decide that teams must hold training camps this summer at their main practice facilities due to the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. The NFL plans to announce that plan, along with a tentative start to camps in late July. Among teams that would have held camp away
4:25 PM ET When Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson saw that teammate Lucas Giolito posted a message supporting the Black Lives Matter movement late last week — and in doing so became one of the first white major league players to speak publicly about the death of George Floyd — he didn’t even blink
Wes Unseld, who died Tuesday at the age of 74, spent more than three decades in the NBA as a player, coach and executive. He helped lead the then-Washington Bullets to their only NBA championship in 1978, earning Finals MVP honors. He, along with Wilt Chamberlain, is one of two players to win the league’s
4:11 PM ET Six-time Formula One motor racing world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Tuesday he felt “completely overcome with rage” as he urged people to speak out against racism and stand up for justice. The Briton had slammed his sport on Sunday for its silence over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black