Month: August 2020

12:53 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Michele Roberts released a joint statement Friday announcing that the NBA playoffs will resume Saturday, and that the NBA and its players will work together on several initiatives to promote voting access and combat
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6:05 PM ET Dallas Mavericks big man Kristaps Porzingis has been ruled out for the remainder of the first-round playoff series against the LA Clippers due to a lateral meniscus tear in his right knee, the team announced Friday evening. The team’s statement said that “further treatment options are being explored at this time” and
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5:23 PM ET Houston-area high school stars and ESPN 300 prospects Bobby Taylor and Hunter Washington announced that they will be following in the examples of professional athletes and sitting out games in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Taylor and Hunter both play for Katy High School and said
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4:12 PM ET Before the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced Friday that the postseason will resume with players and the league working collectively toward social justice goals, we reached out to more than a dozen leaders to ask how they would advise NBA players to use their influence to translate political passions
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4:35 PM ET Associated Press South African golfer Justin Walters shot 1-under 71 to stay in the lead after the second round of the U.K. Championship on the European Tour on Friday. On a rainy day at The Belfry, Walters was unable to follow up his 64 in the opening round and saw his lead
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4:54 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians continued a back-and-forth with DeMaurice Smith on Friday after the NFLPA executive director said Arians was “woefully misinformed about the history of protest.” After George Floyd was killed earlier this summer, Arians recalled the race riots in York, Pennsylvania, in 1968 and 1969,
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4:37 PM ET Associated Press Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt has canceled practice for the Volunteers after what he called “a few more positive tests.” The Volunteers were scheduled to practice Friday. Pruitt had adjusted the schedule for Saturday to allow his players to take part in an on-campus march against racism. Pruitt says he decided
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