Month: February 2021

9:06 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid sat out of Monday night’s game against the league-leading Utah Jazz with back tightness. Embiid had been listed as questionable for Monday’s game during the day, but coach Doc Rivers said he was unaware of any issues with his superstar big man during his pregame

12:55 AM ET For John Wall, returning to Washington D.C. for the first time since the Wizards traded him to the Houston Rockets brought with it the standard emotions, but it also brought something else: closure. “I think I spoke on it with The Athletic what I wanted to get off my chest and let

2:06 AM ET When James Harden was traded to the Brooklyn Nets in mid-January, the offensive standard he had in mind was Monday night’s 136-125 win over the Sacramento Kings. “This was the vision right here — this game itself,” Harden said. “From top to bottom, no matter when your number is called, you’ve got

2:21 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green devoted almost the entirety of his postgame news conference Monday night to calling out the NBA’s treatment of its players, while citing various examples of double standards around the league. Green’s unprompted, three-minute tirade came on the heels of the Cleveland Cavaliers —

1:53 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN Winston Churchill once said of Russia, “It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” If there is an NBA equivalent to that quote, it is Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons. There might not be a more confounding player in the NBA than Simmons. He has the size

10:56 PM ET The New York Knicks won once again Monday night, getting a third straight win by beating the Atlanta Hawks behind 44 points from Julius Randle. By scoring more than 40 points, Randle broke a streak of 183 games where the Knicks did not have a 40-point scorer. That was the longest active