11:52 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN INDIANAPOLIS — The pain felt familiar to New Orleans Pelicans forward Larry Nance Jr. With 1:45 left in the third quarter in Monday’s 129-122 loss to the Indiana Pacers, Nance took a step forward to try to get the rebound after Pacers center Myles Turner blocked a Zion Williamson dunk
Month: November 2022
9:55 PM ET Dwight Howard’s next basketball home will be overseas. The eight-time All-Star big man announced Monday night that he has signed to play with the Taoyuan Leopards, a professional team in Taiwan. “I am so so excited, and I can’t wait to touch down in Taiwan and start playing,” Howard said as part
9:44 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — Phoenix Suns star Chris Paul left in the second quarter of Monday night’s 100-88 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers with right heel soreness. Paul tried to go around a screen by 76ers big man Paul Reed with 6 minutes, 27 seconds to go in the quarter, and immediately
3:12 AM ET LOS ANGELES — After scoring while being fouled to give the LA Clippers an improbable lead with 37 seconds left to play against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Paul George let out a scream toward the home crowd. George’s three-point play completed a surprising 17-1 run by the Clippers that erased a 13-point deficit
3:51 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — An undermanned Los Angeles Lakers team dropped to 2-8 on the season with a 139-116 loss to the Utah Jazz on Monday. It was their third straight loss, all by 14 points or more. And in each of those losses, L.A. looked progressively ineffective on the defensive end
3:35 AM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry had never been happier about a win in the 11th game of the regular season than he was about the Golden State Warriors‘ 116-113 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Monday night. Coming off a five-game losing streak, the Warriors considered this to be as
Cape Town will host the opening match of the SA20 between MI Cape Town and Paarl Royals, with Johannesburg’s Wanderers Stadium due to host the final of the inaugural season of the 33-match tournament. The SA20 will run from January 10 to February 11, 2023, although it will be halted between January 25 and February
4:00 AM ET The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is missing some big teams (Italy, Egypt, Nigeria, Colombia) and some big players (Mohamed Salah, Erling Haaland, Victor Osimhen) but that’s what makes this tournament the best in sports. Brazil are looking to win their first World Cup since 2002, while England, Argentina and Germany are
3:45 AM ET Seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was made an honorary citizen of Brazil on Monday by the country’s lower house of Congress and dedicated it to his boyhood idol, the late Brazilian triple world champion Ayrton Senna. “I feel like now I’m one of you,” the Mercedes driver said in a
9:52 PM ET ESPN News Services The Los Angeles Angels are not trading two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani this offseason, general manager Perry Minasian told a group of reporters Monday. Ohtani agreed last month to a one-year, $30 million deal with the Angels for the 2023 season, his final year before free agency, but speculation had