1:43 PM ET Mechelle VoepelESPN.com Close Mechelle Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Duke has hired former Tennessee and WNBA guard Kara Lawson as its women’s basketball coach, the school announced Saturday. Lawson, 39,
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7:44 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN For New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson, the time he spent in quarantine made him feel like a kid. In order to get ready for the NBA season, Williamson worked out with his stepfather Lee Anderson when he wasn’t rehabbing with Pelicans staffers. It’s that time that Williamson cherished in
6:41 PM ET As NBA teams get situated in the Orlando bubble, one question that has persisted since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is not only what happens if a player tests positive for the virus but also what lingering effects might follow. “There are unknown effects it has on lung capacity, unknown effects
8:21 PM ET Doc Rivers said Kawhi Leonard is expected to join the LA Clippers on Fright night in Florida. “Kawhi is on his way,” the Clippers coach said in a Zoom call with reporters on Friday afternoon before practice. “Should arrive sometime this evening.” Leonard did not travel with the Clippers on their team
9:17 PM ET As the Oklahoma City Thunder held their first practice in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, they had a familiar face joining them on the floor for the first time in almost a year: guard Andre Roberson. It’s been two and a half years since Roberson has played in an actual game, but he
5:18 PM ET Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone said he hopes to have star center Nikola Jokic back with the team in the next few days. Jokic is healthy and retested negative, according to a source, but he did not travel with the Nuggets on their team flight to Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday due to
6:02 PM ET ESPN News Services Duke is in talks with Boston Celtics assistant coach and former WNBA All-Star Kara Lawson to take over as coach of its women’s basketball program, a source told ESPN on Friday. The 39-year-old Lawson has become the leading candidate to replace Joanne P. McCallie, who announced last week she
2:33 PM ET U.S. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, in a letter to NBA commissioner Adam Silver, on Friday wrote that the league’s policy on social injustice messages “appears to stop at the edge of your corporate sponsors’ sensibilities,” especially when it came to matters involving China and support of the United States military and
6:45 AM ET Brian Windhorst Close ESPN Senior Writer ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Tim Bontemps Over the past three months, the NBA’s league office has exhausted itself in stitching together a comprehensive plan to conclude the 2019-20 season. In the front offices of the
8:06 PM ET NBA teams have begun arriving to the bubble as training camps tip off ahead of the league’s restart, which is slated for July 30 inside Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. While not all 22 teams have touched down in Orlando, many are already sharing the experiences of