12:52 PM ET Nine more NBA players tested positive for the coronavirus last week, the league announced Thursday. The nine positive tests found between June 24-29 brings the overall total to 25 players out of a pool of 351 that have been tested since June 23. Sixteen players tested positive last week. The NBA also
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10:19 AM ET Kobe Bryant has been announced as a cover athlete for NBA 2K21. 8️⃣ Relentless. Driven. A true competitor. We celebrate Kobe Bryant as our Cover Athlete for the Current Gen Mamba Forever Edition 🐍 #NBA2K21 pic.twitter.com/1wfH4kTPPN — NBA 2K21 (@NBA2K) July 2, 2020 The late Los Angeles Lakers star will grace the
8:24 AM ET The NBA season is on hold for the time being and will have a unique look when and if play resumes in the bubble at Disney World in late July. So while we’re waiting things out, we thought now would be a good time to look into each team’s worst season against
7:31 AM ET WHEN FRANK VOGEL has chatted with the Los Angeles Lakers ahead of traveling to the NBA’s campus at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida, next week, the conversation has mostly been informational. Players want clarity about how restrictive the so-called bubble will be — for instance, under what
4:59 PM ET As teams prepare to depart for Florida in the next week, entering into the Orlando campus “bubble” environment, Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard expressed serious doubt that all the protocols and rules will be strictly followed by players. “My confidence ain’t great,” Lillard said with a laugh Wednesday. “My confidence ain’t
2:17 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Lou Williams is expected to join the LA Clippers and play in the NBA’s restart, according to head coach Doc Rivers. The reigning Sixth Man of the Year had said that he was “50-50” on whether he would play in the NBA’s restart because he and some other players
7:53 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Lakers coach Frank Vogel says the team will not seek a replacement player for Dwight Howard for the Orlando restart. And, according to Vogel, the team will not ask the replacement player that it did add, JR Smith, to play like the player he replaced, Avery Bradley. Speaking on
5:59 PM ET Houston Rockets forward Thabo Sefolosha has opted out of the season’s restart in Orlando, sources tell ESPN. The Rockets are eligible to sign a replacement for the team’s roster. Sefolosha, 36, had played in 41 games this season, averaging 10 minutes and 2.2 points Veteran forwards Jeff Green and DeMarre Carroll —
8:56 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN In the upcoming August and November elections, Michigan residents will be able to use the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center in Detroit as a voting “Satellite Center” to register and vote on site. Both the August 4 and November 3 elections will be company-wide paid days off to staff
4:12 PM ET The NBA office has assured the league’s coaches’ association that “age alone” will not be enough to prevent a coach from going to the Walt Disney World Resort for the restart of the season. Individuals at high risk for serious coronavirus complications will not go, but simply being older, without other risks,