11:24 AM ET Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker will replace the injured Damian Lillard in this weekend’s NBA All-Star Game and 3-point contest. The NBA named Booker as Lillard’s replacement Thursday, one day after the Portland Trail Blazers star suffered a right groin strain. Booker, 23, will make his first career All-Star appearance in his
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Feb 14, 2016 TORONTO– Zach LaVine and Aaron Gordon taught us that the solution to the NBA’s slam dunk contest was simply staging a true slam dunk contest, a spirited competition that highlights the sport’s ultimate expression of athleticism. By testing their limits and pushing each other, drawing perfect score after perfect score from the
Zach LaVine Special Chicago Homecoming Variant! LaVine put on two of the best performances in dunk contest history in winning back-to-back titles, but in the three years since, he’s become a far more well-rounded player. Just last season, he handed out a career best 4.5 assists per game, and earlier this season, he made 13
8:37 AM ET All-Star Weekend 2020 is nearly here. Which stars are taking home the hardware? Will Aaron Gordon finally break through for his first dunk contest title, or will Dwight Howard turn back the clock and channel his inner Superman? Will Giannis Antetokounmpo exact his revenge on LeBron James and captain the winning squad
9:00 AM ET TOWARD THE END of Bam Adebayo‘s freshman year at Northside High School in tiny Pinetown in eastern North Carolina, two teachers, a coach, and a mother gathered in the coach’s classroom to discuss how they would wrap their arms around the mother’s son — a raw basketball prodigy already bordering on 6-foot-8.
7:24 AM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Jennifer Hudson is coming to the All-Star Game to pay tribute to Kobe Bryant with her voice. The NBA has released a list of entertainers headed to All-Star Weekend, the group headlined by Hudson — the two-time Grammy winner and Oscar winner — who, just before Sunday night’s
3:26 AM ET DENVER — The Los Angeles Lakers increased their stranglehold on the Western Conference’s No. 1 spot with an impressive road win against the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday, but LeBron James claims seeding isn’t a topic of conversation for L.A. “We don’t talk about it,” James said after the Lakers’ 120-116 overtime win
1:25 AM ET DALLAS — All-Star point guard Luka Doncic displayed no signs of rust in his return after missing seven games due to a sprained right ankle. Nor did he disrupt the rhythm Kristaps Porzingis established during Doncic’s absence. Doncic had 33 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists in the Dallas Mavericks‘ 130-111 victory
6:45 PM ET ESPN News Services INDIANAPOLIS — Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo missed his second straight game Wednesday, a 118-111 loss to the Pacers, just days after his girlfriend gave birth to the couple’s first child. The Pacers took advantage, utilizing a 10-0 fourth-quarter run to snap a six-game losing streak. T.J. Warren had
12:33 AM ET NEW YORK — In order for his team to beat the Toronto Raptors, who were riding a formidable winning streak, Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said that Brooklyn’s “effort and compete level has got to be two levels higher” than normal. “We have to pitch close to a perfect game to beat this