10:26 PM ET Undrafted point guard Kendrick Nunn has begun his Miami Heat career on a record pace, scoring more points in his first five games than anyone but Kevin Durant and Jerry Stackhouse in the last 25 years. His 28 point performance against the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday night pushed his points total to
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6:27 PM ET The 76ers‘ Joel Embiid and the Timberwolves‘ Karl-Anthony Towns each received a two-game suspension for their roles in an altercation in their game in Philadelphia Wednesday night. The suspensions, announced Thursday by league vice president Kiki Vandeweghe, also noted the players’ “continued escalation following the incident.” Embiid and Towns became tangled in
5:01 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN CHICAGO — Exactly one year after his career-best, 50-point Halloween explosion in Minnesota, former Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose entered the United Center for Thursday’s practice as a member of the Detroit Pistons. Before hitting the court, he made time to visit the media room for a quick chat with
5:02 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Barring any setbacks, Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma will make his season debut on Friday against the Dallas Mavericks. After participating on Wednesday in a practice with the South Bay Lakers, the Lakers’ G-League affiliate, Kuzma went through his first practice with his Lakers teammates on Thursday
2:49 PM ET Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner is listed as week-to-week after spraining his right ankle Wednesday, the team announced. The injury occurred in the first quarter of Indiana’s 118-108 road win against the Brooklyn Nets. The team’s 2015 first-round draft pick is averaging 14.8 points and 6.8 rebounds in four games this season.
Oct 27, 2019 HE TRAINED HIMSELF to be gracious, even though no one afforded him the same consideration. When kids in Senegal taunted him simply because he towered above them, he refused to retaliate, refused to dissolve into tears, refused to scamper home and tattle to his mother, even though he was just an 8-year-old
11:51 AM ET NEW YORK — Kevin Durant said his altercation with Draymond Green last November was one of many factors that ultimately led him to leave the Golden State Warriors for the Brooklyn Nets in free agency. “I wish that wouldn’t have happened,” Durant said on Thursday. Durant’s comments came during a wide-ranging interview
9:19 AM ET As the NBA’s investigation into the altercation between Joel Embiid and Karl-Anthony Towns begins, the Minnesota Timberwolves are rejecting the game officials’ designation of Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons as a “peacemaker” in the fracas, league sources tell ESPN. Referee Mark Ayotte told a pool reporter Wednesday night that Simmons was “deemed
7:47 AM ET Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner is expected to miss Friday’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers because of a sprained right ankle. Turner, 23, suffered the injury in the first quarter of Wednesday’s victory over the Nets in Brooklyn and did not return to the contest. The Pacers have not provided a specific
3:58 AM ET The idea of the Golden State Warriors tanking was unfathomable in June. They might have lost Klay Thompson to a knee injury and Kevin Durant to a ruptured Achilles tendon, but they were still the Warriors. Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston, Steve Kerr, Bob Myers. The championship DNA was