2:38 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — Mike Conley, usually as even-keeled as NBA players come, balled up his fists and hollered back at the roaring home crowd as he ran back down the floor after a couple of buckets early in his breakout third quarter Wednesday night. Conley uncharacteristically waved his arms, asking for
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12:14 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry suffered a broken left hand after a hard fall in Wednesday’s game against the Phoenix Suns. General manager Bob Myers told ESPN that Curry will have an MRI and CT scan, and from there, the team will determine if he needs surgery and
1:05 AM ET NEW YORK — Kyrie Irving said Wednesday he is not worried about other people’s perceptions of him. After a 10-point loss to the Indiana Pacers that dropped the Brooklyn Nets to 1-3 on the season, Irving split his postgame news conference between pontificating about self-love and dissecting Brooklyn’s on-court shortcomings. “I don’t
12:35 AM ET ESPN News Services The Houston Rockets and Washington Wizards battled to a final score Wednesday night that looked more like the result of an All-Star Game than an early season matchup, combining to score 317 points, the most in an NBA game decided by a single point. The Rockets needed every one
12:32 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Before his Celtics held their first shootaround of the season last week in Philadelphia, Brad Stevens was asked how he felt about the state of his remade roster. “This time of year, it is exciting. It’s fun,” Stevens said. “But, in a lot of ways, it’s information-gathering. We’re
11:40 PM ET While the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals were staging an epic World Series Game 7 in Houston, the Houston Rockets and Washington Wizards were playing one of the most incredible NBA games in recent memory, packed with enough historic milestones to fill a record book. In the end, James Harden‘s 59 points
9:16 PM ET NEW YORK — Knicks guard Reggie Bullock took to Instagram on Wednesday afternoon to share a photo mourning the loss of his sister Keiosha Moore. Moore, who sustained a fatal bullet wound to the chest, was one of nine people shot in Baltimore on Monday, according to a police spokesman. Three of
9:00 PM ET The Philadelphia 76ers‘ Joel Embiid and Minnesota Timberwolves‘ Karl-Anthony Towns were ejected for fighting in the third quarter of Wednesday night’s game in Philadelphia. The two shoved each other at Minnesota’s end of the floor while the 76ers pushed the ball upcourt, with Towns throwing a punch that missed and putting Embiid
4:40 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Retired Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki joined a few hundred people Wednesday at a ceremony to rename a city street as Nowitzki Way in his honor. The big German accepted the gesture with characteristic humor and humility. “It’s sort of surreal,” he said. “From my first year, the
3:28 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors big man Willie Cauley-Stein and veteran swingman Alec Burks will make their respective season debuts on Wednesday night against the Phoenix Suns. Cauley-Stein, who signed with the team over the summer, missed all of training camp and the first three regular-season games after injuring his left