12:28 PM ET LaVar Ball is “restructuring” Big Baller Brand and plans to relaunch a new website, according to a company spokesman. The company has been effectively defunct for several months in the wake of a financial and legal dispute with his former business partner Alan Foster. The company’s previous website now redirects to a
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7:24 AM ET The NBA is officially back. After Tuesday night’s debut featuring the two L.A. squads, the defending champs and the revamped New Orleans Pelicans, it’s time for the rest of the league to get things started. An offseason full of unpredictable player movement means we’re probably in store for one of the tightest
7:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — Few things in the NBA have been talked about more, and happen less, than Ben Simmons jump shots. Don’t expect that to change just yet. “It’s not that I don’t need to do it,” Simmons said this preseason when asked about his lack of shooting. “I’m confident in
5:53 AM ET Golden State Warriors All-Star Draymond Green said getting suspended last November after an altercation with Kevin Durant caused Green to question his standing with the franchise and his relationship with general manager Bob Myers. “I started to tell myself in my mind, ‘Wow, [Myers is] flipping on me,” Green told ESPN’s Adrian
3:41 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Kawhi Leonard‘s long-awaited Clippers debut began with Lakers fans booing his introduction and interrupting his pregame message thanking the fans in L.A. Once the game tipped off, he got off to a slow start. By the time his first home game at Staples Center was over, though, Leonard made
1:36 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Three months after a heated recruiting battle that pitted Los Angeles’ two NBA teams against one another for the services of Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers and Lakers took the fight to the floor, where talent acquisitions are transformed into stardom. Years of planning, posturing, billboards and flight-tracking finally translated
9:30 PM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — California prosecutors announced Tuesday that they won’t charge Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri for shoving a sheriff’s deputy after the NBA championship-winning game in Oakland last June. The Alameda County district attorney’s office announced the decision Tuesday afternoon, when the Raptors were in Toronto receiving their championship
9:07 PM ET Brian Windhorst Close ESPN Senior Writer ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Dave McMenamin Close ESPN Staff Writer Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for
8:40 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN TORONTO — It was a gray and gloomy morning in Toronto on Tuesday with rain showering the city off and on throughout the day. But as the afternoon hit, the sun started to shine — almost as bright as the Raptors‘ new championship rings. Prior to tip off against the
7:29 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — After agreeing to return to the Philadelphia 76ers as a free agent this summer, Tobias Harris wanted to find a way to make an impact in the city he now will be calling home for the foreseeable future. He wound up creating a unique way to do so,