1:01 AM ET ESPN News Services The NBA Cares event in Shanghai involving the Los Angeles Lakers was canceled on Wednesday just hours before it was scheduled to begin, adding to the fallout from a recent tweet by Rockets GM Daryl Morey that showed support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong. The NBA did not
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12:26 AM ET TULSA — Chris Paul, the president of the NBA’s players association, said he isn’t very well informed about the league’s growing friction with its business partners in China in part because of his focus on the Oklahoma City Thunder‘s training camp. “I don’t know but so much about it right now,” Paul
8:48 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons hit the first 3-pointer of his NBA career in a preseason game against the Guangzhou Long-Lions on Tuesday night. The 6-foot-10 point guard pulled up from deep beyond the arc seconds before halftime with the Sixers up big. He was treated to rapturous applause by the home
8:45 PM ET Marc J. Spears Attorneys for Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown have asked a federal judge to reject a $400,000 settlement offer of judgment from the city of Milwaukee. “Mr. Brown deserves more than a mere apology,” his lawyer, Mark Thomsen, told ESPN’s The Undefeated. “He, as any human being, citizen of the
Oct 16, 2019 HE IS PREPARING to launch his 20,361st field goal attempt, but he has no idea it might well be his last. It’s Nov. 8, 2018, and with 8:54 remaining in the fourth quarter, his Houston Rockets down 86-64 to the Oklahoma City Thunder, Carmelo Anthony had secured an offensive rebound. Two seconds
7:17 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Gregg Popovich, the NBA’s longest-tenured coach, lauded NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday for his stance supporting freedom of speech amid the ongoing rift with China. Popovich, speaking before his San Antonio Spurs faced the Miami Heat in a preseason game, said he recognized that Silver is in
11:46 AM ET Kevin Durant said Tuesday that the New York Knicks can’t rely on their “brand” to land the best players, many of whom don’t even remember the franchise being good. “I think a lot of fans look at the Knicks as a brand and expect these younger players in their lifetime don’t remember
Oct 7, 2019 OKLAHOMA CITY — The hand was raised for the first question on OKC’s first media day without Russell Westbrook. At the podium on Sept. 30 was Chris Paul, and as the microphone landed in a reporter’s hand and he began to identify himself, Paul interrupted. “Berry Tramel,” Paul said with a smile.
9:55 AM ET ESPN News Services Russell Westbrook tallied 13 points in 21 minutes in his first game action as a member of the Houston Rockets, a 134-129 loss to the Toronto Raptors in Tokyo. “It wasn’t bad,” said Westbrook, the longtime Oklahoma City star and former MVP now in his first season with Houston.
6:55 AM ET ESPN News Services TOKYO — NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he’s still planning to go to China on Wednesday in advance of preseason games there between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets later in the week, even after China’s state broadcaster canceled plans to show the games. Silver went so