9:27 AM ET Guard Russell Westbrook will sit out the Houston Rockets‘ preseason opener against the Shanghai Sharks on Monday night and could miss more games. The Rockets are taking a cautious approach during the preseason with Westbrook, who underwent arthroscopic surgery in the spring to clean up his right knee. “He’s going to work
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7:22 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The five-man team on which LeBron James and Anthony Davis played together so thoroughly dominated the second day of Los Angeles Lakers training camp Sunday that James was pulled to rest before the day’s scrimmages were over. Lakers coach Frank Vogel plans to do more of that with
7:19 PM ET PLAYA VISTA, Calif. — Kawhi Leonard said his health and playing time will be managed differently this season compared to how the Toronto Raptors managed the star forward. On his first Media Day with the LA Clippers, Leonard said his health is considerably better now than it was entering last season with
6:20 PM ET LA Clippers forward Paul George says he will not play in the pre-season and is targeting a November return from dual offseason shoulder surgeries. In an interview with SportsCenter on Sunday, before the team’s annual media day, George said he still has “a little ways to go” in his rehabilitation but “I’m
1:43 PM ET Associated Press AKRON, Ohio — A sweat-stained jersey LeBron James wore while playing Ohio high school basketball and during his first Sports Illustrated magazine cover shoot as a teenager in 2002 is being auctioned. The online auction listing says the gold mesh jersey from the NBA star’s days with the St. Vincent-St.
7:01 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Bodies bounced off one another during an intrasquad scrimmage that capped the Los Angeles Lakers‘ first practice of training camp Saturday. LeBron James collided with Alex Caruso, causing both of them to fall to the floor. Anthony Davis and Dwight Howard got tangled up going for a rebound
4:19 PM ET Two-time championship coach Erik Spoelstra has agreed to a long-term contract extension with the Miami Heat, league sources told ESPN. Spoelstra, who would have been entering the final season of his deal, quietly negotiated a new deal that allows him to continue as the league’s second-longest tenured active coach with one team,
4:15 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Kawhi Leonard has moved on and Danny Green is gone, but the Toronto Raptors still have an NBA title to defend. This season, a group led by All-Star guard Kyle Lowry, breakout talent Pascal Siakam and defensive standout Marc Gasol is turning “We the North” into “We Want
8:54 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Oddsmakers in Las Vegas might consider them the favorites, and desire to repent for the 2018-19 debacle of a season might be palpable, but LeBron James is doing his best to keep the burden of expectations off the Los Angeles Lakers this season. “I’m very motivated but I’m
6:36 PM ET Anthony Davis, now firmly in the fold with the purple and gold, is keeping sour grapes at arm’s length. The Los Angeles Lakers‘ superstar addition says he isn’t affected by comments the general manager of his former team made that appeared to be critical of the forward’s exit from New Orleans. “That’s