3:35 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — The Boston Celtics weren’t supposed to be players in free agency this summer. But, now that both Kyrie Irving and Al Horford seem headed out the door this summer, the Celtics could have $25 million or more to spend in free agency. And, as Danny Ainge prepares for
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3:48 PM ET The NBA fined the New York Knicks $50,000 on Monday for violating the league’s rules regarding equal access for media by not giving the New York Daily News access to their post-draft news conference on Friday. The rest of the New York media was invited to the news conference to introduce draft
3:37 PM ET Kevin WangESPN.com Former NBA All-Star Stephon Marbury is continuing his professional basketball career — in a different fashion — by becoming the head coach of the Beijing Royal Fighters of the Chinese Basketball Association, where he retired from playing last year. The official announcement came Monday after weeks of speculation among Chinese
10:40 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Unable to send disease fighters to help battle one of the deadliest Ebola outbreaks in history, U.S. health officials are turning to basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo for help. Mutombo, regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in NBA history and a well-known philanthropist in
8:08 AM ET Giannis Antetokounmpo or James Harden for MVP? Luka Doncic or Trae Young for Rookie of the Year? The wait is almost over for the “2019 NBA Awards Show,” hosted by Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal (9 p.m. ET, TNT). Here’s the list of finalists for each major award. Note: Six of the
6:46 AM ET What could possibly compel a player who just won an NBA championship and a Finals MVP award to ditch his existing team? For the LA Clippers, who have been eyeing Kawhi Leonard since his exodus from the San Antonio Spurs to the Toronto Raptors nearly a year ago and even sent senior
11:26 PM ET Los Angeles is wasting little time pitching Kawhi Leonard on a potential move to the Clippers. Two digital billboards went up over Interstate 5 in Downey, about 10 miles southeast of Staples Center, encouraging the Southern California native to come home. Free agency around the corner? Must be billboard season in LA.
Jun 25, 2019 The ripple effects of Kevin Durant‘s catastrophic injury touched nearly half of the league’s teams, but two weeks later, the team impacted most as free agency approaches might be one that was not completely obvious the moment Durant crumpled: the Brooklyn Nets. For weeks, most plugged-in reporters have pegged Brooklyn as Kyrie
12:21 AM ET The agent for Willie Cauley-Stein has encouraged the Sacramento Kings to allow his client to become a unrestricted free agent. “I’m hopeful they will not even give Willie his qualifying offer,” Roger Montgomery of Roc Nation Sports told the Sacramento Bee. The 7-foot Cauley-Stein has played all four of his NBA seasons
6:05 PM ET Ohm Youngmisuk Close ESPN Staff Writer Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is a graduate