5:24 PM ET ESPN News Services Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge says Kyrie Irving is taking too much of the blame for the team’s disappointing season. “It’s unfortunate that one person gets credit or blame for a team’s failures,” Ainge said Wednesday. “We had a lot of reasons the team did not succeed this
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5:06 PM ET DeMarcus Cousins was devastated after tearing his quad in the first round of the playoffs, saying he was “just ready to quit.” Luckily for the Golden State Warriors, he didn’t. Cousins, instead, has fought back to become a crucial piece for the Warriors as they enter Game 3 of the NBA Finals
2:15 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN USA Basketball is finalizing a training camp roster for the FIBA World Cup in China that includes Portland‘s Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, Washington‘s Bradley Beal and Cleveland‘s Kevin Love, league sources told ESPN. USA Basketball will conduct an August minicamp in Las Vegas ahead of the September tournament in
10:23 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Dwyane Wade, who retired at the end of the 2018-19 regular season, has a memoir coming out this fall. William Morrow announced Wednesday that the book, “3 Dimensional,” is scheduled for Oct. 22. Wade tells of his rise from Chicago’s South Side to NBA stardom and will
8:17 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN OAKLAND, Calif. — As the NBA Finals shift west beginning with Game 3 at Oracle Arena between the Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night, plenty of attention will be paid to Kyle Lowry. Toronto’s All-Star point guard has struggled with his shot during the first two games
1:37 AM ET Andre Iguodala‘s left calf is aching. The 35-year-old swingman, who has been dealing with the injury throughout most of the Golden State Warriors‘ postseason run, spends the moments following Game 2 of the 2019 NBA Finals limping through the locker room inside Scotiabank Arena. Iguodala peels off his jersey and tells the
5:31 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The Los Angeles Lakers are hiring Lionel Hollins as an assistant coach, league sources told ESPN. The Lakers have made it a priority to add head coaching experience to new coach Frank Vogel’s staff, which now includes Hollins and Jason Kidd. Hollins, 65, is the winningest head coach in Memphis
3:52 PM ET Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr has confirmed that Kevin Durant is out for Game 3 of the NBA Finals. Kerr said, however, that Durant is “ramping up workouts” in his return from a calf injury. Kerr also said Klay Thompson (hamstring) is officially listed as questionable while Andre Iguodala (calf) will
1:04 PM ET DeMar DeRozan is rooting for his best friend and his former teammates to win the NBA Finals, but he still can’t help but feel that he was the “sacrificial lamb” for the Toronto Raptors to get to this point. “Honestly, I don’t think I even said this — I probably said it
May 21, 2019 When Drake showed up courtside for Game 1 of the NBA Finals wearing an autographed Dell Curry Toronto Raptors jersey, it was an epic, Grammy-level troll. But the fact that Dell played for the Raptors and one of his sons plays for the Golden State Warriors is far from the only historical