2:06 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — It’s an hour before the Dallas Mavericks are to play the Denver Nuggets on April 11, 2017. On the practice court inside the American Airlines Center, two teammates are having a 3-point shooting contest. On this night, Tony Romo and Dirk Nowitzki are those teammates. “Dirk said, ‘We’ve got
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9:39 PM ET Houston Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni has been hospitalized since Friday due to an intestinal virus but expects to be released Tuesday and rejoin the team before the playoffs. D’Antoni, 67, has been under observation since Friday at Memorial-Hermann Hospital in Houston and will miss his third consecutive game when the Rockets play
7:51 AM ET Malika AndrewsESPN IT IS 22 minutes before tipoff, precisely, and Giannis Antetokounmpo is on the move. The Bucks’ do-everything forward springs up from the chair in front of his locker after a team meeting and walks barefoot from the locker room in Fiserv Forum into the training room, a path he takes
4:47 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball has committed to work with Creative Artists Agency after mutually parting ways with his previous agent, Harrison Gaines, last week. “After thinking about this decision over the last few weeks, I concluded that CAA made the most sense for my career both on and off the
2:48 PM ET Utah Jazz guard Kyle Korver, in a first-person piece published Monday on The Players’ Tribune, reflected on race relations in America and pondered his position as a white man playing in the NBA. In the piece titled “Privileged,” Korver touched on a variety of race-related topics and shared his own experiences, citing
6:43 AM ET What’s at stake for the NBA playoff race and draft lottery during the final two days of the NBA regular season? Three teams are competing for the final playoff spot in the East, and it should go down to the wire. Only one playoff matchup is set in either conference, with plenty
9:58 AM ET Time for our eighth annual Luke Walton All-Stars — an ode to bit players who bounce around the fringes of the NBA before landing in new roles where things click. (Read about the origins of the column here.) Joakim Noah, Memphis Grizzlies (captain) Noah finished fourth in MVP voting in 2014. The
1:04 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Dwyane Wade’s career all but ended Sunday. Yes, Wade and his Miami Heat still are mathematically alive with two games remaining in this final regular season of the Hall of Fame shooting guard’s career. But after the way Sunday played out — with Miami losing a heartbreaker in
11:43 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks ticked off one more regular-season accomplishment on Sunday night in Fiserv Forum: Beating the Atlanta Hawks 115-107 and securing their 60th win of the season. As the clock wound down and the Bucks’ dribbled out the clock, Bucks fans chanted “60” at the top of
1:02 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — The Boston Celtics know who they will play in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Now, though, they have to wait to find out if a couple of injured Celtics will be ready when Boston’s postseason begins here against the Indiana Pacers next weekend. Not only did