7:44 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid will sit out the team’s three-game road trip that began Saturday night at Minnesota, coach Brett Brown told reporters Saturday. The Sixers had already said Embiid would miss Saturday’s game, but Brown said Saturday that Embiid will also miss Monday’s game at Dallas and Wednesday’s game at
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5:38 PM ET LOS ANGELES — LeBron James will be held out of the Los Angeles Lakers‘ final six games of the season to aid in the recovery of his strained groin, the team announced Saturday. “After consulting with our team doctors and medical staff, we have decided to hold LeBron out of games for
1:02 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Kyrie Irving and Al Horford will both miss Saturday night’s game between the Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets. After both Irving and Horford played 35 minutes in Friday night’s 114-112 victory in Boston over the Indiana Pacers — a win that moved Boston into a tie with
3:53 AM ET LOS ANGELES — After becoming the first Los Angeles Lakers player since Magic Johnson in 1989 to register 17 assists and five steals in a game, Rajon Rondo said he hoped to stick around L.A. a little longer. “Absolutely,” Rondo told ESPN when asked if he wanted to come back to the
1:00 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS — The Golden State Warriors were furious with the officials following several “mind-boggling” calls late in a 131-130 overtime loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night. The call that seemed to upset Warriors coach Steve Kerr and his players the most came with 4.4 seconds left in overtime and the
12:13 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Friday night’s game at TD Garden between the Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers was billed as a playoff preview. For those on hand to watch it, though, it simply felt like a playoff game. In the end, it was the Celtics who came away with the 114-112 victory,
7:26 AM ET Nick DePaulaESPN Zion Williamson is about to get paid. Long before he steps on an NBA court, the projected No. 1 overall pick in June’s NBA draft is expected to land a sneaker endorsement deal that will make him far richer than his first NBA contract will. In fact, many in the
9:28 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN Oregon Ducks freshman Bol Bol has decided to turn pro, agreeing to hire an agent at CAA for representation in his eventual NBA career, the agency told ESPN on Friday. The 7-foot-2 center is No. 12 on ESPN’s rankings of the top 100 NBA draft prospects. Bol played in nine
5:03 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — Golden State Warriors forward Jordan Bell apologized Friday for actions that led to him being suspended for “conduct detrimental to the team” and forced him to sit out Wednesday’s win over the Memphis Grizzlies. Bell declined comment to a handful of reporters after Friday’s shootaround, but did answer a few
8:36 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — The Boston Celtics issued a statement Friday explaining their decision to ban a fan for two years for being verbally abusive toward Golden State Warriors center DeMarcus Cousins at the game between the two teams at TD Garden in January. “On January 26, we were alerted by DeMarcus