9:14 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver has become focused on the candidacy of former Detroit and New Orleans general manager Jeff Bower to assume a high-ranking front-office role with the Suns, league sources told ESPN on Saturday. Sarver has begun to inform other serious candidates that he’s retreating from them and
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5:16 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — With home-court advantage throughout the playoffs already clinched, the Milwaukee Bucks have turned their attention toward managing their players’ health in preparation for the postseason. In that spirit, Giannis Antetokounmpo will not play against the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday due to a sore left calf. Coach Mike Budenholzer
7:54 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — With home-court advantage throughout the playoffs already clinched, the Milwaukee Bucks have turned their attention toward managing their players’ health in preparation for the postseason. In that spirit, Giannis Antetokounmpo did not play in Milwaukee’s 133-128 loss to the playoff-hopeful Brooklyn Nets on Saturday due to a sore
2:58 PM ET Vlade Divac, Jack Sikma, Teresa Weatherspoon, Sidney Moncrief, Paul Westphal and Bill Fitch were among the 12 inductees named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday. Al Attles, Carl Braun, Chuck Cooper, Bobby Jones, the 1957-59 Tennessee A&I men’s teams and the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens women’s program were
10:00 AM ET Associated Press The Magic are on the brink of ending the longest playoff drought in the Eastern Conference. Orlando’s 149-113 win over Atlanta on Friday night came in the home regular-season finale for the Magic. In every year since 2012, the home finale has been the last chance for Magic fans to
3:03 AM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — Nick Young smiled from ear to ear in his return to Oracle Arena on Friday night, when he received his championship ring for the Golden State Warriors‘ 2017-18 title run. But after the pregame presentation, it was his former teammates and coaches who got a chuckle. Referee Ken Mauer
2:05 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Paul Westphal, Sidney Moncrief and Bobby Jones are among the 2019 class to be elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, sources told ESPN. A formal announcement will come Saturday at the site of the NCAA Final Four in Minneapolis. Westphal was a five-time All-Star and was named
12:59 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Paul Westphal and Sidney Moncrief are among the 2019 class to be elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, sources told ESPN. A formal announcement will come on Saturday at the site of the NCAA Final Four in Minneapolis. Westphal was a five-time All-Star and was named to
11:57 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN INDIANAPOLIS — As the Boston Celtics have meandered their way through the regular season — failing to live up to their lofty preseason expectations — many around the NBA have been ready to abandon them as a potential option to emerge from the East. At some point, the reasoning goes,
8:36 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — With assists on the Thunder‘s first three baskets in a little more than a minute Friday against the Detroit Pistons, Russell Westbrook clinched averaging a triple-double for the third consecutive season. Paul George hit a wing jumper set up by Westbrook with 10:54 left in the first quarter, giving