1:30 AM ET Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic had to be stretchered off the court Monday night after suffering a serious left leg injury in double overtime of the Blazers’ 148-144 win over the Brooklyn Nets. Nurkic finished with 32 points and 16 rebounds. The Blazers clinched a playoff berth with the win. Many
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1:24 AM ET ESPN News Services Devin Booker, playing like a man with nothing to lose for an injury-wracked and lottery-bound Phoenix Suns, turned in a one-man show for the ages Monday night, scoring 59 points to become the first player in NBA history with 50 in a game in which his team lost by
12:11 AM ET Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Rudy Gobert scored a season-high 27 points and set the single-season NBA dunk record to fuel the Utah Jazz to a 125-92 victory Monday night over the Phoenix Suns, who got 59 points from Devin Booker. Booker topped his previous season high of 55, set in
11:01 PM ET Jimmer Fredette, now playing for the Phoenix Suns, got a standing ovation Monday when he checked into their game against the Jazz in Utah. Fredette is a hometown favorite in Utah, where was the National Player of the Year at BYU in 2010-11. Fredette led the NCAA’s Division I in scoring, averaging
7:56 PM ET Hall of Famer Jason Kidd, fired last season by the Milwaukee Bucks, said Monday he would like to get back to coaching “at any level.” Kidd’s name has come up as a potential replacement for Wyking Jones at his alma mater, California. And league sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Sunday that
8:53 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN As Ben Simmons, Donovan Mitchell and Jayson Tatum worked their way through three of the most impressive rookie seasons in recent memory, the debate raged over which of them was the best talent to build around. That three-horse race was competitive enough. But once De’Aaron Fox helped lift the Sacramento
2:35 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Cal Ramsey, who starred at NYU in the 1950s and went on to play and broadcast for the New York Knicks, died Monday. He was 81. The Knicks said he died of cardiac arrest at The Riverside Premier Rehabilitation and Healing Center in Manhattan. After his playing
11:00 AM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says it won’t referee a dispute between Nike and a photographer who took a famous image of basketball great Michael Jordan. The high court declined Monday to hear the copyright case brought by photographer Jacobus Rentmeester. Rentmeester took a famous photograph of Jordan for Life
8:33 AM ET James Harden had just put the finishing touches on his 61-point performance with a spectacular clutch flurry, scoring the Houston Rockets‘ final 13 points from the floor to seal the win over the San Antonio Spurs. He had played 37 minutes in Houston’s third game in four nights in three cities. But
9:20 AM ET Vlade Divac knew he wanted De’Aaron Fox after watching him light up UCLA — and Lonzo Ball — for 39 points in the Sweet 16 in 2017. Six weeks later, Brandon Williams, now the Sacramento Kings‘ assistant general manager, was part of a Philadelphia 76ers contingent interviewing Fox at the NBA’s draft