9:15 PM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut doesn’t know exactly what his future will hold after this postseason, but he expects he’ll go back to Australia and play in the National Basketball League again. And if an opportunity arises leading up to next year’s NBA playoffs for the 7-footer to
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5:54 PM ET Jason Kidd interviewed for the Los Angeles Lakers‘ head-coaching vacancy Monday, multiple sources told ESPN. Kidd becomes the third candidate to meet with the Lakers, following Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Monty Williams and former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue, who both interviewed last week. Miami Heat assistant coach Juwan Howard is
3:47 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The Phoenix Suns have received permission to meet with Philadelphia 76ers assistant Monty Williams to discuss the franchise’s coaching opening, league sources told ESPN. A Sixers official told ESPN the request came on Tuesday and the organization granted it. The Suns plan to compete with the Los Angeles Lakers in
7:00 AM ET IT’S SATURDAY, SEPT. 8, in Tyler, Texas, and it is officially “Jimmy Butler Day.” The chancellor of Tyler Junior College has just bestowed an honorary degree on its most famous alumnus, followed by the city council handing the key to the city to the Sixers swingman, an honor not even bestowed upon
4:08 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — “Determination over negativity” isn’t just a marketing slogan for Donovan Mitchell‘s Adidas signature shoe. It’s a mantra for the young Utah Jazz star. So Mitchell wasn’t thinking about how much he had struggled during this Western Conference playoff series when the fourth quarter of Game 4 began with
3:58 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — Houston Rockets center Clint Capela, who had perhaps his worst performance of the season in the Rockets’ 107-91 Game 4 loss to the Utah Jazz on Monday, told ESPN that he has been battling two respiratory illnesses during the series. Capela, who missed a practice due to illness
2:05 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN After only one season on the job, Igor Kokoskov was fired as coach of the Phoenix Suns on Monday night. The timing on the dismissal of Kokoskov, the first European-born NBA head coach, was partly rooted in a desire to compete against the Los Angeles Lakers in pursuit of Philadelphia
1:17 AM ET Malika AndrewsESPN DETROIT — The last time the Milwaukee Bucks danced out of the first round of the playoffs, Giannis Antetokounmpo had yet to pick up a basketball. It was 2001, Ray Allen was lighting up the court against the Philadelphia 76ers. Antetokounmpo was 7 years old and half a world away.
11:42 PM ET A new lawsuit alleges that new Sacramento Kings coach Luke Walton sexually assaulted a woman sometime before being named coach of the Los Angeles Lakers in April 2016. The lawsuit, first reported by TMZ and confirmed by the Los Angeles Times, alleges that Kelli Tennant, a former host on Spectrum SportsNet LA
9:57 PM ET DENVER — Nikola Jokic remembers feeling helpless on that April night in 2016. The Denver Nuggets center was a rookie facing Tim Duncan, who was in his 19th and final NBA season. Duncan scored a season-high 21 points and left an unforgettable impression on the young Jokic. “He could not move that