12:45 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — At halftime of Saturday night’s game here at Barclays Center between the Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets, the home team’s season was on the line. Clinging to a one-point halftime lead, and needing a win to avoid falling into a tie for the Eastern Conference’s eighth and
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10:51 PM ET Associated Press It’s official: In the NBA, this was the year of the 3-pointer. Again. The NBA has set a record for 3-pointers made for the seventh consecutive year, after the 25,808th of the season was made Saturday night. The league is on pace for about an 8 percent rise in 3-pointers
9:01 PM ET ESPN News Services HOUSTON — James Harden had 50 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists and scored 10 straight points down the stretch to help the Rockets beat the Sacramento Kings 119-108 on Saturday. This is Harden’s fifth career 50-point triple-double, the most in NBA history, according to ESPN Stats & Information
10:38 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MINNEAPOLIS — Jimmy Butler said he knew the boos were coming. In his first game back at the Target Center since being traded to the Philadelphia 76ers, Butler was introduced first in the starting lineup. Fans young and old cupped their hands over their mouths and loudly jeered the four-time
10:50 PM ET Dallas Mavericks forward Kristaps Porzingis is being investigated in New York for an alleged rape that a woman told police took place last year, according to a New York Post report. The woman told police on Thursday about the alleged attack, according to the Post report, which cited law enforcement sources. The
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
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