5:25 PM ET ESPN News Services The NBA has suspended Toronto Raptors center Serge Ibaka for three games for his role in a fight with Marquese Chriss of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday, the league announced. Chriss has been suspended one game by the league. Both bans are without pay. Ibaka will lose $448,276 in
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10:41 PM ET While the Golden State Warriors have meandered through an up-and-down season, head coach Steve Kerr’s message to his team has remained consistent: Winning a championship is difficult. Attempting to go to five straight NBA Finals is an arduous road not for the faint of heart. Trying to win an NBA championship for
Mar 7, 2019 IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT that LeBron James didn’t sign a four-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers last summer and instead did what he did when he came back to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014 and signed a one-year deal with a player option. Let’s assume if that were the case, the
3:14 AM ET LOS ANGELES — When Lou Williams started his pro career in 2005 coming off the bench in Philadelphia, he felt some “resentment” and a burning desire to prove people wrong about his reserve role. Thirteen seasons later, Williams is not only the reigning Sixth Man of the Year but now he has
12:51 AM ET HOUSTON — Houston Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni found himself in a playful mood after his team extended its NBA-best win streak to nine games Monday with a 118-106 victory over the Charlotte Hornets behind a 28-point night from James Harden. So when the focus shifted toward Wednesday’s showdown against the Golden State
1:25 AM ET Russell Westbrook confronted a male fan and his wife Monday night during the Oklahoma City Thunder‘s win at Utah, telling the man he would “f—” him up and do the same to his wife. The exchange was caught on video and posted to Twitter by a reporter for Utah’s Deseret News. It
10:30 PM ET Associated Press Former New York Knicks star Charles Oakley says team owner James Dolan is a “bully” for threatening to ban fans from Madison Square Garden. Oakley, a longtime NBA enforcer and rebounding machine, said Dolan was wrong to mouth off at a fan who told him to sell the team during
11:55 PM ET ESPN News Services Toronto Raptors center Serge Ibaka and Cleveland Cavaliers forward Marquese Chriss were ejected from Monday night’s game after getting into a physical altercation. Ibaka went to the floor after the two were battling for position under Cleveland’s basket as the Raptors attempted a full-court pass that sailed out of
5:31 PM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — Warriors coach Steve Kerr used humor to downplay a soundbite of him discussing Golden State forward Draymond Green that went viral after Sunday night’s loss to the Phoenix Suns. Late in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game, cameras caught Kerr appearing to say, “I’m so f—ing tired of Draymond’s
4:44 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Andre Ingram, the Los Angeles Lakers‘ feel-good story of late last season, will get a second tour of duty in the NBA. Lakers head coach Luke Walton confirmed that Ingram — who plays for the franchise’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers — will join the team