3:36 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid is starting against the visiting Indiana Pacers on Sunday (3:30 p.m., ABC) after missing the past eight games due to left knee soreness. 76ers coach Brett Brown said Embiid looked good going through his walk-through before the game, and the team officially announced the All-Star center would
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3:46 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Even as the Los Angeles Lakers continue their fade from the playoff picture in the NBA’s Western Conference following Saturday’s 120-107 loss to the Boston Celtics, Staples Center is still an exceedingly pleasant place to watch a game. The gravitas of Lawrence Tanter’s baritone over the public address; the
11:19 PM ET Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns pulled up lame with less than 10 seconds to go in the fourth quarter of Minnesota’s 135-130 overtime victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday. Head coach Ryan Saunders told reporters after the game that Towns will undergo further testing tonight. The host Timberwolves were up two
4:05 PM ET There is optimism about the MRI results on the right knee of Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns, sources tell ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Towns limped off the court of Minnesota’s 135-130 overtime victory over the Washington Wizards Saturday night in Minneapolis with less than 10 seconds to go in the fourth quarter. The center
7:33 PM ET Oklahoma City star forward Paul George has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for criticizing the officiating after the Thunder’s 118-110 loss to the LA Clippers on Friday night. “It’s just bad officiating,” George said after the game. “I’m sorry, just bad officiating. We don’t get a fair whistle. We haven’t gotten
3:04 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Rockets guard James Harden will play against the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday after X-rays on his injured right wrist were negative. Harden first injured it last Sunday in a win over Boston and aggravated it Friday night in a fall in the first half of a victory over
10:58 PM ET Ohm Youngmisuk LOS ANGELES — Brandon Ingram and Lonzo Ball both will miss the remainder of the Los Angeles Lakers‘ fading season. Ingram has been diagnosed with deep venous thrombosis in his ailing right arm, and coach Luke Walton was tight-lipped Saturday on any further details, other than to say the third-year
1:25 AM ET Ohm Youngmisuk LOS ANGELES — Lonzo Ball will miss the remainder of the Los Angeles Lakers‘ fading season, sources confirmed to ESPN, joining teammate Brandon Ingram on the sideline for the rest of the team’s disappointing campaign. Sources said Ball has been shut down as he continues to make his way back
2:03 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers forward Brandon Ingram has been diagnosed with a deep vein thrombosis in his right arm and is expected to miss the rest of the season, the team said Saturday. Ingram, who is averaging a career-best 18.3 points and 5.1 rebounds per game this season, had missed the past two
2:52 PM ET Nicole Noren The volatile, longstanding dispute between Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter and Turkish government officials has added another chapter, this time in separate interviews conducted by E:60’s Jeremy Schaap, with Kanter again comparing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to a dictator, and former NBA player Hedo Turkoglu, now a Turkish