2:47 AM ET DENVER — As the Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder assembled for a jump ball with 33.8 seconds to go in Denver’s 109-98 victory Friday, Russell Westbrook and Jamal Murray got cross with each other, bringing both teams together for a small squabble. After a review, both players were assessed technical fouls.
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1:51 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — Through 24 minutes of Friday night’s game between the Philadelphia 76ers and Indiana Pacers, Joel Embiid was unstoppable. He tossed around every defender Indiana threw at him like a rag doll, drawing one foul after another. He was a beast on the boards, bullying his way to the
11:34 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN CLEVELAND — Giannis Antetokounmpo had not let Wednesday’s loss to the Indiana Pacers go when he took the court in Cleveland on Friday night. Using his performance in Indianapolis as fuel, Antetokounmpo exploded for 44 points, tying his career high, to lift the Milwaukee Bucks past the Cleveland Cavaliers. “I
1:55 AM ET Trevor Ariza began Friday as a member of the Phoenix Suns. He ended Friday as a member of the Phoenix Suns. But for a few brief hours, it looked as though the 15th-year forward was going to be on the move. A deal that would’ve sent him to the Washington Wizards was
11:27 PM ET SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Kings game operations staff had some fun with Stephen Curry‘s recent comments about the moon landing prior to Friday night’s game between the Kings and the Golden State Warriors. As the Warriors’ starting lineup was being introduced, an old clip of an astronaut walking on the moon
3:22 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN After a long Friday night of unraveling trade agreements, accusations and hijinks, the Washington Wizards and Phoenix Suns were engaged into the early-morning hours trying to discover a pathway to a trade centered on Trevor Ariza, league sources told ESPN. What had been an agreement on a three-team deal that
9:51 PM ET The Hornets were between games Thursday. But Frank Kaminsky still came off the bench to save the day. Kaminsky, whose high-rise apartment building in Charlotte, North Carolina, was evacuated like many buildings around the country in response to bomb threats, said after shootaround Friday, according to the Charlotte Observer, that he made
6:56 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Khris Middleton and Malcolm Brogdon, the second- and fourth-leading scorers for the Milwaukee Bucks, are out against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Middleton has a sprained right finger and Brogdon a sore left hamstring. Neither will play Friday night in the second matchup between the teams this week. Middleton is
11:40 AM ET Memphis Grizzlies center Joakim Noah intimated that he partied too much in New York during his disappointing tenure with the Knicks. Noah signed a four-year, $72 million contract with New York in 2016 and was waived prior to the start of the regular season. He was asked on The Ringer’s “The Chris
7:57 AM ET ESPN News Services Amid uncertainty surrounding a proposed renovation to their arena, Suns owner Robert Sarver said Thursday that he is fully committed to keeping the team in Phoenix. Sarver put out a video message via Twitter a day after a Phoenix City Council vote to approve $230 million in renovations was