8:41 AM ET With less than a minute to go and the score tied in Sacramento, the Los Angeles Lakers are trying to stave off a 15-point comeback attempt by the Kings and grind out a road win. LeBron James is hundreds of miles away in Los Angeles after straining his groin two nights prior
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8:18 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Chandler Parsons says that he’s “disappointed” that he couldn’t finish the season with the Memphis Grizzlies and insisted that he’s “ready to play and committed to getting back on the court.” “I am extremely disappointed that I didn’t get to finish this season alongside my teammates and the Memphis coaching
6:47 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Celtics star Kyrie Irving is back in the lineup against the Brooklyn Nets after being sidelined with an eye injury. Irving missed two games after scratching both corneas in a collision Dec. 31 at San Antonio. Boston won both — against Minnesota and Dallas — while Irving was
7:00 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns said Monday that “no one saw it coming” when asked about the firing of coach and team president Tom Thibodeau the day before. In fact, Towns said he told assistant coaches just last week that he felt the organization was gaining some much-needed
5:39 PM ET ESPN News Services CLEVELAND — Cavaliers All-Star forward Kevin Love is still weeks away from getting on the court as he recovers from surgery on his left foot, he said Monday. Love played in just four games before undergoing surgery Nov. 2 to relieve pressure around his big toe. He was recently
4:19 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MINNEAPOLIS — Timberwolves guard Derrick Rose apologized Monday for saying that his doubters should “kill yourself.” How should Minnesota build around Karl-Anthony Towns now? The Minnesota Timberwolves have fired team president and head coach Tom Thibodeau, league sources told ESPN on Sunday. 1 Related Rose, who was telling coach impassioned
8:29 AM ET A FEW MONTHS BACK, Blake Griffin announced he was quitting comedy, his favorite extracurricular activity away from basketball, to pursue music as his next sideline. This declaration was the premise of the four-part mockumentary-ish “Comedy by Blake” digital series for Funny or Die. After Jeff Ross broke the news with a smirk
11:45 AM ET The future of sports betting-infused game broadcasts will be on display Friday, when the Washington Wizards host the Milwaukee Bucks. NBC Sports Washington Plus will produce an alternate broadcast for the Bucks-Wizards game that will feature a free-to-play predictive contest with a $500 prize, along with real-time sports-betting data and statistics that
11:29 AM ET Former NBA player Hedo Turkoglu, now a chief adviser to the President of Turkey, says comments by Enes Kanter about the country are nothing more than an ongoing “political smear campaign” by the New York Knicks center. Kanter earlier this week said he would not travel with the Knicks to London for
9:58 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — After a 108-86 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves dropped the Los Angeles Lakers to 1-5 without LeBron James this season, Lakers coach Luke Walton said he wants to see more fire from his team’s two former lottery picks, Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram, as they try to make it through