8:30 AM ET SPRINTING BACK AND forth between the court, weight room and visitors locker room at Staples Center on a mid-November evening, Todd Forcier keeps time. The Portland Trail Blazers‘ sports performance specialist is running players through warm-ups an hour before they face the Lakers, but his eyes are also trained on the red
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4:52 AM ET OAKLAND, Calif. – James Harden repeatedly flashed two fingers in the moments after he led the Houston Rockets to a come-from-behind, 135-134 overtime win over the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night, the reigning MVP’s most recent statement about his plans to claim that award again. >photo1> This historic run by Harden,
4:01 AM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — After blowing a 20-point second-half lead and watching James Harden hit an “impossible” game-winning 3-pointer, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson felt the Golden State Warriors gave away a 135-134 overtime loss to the Houston Rockets. “For sure,” Curry said. “You have a lead like that, you don’t lose at
1:50 AM ET SAN ANTONIO — Marco Casas, 12, flexed some ingenuity in salvaging his grey Kawhi Leonard San Antonio Spurs jersey. He wasn’t throwing it away. To fix the issue of Leonard’s nameplate on back, Casa covered it with a silver strip of duct tape, and wrote “Aldridge” in black permanent marker. On both
11:15 PM ET The Cleveland Cavaliers said Thursday that All-Star forward Kevin Love has been cleared to progress in his rehab from left foot surgery after receiving positive results in a follow-up consultation earlier this week. In a statement released Thursday night, the Cavs said that Love met with Dr. Martin O’Malley at the Hospital
1:56 AM ET SAN ANTONIO — DeMar DeRozan said going into Thursday night’s Raptors–Spurs matchup that he had “wanted to break every single record that was there” for Toronto. The problem is, DeRozan is now with San Antonio. And he made a bold statement by notching his first career triple-double in his first meeting against
10:28 PM ET Charlotte Hornets center Cody Zeller had surgery Thursday on the third metacarpal of his right hand and was expected to miss four to six weeks, the team announced. Zeller suffered the fracture during Monday’s game against the Orlando Magic. The 7-footer had 14 points and six rebounds in 24 minutes before leaving
9:00 AM ET Let’s roll into 2019: 1. The Pacers, rock solid Thaddeus Young‘s blue-collar handsiness has come to symbolize the gritty, underappreciated Pacers, but Bojan Bogdanovic might work better in this sense: He does everything pretty well. Bogdanovic is a shooter by trade, and he’s lighting it up from deep. Close out hard, and
9:09 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN SAN ANTONIO — Kawhi Leonard‘s return to face the Spurs was met with the expected reaction. Leonard, who returned here for the first time Thursday night since being traded to the Toronto Raptors last summer, was loudly booed from the moment he took the court for pregame warm-ups, as well
8:34 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The Memphis Grizzlies have acquired Chicago Bulls forward Justin Holiday for two players and two future second-round draft picks, league sources told ESPN. The Grizzlies sent the Bulls their 2019 and 2020 second-round picks, along with forward Wayne Selden and guard MarShon Brooks, sources said. Memphis coveted the athletic playmaking