3:02 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma will undergo a MRI on Thursday to look at his lower back contusion, Los Angeles coach Luke Walton said after his team’s 107-100 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday. Kuzma, the Lakers’ second-leading scorer this season with an 18.3 points per game average,
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8:28 AM ET Memphis Grizzlies teammates Garrett Temple and Omri Casspi got into a physical altercation during a postgame meeting in the locker room on Wednesday, sources confirmed to ESPN. The incident occurred following a 101-94 home loss to the Detroit Pistons. It was Memphis’ third consecutive defeat. The scuffle was “heat-of-the-moment stuff,” a source
1:11 AM ET NEW YORK — The New Orleans Pelicans have lost seven of their past nine games. They’re in 14th place in the Western Conference. Superstar Anthony Davis said that all of the losing isn’t sitting well with anyone in the organization. “We’re a better team than our record shows. Everyone is frustrated. Players,
11:51 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — After Gordon Hayward missed his first two shots in Wednesday night’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves — on the heels of missing all six shots he took while going scoreless for the first time in more than six years in Monday’s loss against the San Antonio Spurs —
6:51 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Tristan Thompson and Rodney Hood will return for the Cleveland Cavaliers after missing time with injuries. The return of the two players will give a boost to the Cavaliers, who have the NBA’s worst record (8-29) going into Wednesday night’s game against the Miami Heat. Thompson has missed
3:18 PM ET Michael C. Wright SAN ANTONIO — Spurs coach Gregg Popovich expressed no interest Wednesday in rehashing the past when his team hosts Kawhi Leonard and the Toronto Raptors on Thursday for the first time since it traded away the former franchise player. Asked whether he regretted the myriad circumstances that led to
1:26 PM ET Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving, who suffered a scratched right eye in Monday’s loss to the San Antonio Spurs, is out for Wednesday night’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Irving suffered the injury as he and Spurs guard Marco Belinelli attempted to secure a rebound in the fourth quarter of the Celtics’
9:13 AM ET Nick DePaulaESPN The footwear industry didn’t need just another signature sneaker. Russell Westbrook, who reinvented the arena walk-in with his daring fashion, didn’t want just any other shoe with his name attached. The starting point for his newest signature sneaker, the Jordan Why Not Zer0.2, was simple: Be anything but simple. “To
9:37 AM ET Enes Kanter met with New York Knicks general manager Scott Perry on Monday to discuss his frustration amid the team’s losing skid and his diminished role, but he did not request a trade. “I did not say, ‘Scott, trade me.’ No I did not say that,” Kanter told reporters after the Knicks’
9:01 AM ET Russell Westbrook is a creature of habit in the most extreme sense. His routines have routines, such as yawning after “twilight’s last gleaming” during every national anthem, setting up pregame layup lines at precisely the same moment before each game, or eating the same pregame meal — peanut butter and jelly, sliced