1:27 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Dave McMenamin Close ESPN Staff Writer Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. In a meeting on Tuesday, following a winless two-game trip, Los Angeles Lakers president Magic Johnson
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2:53 PM ET Andre SnellingsESPN You’re in a weekly transaction league, and you need to decide by Monday evening who your starting lineup will be for the week. Should you consider sitting usual impact starters like DeMar DeRozan or LaMarcus Aldridge? Or perhaps starting someone like Eric Gordon or Frank Ntilikina, who might generally be
7:50 AM ET Chris Herring MINNEAPOLIS — When Derrick Rose walked into the Minnesota Timberwolves‘ locker room Wednesday night after an improbable 50-point showing, his teammates doused him with bottles of water in celebratory fashion. For a few moments, the club had escaped — or at least forgotten about — the awkward cloud that’s hung
2:16 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — When Gordon Hayward went up to attempt to block a layup try by Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Connaughton midway through the second quarter of the Celtics’ 117-113 victory at TD Garden, it looked like simply one moment among many in what easily was Hayward’s best game of the
6:25 PM ET Marc J. Spears OAKLAND, Calif. — Can you see DeMarcus Cousins possibly returning to the New Orleans Pelicans as a free agent next offseason? Pelicans star forward Anthony Davis can. “He will be a free agent next year. Hopefully, down the line we can reconnect,” Davis told ESPN’s The Undefeated on Wednesday
10:48 AM ET Dave McMenamin Close ESPN Staff Writer Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. Ohm Youngmisuk Close ESPN Staff Writer Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006.
8:00 AM ET Starting November with another 10 Things: 1. Damian Lillard, wrecking you This guy gets better every season. Lillard has rounded out his game on offense to the point that he is good at everything — and realizes it. He can punish opponents in every conceivable way, from almost any spot inside the
9:35 PM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — Golden State Warriors big man DeMarcus Cousins is starting to participate in more group aspects of practice as he continues his recovery from a torn left Achilles, but he still has “a ways to go” before he plays in games again, according to head coach Steve Kerr. “Conditioning wise
7:18 PM ET ESPN News Services CLEVELAND — The increase around the NBA in scoring this season has been a hot topic among coaches and players. Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday he believes the league’s new rules that have led to more offense are going well. “We had a call with our competition committee last
4:53 PM ET NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony believes the perception of the Knicks during his tenure with the club had a negative effect on its chances to land a top free agent. “I think just the business. Everything that was going on. The perception of New York Knicks … not basketball but the organization,”