3:38 PM ET Center Dwight Howard will make his debut for the Washington Wizards Friday, coach Scott Brooks said. Howard, 32, returned to practice Thursday after missing the team’s first seven games with a strained muscle in his buttocks. He is expected to start alongside power forward Markieff Morris Friday when the 1-6 Wizards host
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11:20 AM ET Paul LukasESPN.com Close Sports journalism’s foremost uniform reporter ESPN.com columnist since 2004 Also blogs at uni-watch.com When Nike took over as the NBA’s on-court outfitter last season, each team was given at least four uniforms: primary white and colored designs, and two alternates — the “Statement” and “City” designs. The plan is
2:43 PM ET James Harden is doubtful for Friday’s game against the Brooklyn Nets, but coach Mike D’Antoni is optimistic that the Houston Rockets guard can return to the floor Saturday. Harden has missed the past two games after being diagnosed with a Grade 1-plus strain to his left hamstring last week. He was set
Oct 31, 2018 THERE ARE EIGHT players who have won at least three NBA titles and two MVPs. The list reads like the absolute who’s who in league history: Kareem. Russell. MJ. Magic. Bird. Duncan. LeBron. Even tangential fans don’t need their full names. You shouldn’t for the last one on that list, either: Steph.
12:39 PM ET JR Smith, unhappy with his playing time, on Thursday said he hopes to be traded by the Cleveland Cavaliers. “Yeah,” Smith said when asked if he was hoping for a trade. “They know. They don’t want me here, so they obviously know.” On Tuesday, the Cavs informed Smith for the second time
9:35 AM ET A live television sports prediction platform is making their biggest marketing push, as investors and gamblers alike dream of live in-play betting to become commonplace in the United States. WinView, an app that currently offers players to engage in games of skill in which they answer questions about what is about to
4:03 AM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — Draymond Green wants to win another Defensive Player of the Year award and admits that it is a big goal of his this season. “I need that,” Green said Wednesday night after the Golden State Warriors‘ 131-121 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. “I need that bad. Real bad.
3:10 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Soon after the buzzer sounded on the Los Angeles Lakers‘ 114-113 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday at Staples Center, Luka Doncic headed toward the Lakers locker room. Doncic, the Mavericks’ 19-year-old rookie sensation from Slovenia who was drafted No. 3 overall this past summer, patiently waited in
11:49 PM ET Derrick Rose couldn’t hold back the tears after his career-high 50 points and game-winning block in the Timberwolves’ 128-125 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night. Wearing a throwback jersey, Rose looked more like the 2011 MVP than the player who has struggled in recent stints with the Knicks and Cavaliers.
11:06 PM ET To say Derrick Rose has had a rough few years would be an understatement. The former league MVP saw his run in Chicago come to an unceremonious end, played one disappointing season with the New York Knicks, then signed on to join a star-studded lineup in Cleveland last year, only to end