6:47 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The Houston Rockets are making a renewed bid to acquire Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Jimmy Butler, including four future first-round draft picks in their most recent offer, league sources told ESPN. The Timberwolves have continued to solicit offers on Butler since the start of the regular season, the sources said. Houston’s
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9:32 PM ET Detroit Pistons guard Luke Kennard probably sustained a right shoulder separation and will undergo an MRI on Friday, league sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Kennard left Thursday’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers after running into a Tristan Thompson screen. Kennard is in his second season with the Pistons after being taken 12th
8:06 AM ET A new season, and a new batch of 10 Things: 1. The Raptors, everywhere you look Toronto looks like the most complete team outside whatever basketball hedonism Stephen Curry oversees in the Bay. They have the versatility to mimic small-ball without actually being small, which is the best way to win in
3:34 PM ET Chicago Bulls forward Bobby Portis is expected to miss four to six weeks with an MCL sprain in his right knee, the team annnounced. Portis suffered the injury Wednesday in the Bulls’ 112-110 win over the Charlotte Hornets — Chicago’s first win of the season — when he collided with Hornets guard
3:01 PM ET Free agency may be more than eight months away, but the public courting of Kevin Durant has already started. With Durant and the Golden State Warriors in New York to play the New York Knicks on Friday, a marketing company has put up a billboard near Madison Square Garden recruiting Durant to
2:08 PM ET Houston Rockets guard James Harden did not practice and is “very doubtful” for Friday’s game after injuring his left hamstring, coach Mike D’Antoni said Thursday. Harden, the reigning MVP, did not finish the Rockets’ 100-89 loss to the Utah Jazz on Wednesday after feeling tightness in his hamstring. He exited with 5:19
3:46 AM ET PHOENIX — After an angry Luke Walton held nothing back on his team’s poor defense at the morning team meeting, the Los Angeles Lakers responded to their coach and rode a dominant second quarter to their first victory of the season. “We could feel his anger,” Lance Stephenson told ESPN’s Dave McMenamin
1:21 AM ET HOUSTON — His slow start weighed heavily on Donovan Mitchell, the second-year Utah Jazz star guard who holds himself to high standards. He admitted that he was pressing, trying to be perfect. “I was in my head,” Mitchell told ESPN after busting out of his slump with a 38-point, seven-assist performance in
1:30 AM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry scored 51 points and is now fifth on the NBA’s all-time 3-pointers list after knocking down 11 treys in a 144-122 win over the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night. The two-time MVP finished the night shooting 15-for-24 from the field, 11-for-16 from beyond
12:24 AM ET PHOENIX — Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker strained his left hamstring and left the game for good late in the third quarter in Wednesday’s loss against the Los Angeles Lakers Booker pulled up on a drive and grabbed his hamstring before immediately pointing to the Suns bench to ask out with 1:41