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
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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
10:40 PM ET James Harden left the Houston Rockets‘ 100-89 loss to the visiting Utah Jazz on Wednesday night with tightness in his hamstring, coach Mike D’Antoni said. The team is not certain about the severity of the injury. Harden will be re-evaluated Thursday. Harden was subbed out at 5:19 of the fourth quarter and
9:03 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — Philadelphia 76ers guard Ben Simmons, who missed one game against Detroit with back tightness, will play Wednesday night against the Milwaukee Bucks, the team announced. Simmons will start and will not have any minute restrictions in the Eastern Conference matchup. The reigning rookie of the year sustained the
7:35 PM ET Former NBA commissioner David Stern, reflecting on a 2011 proposed Chris Paul trade that he vetoed when the league was the interim owner of the then-New Orleans Pelicans, said it has stood the test of time and that general manager Dell Demps was “lousy” and was poised to lose star Pelicans center
7:04 PM ET ESPN News Services NBA agent and Klutch Sports co-founder Rich Paul called the choice of top prospect Darius Bazley to forgo college and opt for a $1 million shoe-company internship the product of a broken system, saying Wednesday the on-court component of the next seven months was “the one thing that we
5:33 PM ET Joel Embiid was issued a warning for flopping during the Philadelphia 76ers‘ overtime loss to the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday, the NBA announced. The warning doesn’t carry a monetary fine, but if Embiid violates the NBA’s anti-flopping rules again, he will be fined $5,000. The league also rescinded a technical foul issued