8:00 AM ET MO BAMBA SITS on the sideline inside the gym at St. Bernard High School in Playa del Rey, California, and stares intently into his phone, which is on selfie mode. He cradles the device between his thighs, watching himself in his digital mirror, as he inserts into his right eye a contact
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12:09 AM ET Ramona Shelburne Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Adrian Wojnarowski San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich traveled Tuesday to Southern California and met with Kawhi Leonard prior to Thursday’s NBA draft, league sources told ESPN. For weeks, Popovich has been working
4:24 PM ET ESPN News Services MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown sued the city of Milwaukee and its police department Tuesday, saying officers’ use of a stun gun during his arrest for a parking violation constitutes excessive force and that they targeted him because he is black. Brown’s attorney Mark Thomsen filed the
Jun 17, 2018 Trae Young might be the most fascinating prospect in this year’s NBA draft. Young’s freshman season at Oklahoma, which saw him lead the NCAA in both scoring and assists per game, was unlike anything we’ve seen in modern college basketball. (No player had done so since 1983-84, when the NCAA resumed officially
6:54 PM ET ESPN News Services ISTANBUL — A Turkish court has accepted an indictment charging the father of NBA player Enes Kanter with “membership in a terror group,” the country’s official news agency reported Monday. The indictment followed an investigation of Mehmet Kanter, and prosecutors planned to seek his conviction and a prison term
3:10 PM ET Dave McMenamin Close ESPN Staff Writer Cavs and NBA writer for ESPN.com Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14 and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09 Syracuse University graduate Brian Windhorst Close ESPN Senior Writer ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books
7:42 AM ET The organizers of The Basketball Tournament, the $2 million winner-take-all pickup-style challenge entering its fifth iteration, did not know quite what to expect last year when they experimented with a radical change to crunch time: shutting off the game clock and playing until one team reaches a target score. Some coaches and
5:28 PM ET Associated Press MARION, Ind. — Investigators have determined a fire likely was intentionally set at an Indiana bar, one day after the brother of NBA star Zach Randolph was fatally shot there. The fire happened at Hop’s Blues Room in Marion early Sunday — less than 24 hours after 35-year-old Roger Randolph
12:34 PM ET Former NBA player J.J. Hickson is being held without bail in the Coweta County (Georgia) Jail on a charge of armed robbery with a knife, according to online records. He was arrested Friday and currently is awaiting trial. Coweta County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jimmy Yarbrough told multiple media outlets that the arrest
6:23 PM ET Hall of Fame center Shaquille O’Neal says he spent the past few seasons of his career chasing championships. He doesn’t believe LeBron James should do the same thing. For the third time in his career, the offseason revolves around LeBron James. Here’s everything you need to know about The Decision 3.0. LeBron