7:03 AM ET This season, all your screens will be tuned to the NBA. It’s showtime! Eric Heintz This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s NBA Preview issue. Subscribe today! Watch Pablo S. Torre and Bomani Jones debate hoops every day on “High Noon.” Here’s a riddle: If the Warriors winning a title is a foregone
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3:35 AM ET LAS VEGAS — LeBron James welcomed Lonzo Ball back to action Wednesday with a perfect alley-oop lob that Ball flushed with two hands on a well-executed give and go. The Los Angeles Lakers got their first glimpse of James and Ball, last year’s No. 2 overall pick, on the floor together and
12:30 AM ET On Wednesday, Minnesota Timberwolves guard Jimmy Butler sat down for an interview with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols to discuss returning to practice, his relationship with head coach Tom Thibodeau and his future with the organization. An edited transcript of the interview appears below: Nichols: You returned to practice for the first time with
9:36 PM ET Former coach Fred “Tex” Winter, who pioneered the triangle offense that propelled the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers to multiple NBA championships, died Wednesday at the age of 96, the Bulls confirmed. Winter began his coaching career as an assistant at Kansas State in 1947 before a two-year stint at Marquette,
7:28 PM ET Orlando Magic rookie center Mo Bamba said he sustained a bruised wrist against the Miami Heat on Monday but that an MRI showed no damage. He won’t play in Wednesday’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies. “We’re just trying to be as precautionary as possible,” Bamba told OrlandoMagic.com. Bamba was the sixth overall
12:00 AM ET This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s NBA Preview Issue. Subscribe today! On a Monday morning in Tokyo’s chic Harajuku district, I meet three-time All-Star and three-time champion Draymond Green outside a bustling train station and begin a stroll down the busy, bizarre and impossibly pink Takeshita Street, a shopping haven for
3:25 PM ET There was no debating the artistry of a move made by Houston Rockets guard James Harden during a preseason game against the Shanghai Sharks on Tuesday night, but it did stir up some debate as to whether or not it was traveling. The NBA on Wednesday said no and that Harden’s move
4:59 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN All-Star Jimmy Butler made a dramatic return to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday, boldly challenging teammates, coaches and front office executives in the session, league sources told ESPN. Butler was vociferous and intense throughout scrimmage sessions, targeting president of basketball operations and coach Tom Thibodeau, general manager Scott Layden and
3:00 PM ET Gordon Hayward says he is managing back soreness that was getting “progressively worse” as the Boston Celtics forward prepared for the regular-season opener next week. Hayward, who did not play in Saturday’s preseason finale against the Cleveland Cavaliers, told reporters Wednesday that his back has bothered him in the past but that