1:08 PM ET In a significant step toward the elimination of the one-and-done rule, basketball’s biggest stakeholders have come together to make an unprecedented agreement that will allow the NBA to begin formally working with the nation’s top teenagers to help prepare them for pro careers. The NBA, NCAA and National Basketball Players Association announced
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1:51 PM ET Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs have signed Quincy Pondexter, adding a forward in the same week veteran star Manu Ginobili announced his retirement. The 6-foot-7 Pondexter spent last season with the Chicago Bulls, averaging 2.0 points, 1.2 rebounds and 8.5 minutes in 23 games. The seven-year NBA veteran
3:10 AM ET Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James said he has lost popularity for speaking out on social issues — but that won’t deter him from continuing to do so. “I want the satisfaction. Not for myself, but for everybody else. I was raised off of [rappers] Snoop [Dogg] and [Tupac] and [Jay-Z] and
9:54 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN For the first time in league history, the NBA will allow players to wear sneakers of any color at any point during the upcoming season, league sources confirmed. The rule change is part of the NBA’s ongoing effort to allow its players to be expressive on the court. Last season
9:58 PM ET SAN ANTONIO — Manu Ginobili expected “at all times” that the 2017-18 NBA season would be his last, but Monday’s retirement announcement won’t prevent the future Hall of Famer from continuing to contribute to the San Antonio Spurs. Manu Ginobili announced his retirement from basketball Monday after 16 seasons with the San
Aug 30, 2018 “Where’s Kyrie?” Director Charles Stone III kept repeating the question to his assistants throughout last summer’s filming of “Uncle Drew,” Kyrie Irving‘s feature-length-film debut. Invariably, someone would set off running in the direction of any bouncing ball. Kevin Pelton had the Cavs acing the Kyrie Irving trade when it went down. What
7:59 PM ET Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward will return to Boston next week and are expected to join their teammates in informal workouts as Celtics players begin pickup play in advance of the late September start of training camp. Irving and Hayward have been rehabbing this summer from follow-up procedures on the injuries that
7:38 PM ET The San Antonio Spurs have reached an agreement on a one-year deal with free-agent wing Quincy Pondexter, league sources told ESPN. After multiple surgical procedures on his left knee and contracting the skin infection MRSA, sources said Pondexter is finally fully healthy. The news comes on the same day that longtime Spurs
2:04 PM ET Steve Kerr saw the magic of Manu Ginobili early on. “I played with Manu his rookie year, and you could see the joy and the competitive desire and the passion every single day,” the former San Antonio Spurs guard and current Golden State Warriors coach said. “[Former Spur] Sean Elliott had the
11:46 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Philadelphia 76ers managing partner Josh Harris told ESPN that the franchise’s general manager search is identifying new targets to meet and interview, but didn’t rule out leaving the interim structure in place for the coming season. “It does leave open that possibility,” Harris told ESPN on Monday. “We prefer to