4:09 PM ET Kevin WangESPN.com SHANGHAI — The energy inside Shanghai’s Rucker Park — an indoor basketball gym — is so perked-up that it stands in defiance to the rain showers falling on the city. To the hundreds of fans who braved the weather to make a pilgrimage here to see LeBron James, this place
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1:36 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee’s city attorney says police officers did nothing wrong when they used a stun gun on Bucks guard Sterling Brown during his arrest over a parking violation in January. The city attorney’s assertion in response to a lawsuit Brown filed in June is a stark contrast to the
Aug 23, 2018 CANNON BALL, N.D. — The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation stretches across the central Dakotas, a harsh and largely desolate landscape along a wide section of the Missouri River. It is not an easy place to live and not an easy place to get to. But it is a sacred place for the
4:35 PM ET ESPN News Services Los Angeles police say former Golden State Warriors guard Nick Young was arrested in Hollywood during a late-night stop for a routine traffic violation. Officer Mike Lopez, a department spokesman, told The Associated Press that Young was arrested Friday for delaying an investigation, a misdemeanor. Lopez says Young didn’t
12:45 PM ET HANOVER, Mass. — Boston Celtics guard Terry Rozier doesn’t want to make any grand predictions about what his team will accomplish during the 2018-19 season but he’s quite bullish on their potential to be a title contender. “We can be special. Truly special,” Rozier said Saturday during a break from his youth
Aug 24, 2018 TRAE YOUNG WAS already accustomed to having all eyes pinned on him, so it wasn’t startling that nearly every fan in the Utah Jazz Summer League gymnasium intently followed the flight of the ball as he lofted his first official shot as a member of the Atlanta Hawks and … missed everything.
11:34 PM ET Kobe Bryant has heard how some of his most die-hard fans might have an issue with LeBron James joining the Los Angeles Lakers. Bryant says if those people are fans of his, they will “fall in line.” Kobe Bryant says even his staunchest fans, who see LeBron James as the enemy, will
8:38 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Vince Carter can’t say his 21st NBA season will be his last. At least not yet. Carter signed a one-year veterans minimum contract Friday with the rebuilding Atlanta Hawks, his eighth team, in what could be his final stop before starting a career in broadcasting. It appears to
Aug 23, 2018 LAS VEGAS — The job description never wavers: Stride into a building where thousands of screeching strangers are predisposed to loathe you — even though they have never met you and often don’t know your name. You cannot blend in, attempt to be inconspicuous, because that’s counterintuitive to the job at hand,
6:36 PM ET MVP James Harden says Carmelo Anthony‘s transition to the Houston Rockets will be “a breeze.” “Coming off an MVP season, now you got to add Carmelo Anthony, it’s going to be easy,” Harden said in an interview posted Thursday on The Players’ Tribune. “The transition is easy. When you got that many