11:14 AM ET Nearly two months after declining meetings with other teams and staying with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Paul George said the Los Angeles Lakers were “pissed” they didn’t have the opportunity to make a pitch to him. “L.A. was pissed at me,” he said on the Short Story Long podcast. “I didn’t give
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12:03 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili, a future Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer, is seriously considering retirement and plans to meet with coach Gregg Popovich in the coming days to discuss his future, league sources told ESPN. Ginobili, 41, has been working out regularly at the Spurs practice facility and
8:06 AM ET SHANE LARKIN OPENS his eyes, sits up and embarks on his own tortured version of “Groundhog Day.” He grabs the remote, clicks on SportsCenter and hops out of bed to wait for his “number.” He is 8 years old, and every morning presents a new set of unpredictable parameters that are purely
9:28 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman has been voted BIG3 Coach of the Year after leading her team to the league’s best record and a spot in the championship game in her first season. Lieberman’s team, Power, was the big winner in the awards announced Tuesday, with
2:50 PM ET Brooklyn Nets forward Kenneth Faried was arrested on Sunday for unlawful possession of marijuana, according to the Southampton Town Police Department. Faried was with two other men in a car driving through a DWI sobriety checkpoint in Bridgehampton, New York, at about 1:30 a.m. and police say they smelled “a strong odor
8:16 AM ET THEY LEARNED FROM an early age to keep their heads bowed and their voices low. Around the Erie Avenue row house where Marcus and Markieff Morris grew up in North Philadelphia, eye contact with the wrong person could be misconstrued as a sign of disrespect or, worse, a challenge. “Then, next thing
7:48 PM ET The Toronto Raptors are hiring San Antonio Spurs staffer Jeremy Castleberry — a close friend of Kawhi Leonard — to a position on their coaching staff, league sources told ESPN. Castleberry has worked with Leonard as a Spurs staffer and played with Leonard in high school and at San Diego State, where
2:25 PM ET Already a hot-button issue in the United Kingdom, a controversial bookmaking practice is starting to spread in the U.S.’s growing legal sports betting market, too. Bookmakers from London to Las Vegas are refusing to take bets from a growing number of customers whose only offense might be trying to win. The full
7:53 AM ET LOS ANGELES — I WAS JOSTLING for position with a gaggle of journalists and losing ground, sandwiched four-deep in a sea of bodies during media availability at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles. It was hardly an ideal environment to broach such a sensitive, personal topic as mental health, but
8:10 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Oscar Robertson’s 1971 NBA championship ring has sold for a little more than $91,000 in an auction. The ring the Hall of Fame guard won with Milwaukee for his only NBA title was the top seller from a collection of his items in the Lelands.com 2018 Invitational