Jamal Collier, ESPNJan 19, 2024, 07:36 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHICAGO — Bulls guard Zach LaVine will miss at least one week with a sprained right ankle, the team announced Friday. LaVine injured his ankle in the third quarter of Thursday’s win over the Toronto Raptors and immediately removed himself from the game. In
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Associated Press Jan 19, 2024, 10:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MIAMI — Udonis Haslem averaged 7.5 points and 6.6 rebounds in his career. He never made an All-Star team. Never had a triple-double. Never signed anything close to a max contract. He never even won a player of the week award. The stats might
Steve Alexander Jan 19, 2024, 02:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Several unexpected players have been returning surprisingly solid fantasy value over the last two weeks while some huge names have been letting their fantasy managers down by struggling in multiple fantasy categories along the way. Isaiah Hartenstein, Vince Williams Jr., Devin Vassell and Derrick
Tim Bontemps, ESPNJan 19, 2024, 08:03 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Houston Rockets have entered what the franchise calls “Phase 2” of its rebuild. Phase 1, which began in the wake of trading superstar guard James Harden to the Brooklyn Nets on Jan. 14, 2021, saw the Rockets go an NBA-worst 56-171 from the
Associated Press Jan 18, 2024, 08:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TORONTO — Raptors president Masai Ujiri said Thursday that the health status of former Toronto center Christian Koloko “is in the hands of the NBA.” Later Thursday, The Athletic reported that Koloko is suffering from a blood clot issue and has been referred to
Andre Snellings, ESPNJan 18, 2024, 03:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Nearly two years ago the Minnesota Timberwolves traded a raft of assets and draft picks to the Utah Jazz in exchange for Rudy Gobert. I immediately predicted huge success and tweeted it, wrote it in articles and went on the radio to shout my
Tim Bontemps, ESPNJan 18, 2024, 02:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions As they have from the start of All-Star voting earlier this month, Giannis Antetokounmpo and LeBron James led their respective conferences ahead of next month’s All-Star Game, as the third and final set of fan results were announced Thursday afternoon. Voting wraps up Saturday,
Jim McCormick, Special to ESPN.comJan 15, 2024, 01:00 PM ET Close Jim McCormick is a fantasy football and fantasy basketball analyst for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions Working the waiver wire is pivotal to succeeding in fantasy basketball. With so many games, injuries and endless shifts in rotations throughout the marathon campaign, we’ll need to source
Brian Windhorst, ESPN Senior WriterJan 18, 2024, 07:17 AM ET Close ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Open Extended Reactions Few can do a stolid face better than Frank Vogel. The set jaw, mouth turned down at the corners giving off both impassivity and resolve. The
Tim MacMahon, ESPN Staff WriterJan 17, 2024, 09:37 PM ET Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Police in Newport Beach, California, will not pursue charges against Oklahoma City Thunder guard Josh Giddey after closing an investigation into allegations that he had