1:44 AM ET GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Kentucky’s Kevin Knox was booed by some New York Knicks fans at the NBA draft after the team selected him with the ninth pick Thursday night. But the negative reaction didn’t seem to bother him. Knox, 18, noted that fans also booed current Knicks star Kristaps Porzingis on draft
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1:25 AM ET BOSTON — Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge unknowingly tipped the team’s first-round selection of Texas A&M big man Robert Williams when point guard Terry Rozier called him during a live webcast. Rozier was appearing on Bleacher Report’s online draft show when he was asked to predict Boston’s pick at
4:53 PM ET The Los Angeles Lakers contacted the San Antonio Spurs after Kawhi Leonard‘s public trade request last week but immediately felt the Spurs had no intention of engaging in any dialogue, sources close to the situation told ESPN. As one Lakers source put it, “They basically shut the door on us.” No players
12:27 AM ET The Memphis Grizzlies are in discussions with a number of teams to trade the No. 4 pick in Thursday’s NBA draft, league sources tell ESPN. Any such trade would likely include forward Chandler Parsons, whose contract is considered an albatross because of his knee problems. The Grizzlies have several potential trade partners,
9:10 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN New York Knicks center Kyle O’Quinn has declined the $4.2 million contract for the 2018-19 season to become an unrestricted free agent this summer, league sources told ESPN. O’Quinn, 28, had his best NBA season for the Knicks and should be among the better back-up centers available in the summer
3:22 PM ET NEW YORK — Deandre Ayton was asked Wednesday to define what success in the NBA looks like to him. “Definitely getting to my second contract; that’s my success,” Ayton said at media availability for top lottery picks. Ayton, a 7-foot-1 big man from Arizona, is widely expected to be the top player
8:00 AM ET MO BAMBA SITS on the sideline inside the gym at St. Bernard High School in Playa del Rey, California, and stares intently into his phone, which is on selfie mode. He cradles the device between his thighs, watching himself in his digital mirror, as he inserts into his right eye a contact
12:09 AM ET Ramona Shelburne Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Adrian Wojnarowski San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich traveled Tuesday to Southern California and met with Kawhi Leonard prior to Thursday’s NBA draft, league sources told ESPN. For weeks, Popovich has been working
4:24 PM ET ESPN News Services MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown sued the city of Milwaukee and its police department Tuesday, saying officers’ use of a stun gun during his arrest for a parking violation constitutes excessive force and that they targeted him because he is black. Brown’s attorney Mark Thomsen filed the
Jun 17, 2018 Trae Young might be the most fascinating prospect in this year’s NBA draft. Young’s freshman season at Oklahoma, which saw him lead the NCAA in both scoring and assists per game, was unlike anything we’ve seen in modern college basketball. (No player had done so since 1983-84, when the NCAA resumed officially