11:30 AM ET As Kevin Durant and his father, Wayne Pratt, parted Saturday morning in Cleveland after an all-night celebration, Durant drew Pratt close and cited a statistic he had seen pairing Durant and Michael Jordan as two of the only players with four scoring titles and two Finals MVP awards. “Who would have imagined
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10:15 AM ET In the closing seconds of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, a giddy Draymond Green and Kevin Durant stood near the Golden State Warriors‘ bench, high-fiving each other uncontrollably. The All-Star forwards have a personal ritual of double-tapping on high-fives after one of them makes a good play, thus the continuous slapping
2:00 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The Toronto Raptors are hiring assistant Nick Nurse to become the franchise’s new head coach, league sources told ESPN. Draft picks: NoneProjected Cap Space: $0DeMar DeRozan: Under team control through 2019-20 (player option for 2020-21)Kyle Lowry: Signed through 2019-20Serge Ibaka: Signed through 2019-20Jonas Valanciunas: Under team control through 2018-19 (player
1:47 PM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman openly wept on television in a live interview from Singapore on Tuesday as President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un met for the first time. Rodman also told The Associated Press that he hopes to soon visit the White House. The
8:34 AM ET Mohamed Bamba won’t be the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft — the Phoenix Suns have all but assured Deandre Ayton of that honor — but it won’t be for lack of effort. Perhaps the most enigmatic prospect in this class, Bamba theoretically ticks every box NBA teams are looking for
9:58 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Jerry Stackhouse has agreed to a deal to join J.B. Bickerstaff’s coaching staff with the Memphis Grizzlies, league sources told ESPN. Stackhouse emerged as a head-coaching candidate this spring, interviewing for jobs with New York and Toronto. Stackhouse comes to the Grizzlies after leading the Toronto 905 to consecutive G
8:35 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Mohamed Bamba could be the next Rudy Gobert, and that’s why he’s expected to go very high in the NBA draft. The towering 7-footer from Harlem, who played his one collegiate season at Texas, worked out individually with Phoenix on Saturday. He was the third player to do
Jun 6, 2018 LeBron James has made eight consecutive NBA Finals appearances, with the past four as a member with his original team, the Cleveland Cavaliers. The 2018 NBA Finals ended in a sweep against the Golden State Warriors, marking the first time that a James team was swept since the 2007 NBA Finals. Game
2:54 PM ET The Golden State Warriors swept the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night, resulting in their third championship in four years. Following the 108-85 Game 4 victory, several NBA players took to Twitter to express their opinion on the latest Golden State title, LeBron James‘ future in free agency and if Kevin Durant or
12:59 PM ET CLEVELAND — Before the Hamptons, before light-years ahead, and before Jurassic basketball thinkers had to concede that a small team could actually win an NBA championship with jump-shooting, finesse and defense, nobody spoke of the Golden State Warriors as a squad with multiple Hall of Famers, let alone one. The Warriors are