12:01 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Memphis Grizzlies forward Dillon Brooks earned a premature exit in Saturday’s Game 3 for poking the bear below the belt. Brooks was called for a flagrant 2 only 17 seconds into the second half after he swiped his left hand into LeBron James‘ groin area as the Los Angeles
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12:35 AM ET Jamal CollierESPN MIAMI — Despite a 121-99 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 3 on Saturday night, the mood in the Miami Heat‘s locker room after the game was subdued while the team awaited test results from a knee injury to guard Victor Oladipo. Oladipo was helped off the court during
9:11 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Memphis Grizzlies superstar Ja Morant will play in Game 3, the team announced an hour before tip-off at Crypto.com Arena. Morant, who was sidelined in Game 2 due to a bruised right hand, was a full participant in Friday’s practice and Saturday’s shootaround. Morant first hurt the hand during
8:55 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Chris Paul took a seat next to Kevin Durant after the Phoenix Suns grabbed a commanding 3-1 series lead over the LA Clippers on Saturday afternoon with a 112-100 win at Crypto.com Arena and took stock of his new place in the NBA landscape. “I’ve never played with this
9:15 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Russell Westbrook took an inbound pass along the baseline, squared up and stared at Kevin Durant before attacking and scoring a hard-earned driving layup on the Phoenix Suns star. Westbrook did everything he could for the LA Clippers in the fourth quarter, scoring 14 of his 37 points in
6:15 PM ET Jamal CollierESPN MIAMI — Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo will miss his second straight game with a lower back contusion after he was ruled out for Game 3 against the Miami Heat on Saturday night. Antetokounmpo has not played since Sunday, when he injured his back falling to the ground after a
6:50 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green being forced to watch his team play a playoff game from afar isn’t new to him. He had to do it in 2016 as the Golden State Warriors played Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers. He watched that game from the
3:16 PM ET Kimesha Williams, the sister of LA Clippers star Kawhi Leonard, was one of two women sentenced to life without parole for the murder of an elderly woman in a Temecula, California, casino bathroom in 2019. Williams and Candace Townsell were accused of following 84-year-old Afaf Assad into a bathroom at Pechanga Resort
12:24 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers said his message to both injured superstar Joel Embiid and the rest of his team ahead of Game 4 of their first-round series with the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center was the same: dealing with Embiid’s latest postseason injury is just another
7:13 AM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Is Dillon Brooks just asking to get cooked in Game 3? After Game 2, when the Memphis Grizzlies evened their NBA playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers with a 103-93 win, Brooks, who said LeBron James called him “dumb” for picking up his fourth foul, then Brooks called James