6:01 PM ET Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro underwent surgery to repair his right hand on Friday. The Heat said Herro will be sidelined a minimum of six weeks. Herro underwent a 90-minute procedure to fix the third and fourth metacarpal on his right hand. Editor’s Picks Herro sustained the injury in the second quarter
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3:42 PM ET NEW YORK — Donovan Mitchell still remembers the noise. As a young fan sitting inside Madison Square Garden during a playoff game years ago, he was watching the New York Knicks, his hometown team, play on the game’s biggest stage. On Friday, before a pivotal Game 3 (the series is tied 1-1;
4:36 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers gave an impassioned speech Friday in defense of Joel Embiid‘s kick at Brooklyn Nets center Nic Claxton, saying the NBA needs to do something about teams trying to goad star players into retaliatory actions during games. “I’m gonna say this, and I
Apr 14, 2023 Andre SnellingsESPN Dillon Brooks poked the bear. He called LeBron James old, said he doesn’t respect him and won’t respect him until LeBron scores 40 points on him. On Friday, Caesars Sportsbook set the line at LeBron scoring 40-plus points for Saturday’s Game 3 showdown against the Grizzlies at +650. A compelling
8:00 AM ET IT’S MARCH 31 and the revitalized New York Knicks are in Cleveland to face the equally upstart Cavaliers. The stakes are high. New York, at 44-33, sits four games behind the Cavs in fifth place in the Eastern Conference standings. But tonight’s showdown offers more than just another checkmark at the end
12:00 PM ET KARL ANTHONY-TOWNS backed down Aaron Gordon in the post, as Jamal Murray was lurking with an eye locked on the Minnesota big man the entire possession. The moment Towns went to pass out of the ensuing double-team by Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Murray jumped the passing lane, intercepted the ball and slammed down a
9:46 AM ET Nick Nurse is out after five seasons as Toronto Raptors coach, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Friday. Former Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka is expected to be a serious candidate to replace Nurse, sources said. The move comes after Raptors president Masai Ujiri and Nurse met several times since their season
3:44 AM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — With Draymond Green serving a one-game suspension and the Golden State Warriors down 0-2 in their first-round playoff series against the Sacramento Kings, they had a clear mindset: Don’t feel sorry for ourselves. “We’re winning this because of Draymond,” Donte DiVincenzo told ESPN before Thursday’s Game 3,
4:03 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Devin Booker has been a good scorer since he came into the league in 2016. But he has taken it to another level since Kevin Durant joined the Phoenix Suns in February. Booker scored a game-high 45 points on a blistering 18-for-29 shooting (62 percent) in the Suns’ 129-124
8:28 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid received a flagrant foul 1 after kicking Brooklyn Nets center Nic Claxton in the first quarter of Thursday night’s game at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Claxton fouled Embiid less than three minutes into Game 3 of the first-round series, and then stepped