3:20 PM ET Jamal CollierESPN MILWAUKEE — Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo (back) did not practice on Tuesday, but coach Mike Budenholzer said the team was still feeling optimistic about his status for Game 2 on Wednesday night. “We have 24-plus hours before game time,” Budenholzer said Tuesday. “He’ll get treatment, we’ll see how he feels.
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3:50 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Grizzlies All-Star point guard Ja Morant will be a game-time decision for Wednesday’s Game 2 against the Los Angeles Lakers because of bruising in his right hand, coach Taylor Jenkins said Tuesday. X-rays after the Grizzlies’ loss in Game 1 on Sunday were negative. An MRI on Monday revealed
3:39 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro says he will undergo surgery Friday for his broken right hand and likely won’t return this postseason unless his team wins the Eastern Conference title. Herro said Tuesday that the injury requires four to six weeks of recovery. The conference finals start in
1:52 PM ET Purdue center Zach Edey, the consensus national player of the year in men’s college basketball, announced Tuesday that he plans to enter the NBA draft while maintaining his college eligibility. Edey has until May 31 if he wants to withdraw from the draft and return to the Boilermakers for his senior season.
8:47 AM ET Associated Press Two clubs have been kicked out of China’s basketball league amid suspicions of match-fixing. The ruling came after the Chinese Basketball Association judged the Jiangsu Dragons and Shanghai Sharks engaged in unsportsmanlike conduct during a playoff series last week. They will also be suspended from this year’s regular season, fined
8:00 AM ET AS THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS play in their first playoffs since LeBron James skipped town for the second time in 2018, they do so knowing the impact the franchise icon created for the organization. They know they are writing a chapter in the history book James authored so much in. The shadow is
9:06 PM ET Former Notre Dame men’s basketball coach Mike Brey will join coach Quin Snyder’s staff on the Atlanta Hawks next season, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. No specific role has been finalized, nor will it be until after this season, sources tell Wojnarowski. Brey, who has a 30-year history with Snyder, visited with
12:53 AM ET ESPN News Services SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was ejected from a playoff game after stomping on the chest of Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis. The play happened in the fourth quarter of Game 2 of the first-round playoff series Monday night after Stephen Curry grabbed a defensive
12:34 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — It took all of 61 seconds in the third quarter Monday night for Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers to decide he had seen enough. After watching his team fail to properly run a play he drew up coming out of the halftime break — which followed a lackadaisical
7:11 PM ET MEMPHIS — Memphis Grizzlies power forward/center Jaren Jackson Jr. became the second-youngest Defensive Player of the Year winner in NBA history. The league announced Monday evening that Jackson, 23, won the honor, finishing ahead of Cleveland’s Evan Mobley and Milwaukee’s Brook Lopez in voting by a media panel. Jackson joins Alvin Robertson,