10:07 PM ET William E. Ricks NBA draft prospect Victor Wembanyama continues to captivate the basketball world. The 7-foot-4 forward with an 8-foot wingspan showed during his latest game why he is projected to go No. 1 overall in the upcoming draft. Editor’s Picks Wembanyama’s Metropolitans 92 team faced Fos-sur-Mer in LNB Betclic Elite action,
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3:21 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Phoenix Suns forward Cameron Johnson is expected to make his return from a knee injury on Thursday against the Brooklyn Nets. Johnson’s return would be welcome good news for the Suns, who have been decimated by injuries and have fallen to 21-24 for the season, which ranks 12th
10:15 PM ET HOUSTON — Charlotte Hornets point guard LaMelo Ball left Wednesday night’s 122-117 win over the Houston Rockets after spraining his left ankle again. Ball was injured when teammate P.J. Washington landed on him after jumping to try for a rebound with about nine minutes left in the third quarter. Ball appeared to
9:20 PM ET ESPN staff The sideline of No. 10 Virginia‘s 78-68 win over Virginia Tech was full of familiar faces. Editor’s Picks A handful of Golden State Warriors players, fresh off of their trip to the White House, trekked to Charlottesville to catch the action. Ty Jerome, a 2019 National Champion with the Cavaliers,
4:34 PM ET Andre SnellingsESPN The NBA Pacific Division is fascinating from a futures perspective. Last season, this division gave us the team with the best record in the NBA in the Suns, whose 64-18 record was a full eight games better than any other team in the NBA and 11 games better than the
1:06 PM ET Connor O’Halloran Joakim Noah takes just seconds to cast his mind back and remembers his first time seeing an NBA team. It was 1997, and the Chicago Bulls were in Paris for the McDonald’s Championship, a tournament that brought together the best teams from various parts of the world to face off
7:20 AM ET THE ATLANTA HAWKS were on the clock with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2018 draft when owner Mark Cuban stepped into the hallway outside the Dallas Mavericks‘ draft room and made a phone call. Cuban reached out to Tony Ressler, the Hawks’ principal owner. Donnie Nelson and Travis Schlenk, who
7:33 AM ET For as much as Luka Doncic does for his team on the court, his team does that much less when he’s not on the court. The Dallas Mavericks have recentered themselves in the Western Conference playoff picture courtesy of their young superstar, but they have failed to gain momentum despite Doncic’s nightly
1:18 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Cavaliers star guard Donovan Mitchell will miss Cleveland’s game at Memphis on Wednesday night with a strained left groin. Mitchell, who is averaging 28.4 points in his first season for Cleveland, got hurt Monday in the third quarter of a 113-103 win over New Orleans. He was
1:41 PM ET Associated Press Chris Ford, a member of the Boston Celtics 1981 championship team, a longtime NBA coach and the player credited with scoring the league’s first 3-point basket, has died, his family announced in a statement. He was 74. The family revealed the death through the Celtics on Wednesday. No official cause