9:21 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN INDIANAPOLIS — Stephen Curry was ruled out of the Golden State Warriors‘ 125-119 loss at the Indiana Pacers in the fourth quarter because of a left shoulder injury Wednesday. Curry sustained the injury with 2:04 left in the third quarter after attempting to strip Indiana’s Jalen Smith of the ball
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2:00 PM ET The NBA and its players’ union have agreed to extend the deadline to give notice of plans to opt out of the collective bargaining agreement to Feb. 8, the sides announced in a joint statement Wednesday. Prior to Wednesday’s agreement, the opt-out deadline had been Thursday. Now it falls one day before
8:00 AM ET Picture this: Zion Williamson vs. Ja Morant in this year’s Western Conference finals. The New Orleans Pelicans and Memphis Grizzlies look capable of bringing that showdown to NBA audiences this year with their recent surge to the top of the West standings. Then again, just a few weeks ago, some were quivering
12:19 PM ET ESPN News Services After missing 11 games with a left ankle sprain, Charlotte point guard LaMelo Ball, who has been upgraded to questionable for Wednesday’s game vs. Detroit, is “hopeful” to make his return to the lineup, a source told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Ball will warm up prior to the game to
12:28 AM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — A fan was thrown out of the Golden State Warriors–Milwaukee Bucks game Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum after exchanging words with Draymond Green. As Giannis Antetokounmpo lined up for two free throws with 6:30 left in the third quarter of an eventual 128-111 Bucks win, a fan with
1:17 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Another dramatic chapter was written in the long, storied history of the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics‘ rivalry on Tuesday night. The Celtics won 122-118 in overtime in a game Boston appeared to have no business losing — then no business winning after a wild comeback by L.A.
12:07 AM ET ESPN News Services The Houston Rockets, in the return of coach Stephen Silas on Tuesday night, never trailed in a 111-97 win over the slumping Phoenix Suns. Silas was back after missing the previous game following the death on Sunday of his father, longtime NBA player and coach Paul Silas. “It was
9:10 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN SALT LAKE CITY — The New Orleans Pelicans will be without forward Brandon Ingram for at least another week, team officials said Tuesday. The Pelicans play the Utah Jazz on Tuesday night, the eighth consecutive game Ingram has missed because of a left big toe contusion. During Ingram’s rehabilitating process
2:30 PM ET All struggling fantasy franchises should be asking two questions. 1) What should it take to get Nikola Jokic?2) What would it take to get Jokic? A middling manager should be asking those questions for a simple reason: in theory, rolling the dice on post-New Year Jokic dominance is a sound high-risk/high-upside move.
10:22 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN WHEN WILL HARDY first saw Boston Celtics center Luke Kornet‘s weird trick to contest 3-pointers, he was bemused. “I thought it was absolutely f—ing hilarious,” Hardy, who spent last season as an assistant with the Celtics before becoming head coach of the Utah Jazz this summer, told ESPN. “‘You’re 20