The 2023 NBA All-Star Game is set to take place Feb. 19, 2023, at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City. This season’s game marks the 30th anniversary of the first NBA All-Star Game hosted by the Utah Jazz in 1993. NBA All-Star Weekend will tip off Friday, Feb. 17, with the celebrity game and Rising
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10:48 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — After Memphis Grizzlies superstar Ja Morant completed his first triple-double of the season, and the fifth of his career, Sunday evening at Madison Square Garden in a win over the Knicks, he had a problem. Morant, who finished with 27 points, 10 rebounds and a career-high-tying 14
12:44 AM ET Jamal CollierESPN MILWAUKEE — After the Milwaukee Bucks secured a 124-115 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday night, Mavs star Luka Doncic had some high praise for former two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, calling him the best player in the league. “It’s hard to go against a guy like that,” Doncic said.
9:23 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN MINNEAPOLIS — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was not happy when he got slapped with a technical foul in the waning seconds of the Warriors’ 137-114 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves Sunday evening. Green, who finished the game with 19 points and 11 assists for his first double-double of
2:02 AM ET SAN ANTONIO — Russell Westbrook had blood covering his face after taking a flagrant foul to his forehead when LeBron James intervened to pull the Los Angeles Lakers point guard away from the fray and cover the cut with a towel in the third quarter Saturday. It wasn’t the flashiest sequence the
4:46 PM ET NBA draft prospect Victor Wembanyama has captivated the sports world with his incredible physique and exceptional basketball skills. So it’s no surprise the 7-foot-4 forward is projected to go No. 1 overall in next year’s draft. 1 Related Wembanyama was back in action on Saturday, as his Paris-based Metropolitans 92 team faced
7:31 PM ET SAN ANTONIO — Los Angeles Lakers star big man Anthony Davis is sitting out Saturday’s game against the Spurs because of a left calf contusion. “He was kicked at some point in the second half [Friday] night and it’s a little irritated, a little bruising,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said before the
11:35 PM ET Charlotte Hornets forward Gordon Hayward has been diagnosed with a fractured left shoulder and his timeline for a return will be on a week-to-week evaluation, his agent Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports told ESPN on Friday night. Hayward missed eight consecutive games with what was believed to be a shoulder bruise earlier
11:33 PM ET LOS ANGELES — The LA Clippers will continue to be without Kawhi Leonard and Paul George through at least Sunday. Clippers head coach Ty Lue said Leonard, George and Luke Kennard remain out for Sunday’s game against Indiana due to injuries. Lue, though, added that he doesn’t believe the Clippers will be
10:19 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN The New Orleans Pelicans lost forward Brandon Ingram to a sprained left big toe in the second quarter of their 132-111 loss to the host Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night. The Pelicans did not have any updates on Ingram’s injury after the game, but head coach Willie Green said Ingram