5:56 PM ET LOS ANGELES — LA Clippers guard Paul George was ruled out for the Monday game against the Utah Jazz due to a right hamstring strain. George played one half and scored 21 points before being held out of the second half of the win Saturday over the Spurs due to what the
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2:52 PM ET Anthony OlivieriESPN.com A basketball trainer who previously worked with Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and other NBA stars was arrested Friday in Rhode Island on a fugitive-from-justice charge stemming from a warrant for rape and drugging for intercourse in an alleged incident in downtown Boston. Rob McClanaghan, 43, was taken into custody without
10:41 PM ET LOS ANGELES — San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich sat out Sunday’s 123-92 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers because of an illness, according to the team. Assistant coach Brett Brown, the former longtime coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, filled in for Popovich. “At this stage, I don’t have a lot of
11:56 PM ET DALLAS — Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic swished a step-back 3-pointer from the left wing to beat the halftime buzzer, did a little shimmy dance on the sideline and briskly jogged into the locker room with his team holding a seven-point lead over the Denver Nuggets. Doncic and the Mavericks found out minutes
2:02 PM ET ESPN News Services Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard will be reevaluated in one to two weeks because of a Grade 1 strain to the soleus muscle in his right lower leg, the team said on Sunday. Lillard left Saturday’s 118-113 loss to the Utah Jazz because of tightness in his right
11:15 PM ET NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving said he “never had a doubt” he would return to the team after serving an eight-game suspension for what the Nets termed the “harmful impact of his conduct” relating to social media posts around a book and movie that contained antisemitic ideas. Irving, who
2:16 AM ET LOS ANGELES — In mid-December of last season, after Anthony Davis suffered a left knee injury that would sideline him for more than a month, LeBron James immediately upped his scoring average to try to make up for the big man’s absence. James reeled off seven straight games of 30-plus points, and
11:43 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — Kyrie Irving returned from his eight-game suspension Sunday night at Barclays Center for the Brooklyn Nets against the Memphis Grizzlies, but it was Ben Simmons who was the star of the show on the court. Playing alongside Irving and Kevin Durant for just the seventh time, Simmons
11:57 AM ET NEW YORK — Kyrie Irving‘s eight-game suspension is over. The Brooklyn Nets guard has been cleared to play and will start Sunday night against the Memphis Grizzlies. It will mark his first game since he was suspended Nov. 3 for “harmful impact of his conduct” relating to social media posts around a
2:02 PM ET ESPN News Services Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard will miss “hopefully just a game or two” with a calf injury, a source told Andscape’s Marc J. Spears. Lillard left Saturday’s loss to the Utah Jazz because of tightness in his right calf. He has already missed five games this season with