12:00 PM ET Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan is expected to meet with two finalists for the franchise’s coaching job this week, including Mike D’Antoni, sources told ESPN. Golden State assistant Kenny Atkinson is set to meet with Jordan on Tuesday, and D’Antoni’s visit is expected later in the week, sources said. Atkinson and D’Antoni
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3:51 PM ET Miami Heat president Pat Riley has no plans of ending his Hall of Fame career any time soon. He made that clear in the midst of his annual end-of-season news conference Monday. “I’m 77 years old and right now I can do more pushups than you can do right now.” Riley said,
8:00 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green faced the marrow-level dread of going down two games to none in the NBA Finals by arriving for Sunday’s Game 2 determined to be annoying as hell for as long as it took. Over the course of the contest’s 48 minutes, he argued with the officials —
2:18 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Eleven seconds into Game 2, Draymond Green tied up Al Horford to force a jump ball before the Golden State Warriors forced a turnover. Green was intent on sending a message, not to the Boston Celtics, but one to his own team. Setting the tone by harassing Celtics ballhandlers
11:58 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry, who said he lost sleep after the Golden State Warriors‘ Game 1 collapse, can toss and turn less when he goes to bed Sunday night following the Warriors’ 107-88 win in Game 2 of the 2022 NBA Finals. Coming off a 34-point outing in Game 1, Curry
12:20 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — The Boston Celtics used a remarkable comeback to overcome their typically disastrous third quarter in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. They had no such luck in Game 2. The Golden State Warriors, powered by a 35-14 third-quarter advantage, blew out Boston on Sunday night, winning 107-88
5:50 PM ET Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder has resigned after eight seasons with the franchise, the team announced Sunday. Jazz ownership and management spent several weeks trying to convince Snyder to return as coach — even offering a contract extension — but he simply decided that his time had come to step away from
7:27 PM ET Amid the reverberations of Quin Snyder’s departure after eight seasons as the Utah Jazz coach, All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell is described as “unsettled, unnerved and wondering what it means for the franchise’s future,” sources told ESPN on Sunday. Mitchell considered Snyder a significant part of his reasoning for committing to a five-year
8:31 PM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri and Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka both spoke out Sunday against the decision by Nigeria’s government to withdraw its basketball teams from international competitions for two years and potentially eliminate any chance of qualifying for the 2024 Olympics. Ujiri and Udoka are
7:52 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Coaches and players from the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics wore orange shirts with the message “End Gun Violence” on the front prior to Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Warriors coach Steve Kerr and Celtics coach Ime Udoka both wore the shirts to their pregame news conferences