8:09 PM ET Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker has been ruled out for Game 5 of the team’s first-round playoff series against the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday because of his right hamstring strain. The series is tied 2-2. It will be the third consecutive game Booker has missed since he suffered the injury in
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5:24 PM ET In a meeting with Brooklyn Nets leadership on Monday afternoon, Ben Simmons and Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul spoke about the physical and mental hurdles remaining in the All-Star’s pursuit of a return to play, a discussion that made clear to the participants a need to keep addressing the mental side of
5:56 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Chicago Bulls guard Alex Caruso is in the NBA’s concussion protocol and is questionable for Game 5 of the first-round playoff series at Milwaukee, coach Billy Donovan said Monday. The Bucks lead 3-1 and will try to wrap up the series at home on Wednesday. Milwaukee won the
7:13 PM ET A former Phoenix Suns ticket manager has pleaded guilty to illicitly selling more than 2,800 of the team’s tickets through a third party from 2017 to 2019 and agreed to pay $458,218 to the team in restitution, according to a plea agreement filed in Maricopa County Superior Court. Jeffrey Marcussen, who worked
1:41 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins has been fined $15,000 for publicly criticizing the officiating in Game 4 of the Grizzlies’ series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the NBA announced Monday. Jenkins made his comments to the media following the Grizzlies’ 119-118 loss Saturday in Minneapolis. “I’ve never seen a
11:53 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — The Toronto Raptors will be without All-Star point guard Fred VanVleet for Game 5 of their first-round series against the Philadelphia 76ers — and likely longer — with a left hip flexor strain. “You can stop holding your breath,” VanVleet said with a wry smile after plopping himself
1:17 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers star center Joel Embiid was fined $15,000 for criticizing the officiating in Saturday’s Game 4 loss to the Toronto Raptors. Embiid, who is dealing with a right thumb sprain, gave an extended golf clap to the officiating crew of Scott Foster, Ed Malloy and Rodney Mott on his way off
8:30 AM ET Ben Dowsett With 53 seconds left in the fourth quarter and his Atlanta Hawks on the brink of elimination, Onyeka Okongwu makes a game-saving defensive play against the Cleveland Cavaliers. After helping his team erase a 10-point halftime deficit while filling in for injured starter Clint Capela, Okongwu is assigned to Cavs
8:00 AM ET AN EIGHT- OR nine-figure subplot hovers over Jalen Brunson‘s star rise during these NBA playoffs. Brunson, the other guard the Dallas Mavericks landed in the 2018 draft, is poised to enter unrestricted free agency this summer. Suffice it to say that the price to retain his services, a priority for the Mavs,
2:16 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — Normally low-key by design, Phoenix Suns coach Monty Williams had cutting remarks about the officiating after the New Orleans Pelicans took Game 4 on Sunday to even the first-round series at 2-2. The Pelicans shot 42 free throws to the Suns’ 15 and it was a 17-2 disparity in