2:00 PM ET Working the waiver wire is pivotal to succeeding in fantasy basketball. With so many games, injuries and endless shifts in rotations throughout the marathon campaign, we’ll need to source stats from free agency to maximize imaginary rosters. A willingness to entertain competition for the last few spots on your fantasy hoops roster
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8:00 AM ET With one week to go in the NBA’s regular season, only three postseason seeds are locked in: The Phoenix Suns will have the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs, the Memphis Grizzlies will have the second and the LA Clippers are locked into eighth. The other 17 seeds remain up for
9:20 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN As the Kings prepared to host the Warriors on Sunday night, coaches Alvin Gentry and Steve Kerr addressed the mass shooting just blocks from Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center that left six people dead and injured a dozen others early Sunday morning. “It’s an incredible tragedy,” Gentry said during his pregame
10:23 PM ET LOS ANGELES — After the Lakers continued their free fall from play-in tournament contention with a sixth straight loss on Sunday, Anthony Davis looked back at a season gone awry and reflected on what “could have been.” “I think the biggest thing that I think about personally is what we could have
11:32 PM ET ESPN News Services CLEVELAND — Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid says he doesn’t know what else he has to do to win MVP this season after scoring 44 points in a 112-108 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday night. He also made 17 free throws, added 17 rebounds and 5 blocks,
1:10 AM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN Draymond Green had never experienced a midseason injury like the one to his lower back in early January. He had never missed such a long stretch of games and had never had to work his way back with games still going on. So coming off his two-month layoff, he struggled.
10:34 PM ET ESPN News Services CLEVELAND — Joel Embiid did plenty of damage on his own. The Cavaliers, though, felt the big man got some unwarranted help. Cleveland coach J.B. Bickerstaff was highly critical of the officiating after Embiid scored 44 points — and made 20 trips to the free-throw line — in the
4:34 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar publicly criticized LeBron James once again Sunday, with the Los Angeles Lakers legend saying he believes the current Lakers star has a greater responsibility in how he conducts himself given his elevated platform. “Some of the things he’s done and said are really beneath him, as far
1:57 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James will miss Sunday’s game against the Denver Nuggets with a sore left ankle, coach Frank Vogel told reporters. Vogel said James is considered day-to-day going forward. Anthony Davis will play his second straight game since returning to the lineup Friday after more than six weeks out
5:53 PM ET Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra has been placed in health and safety protocols and will miss Sunday’s game against the Raptors in Toronto. Assistant coach Chris Quinn will replace Spoelstra. Jimmy Butler (toe), Dewayne Dedmon (ankle), Gabe Vincent (toe) and P.J. Tucker (knee) were also ruled out. The game marks Heat