5:38 PM ET The Brooklyn Nets were fined $50,000 for allowing Kyrie Irving to enter the team’s locker room during halftime of Sunday’s 110-107 win at Barclays Center. Irving, who is unvaccinated, was allowed to attend Sunday’s home game as a spectator for the first time this season. However the league said in a statement
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4:56 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green is set to return for the Golden State Warriors on Monday against the Washington Wizards in Chase Center after missing the past two months with a lower back injury. Green said he expects to play with a 20- to 23-minute restriction for the next 10
10:14 PM ET Associated Press Stephen Curry is heading back to Japan, Rui Hachimura is going home and the NBA is planning to take another step toward normalcy. The NBA announced Monday night that Golden State and Washington will be headed to Saitama, Japan, for the first two games of the 2022 preseason schedule. The
8:45 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN To celebrate his 34th birthday, Stephen Curry surprised thousands of owners of his first NFT collection with a new birthday cake-themed NFT in their crypto wallets on Monday afternoon. Just three days after his record-breaking game at Madison Square Garden in December, in which Curry set the NBA’s all-time 3-point
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8:00 AM ET As college basketball prepares to kick off the men’s and women’s tournaments this week, the NBA is quietly entering the home stretch of the regular season. And while the Phoenix Suns have run away with the Western Conference, the Golden State Warriors trail the Memphis Grizzlies by just half a game —
2:01 AM ET PHOENIX — LeBron James created a statistical category all to himself Sunday, becoming the first player in league history to reach the 10,000 plateau in points, rebounds and assists in the Los Angeles Lakers‘ 140-111 loss to the Phoenix Suns. “To now sit alone at a statistical category in this league that
9:16 PM ET Milwaukee Bucks center Brook Lopez — out with a back injury since opening night — will make his return to the lineup against the Utah Jazz on Monday night, the team announced. Lopez’s return fortifies the Bucks’ front line as the franchise prepares for the Eastern Conference playoffs and the chance to
9:17 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN The game between the Memphis Grizzlies and Oklahoma City Thunder was briefly delayed on Sunday night when both teams came out for the opening tip in white jerseys. As confused players stood around on the court, team officials gathered with the referees to determine the root of the problem. Lead
9:03 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — On the day Kevin Garnett saw his No. 5 raised to the rafters at TD Garden, he officially buried his beef with Ray Allen. As part of the ceremony celebrating Garnett’s six years with the franchise, he singled out Allen — who was sitting in the front row