6:41 PM ET Miami’s Erik Spoelstra will coach Team Durant in the NBA All-Star Game after the Heat clinched the best record in the Eastern Conference through Sunday, which was the cutoff. This will be Spoelstra’s second stint as a head coach in the All-Star Game, having also coached the Eastern Conference in 2013. The
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3:48 PM ET Jamal CollierESPN Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan said there’s a “very strong possibility” forward Patrick Williams will play again this season. Williams started the first five games this season before suffering a left wrist injury, which required surgery in October to repair torn ligaments. The Bulls did not rule him out from
2:30 AM ET LOS ANGELES — For the second time this season, Russell Westbrook was benched by Lakers coach Frank Vogel to close out a game. Only this time, the Lakers won, beating the New York Knicks 122-115 in overtime on Saturday. And the result made all the difference to Westbrook in accepting the decision.
4:13 PM ET ESPN News Services LeBron James, who has missed the Los Angeles Lakers‘ past five games with swelling in his left knee, returned to the starting lineup against the New York Knicks on Saturday night. Prior to the game, coach Frank Vogel said James would be a gametime decision. He was officially listed
4:13 PM ET ESPN News Services LeBron James, who has missed the Los Angeles Lakers‘ past five games with swelling in his left knee, could return tonight against the New York Knicks (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC), coach Frank Vogel said. James will go through a pregame warmup to determine if he is ready to return.
4:34 PM ET PLAYA VISTA, Calif. — Before the LA Clippers began their practice Saturday morning, Paul George was on one end of the gym taking shots with his left hand. The star guard has been out since Dec. 22 with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right shooting elbow, missing 22 straight games.
2:17 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Veteran center Greg Monroe is back with the Milwaukee Bucks on a 10-day contract. Monroe, 31, played 165 games for the Bucks from 2015 to 2017. He played five games earlier this season with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Washington Wizards while on 10-day contracts with each of those
1:47 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving doesn’t want his team getting too down on itself despite the fact it has now dropped a season-high seven straight games after an embarrassing 125-102 loss to the Utah Jazz on Friday night. As the losses pile up, skepticism around the league grows
2:56 PM ET The LA Clippers are trading Eric Bledsoe, Justise Winslow, Keon Johnson and a future second-round pick to the Portland Trail Blazers for Norman Powell and Robert Covington, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The pick the Clippers are sending out is a 2025 second-round pick via the Detroit Pistons, sources tell ESPN. The
2:29 PM ET SALT LAKE CITY — Brooklyn Nets guard James Harden will not play in Friday night’s game against the Utah Jazz because of left hamstring tightness, the team announced. Harden missed a Jan. 26 loss to the Denver Nuggets because of the same injury. Nets coach Steve Nash said after Wednesday’s loss to