12:00 AM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Butler left the Miami Heat‘s 120-117 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night with a sprained right ankle. Butler scored seven points while playing the entire first quarter, but the Heat ruled him out for the rest of the game. Butler began the
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12:24 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Warriors forward Draymond Green suffered a right thigh contusion in the third quarter of Wednesday’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves and was ruled out for the rest of Golden State’s 123-110 win. “He got a quad contusion that was pretty nasty,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after the game.
3:52 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra had no interest in rehashing Monday’s on-court incident involving his team and the Denver Nuggets, or the subsequent penalties handed down by the NBA on Tuesday. “I’m done talking about it,” Spoelstra said Wednesday after his team’s shootaround in advance of Miami’s game against
8:00 AM ET JALEN GREEN HEARS the wrath from the old man with the unmistakable, raspy voice. It’s a little less than an hour before the Rockets’ shootaround begins, but almost half the roster is already on the Footprint Center floor in Phoenix, running three-man pick-and-roll drills. John Lucas, the Rockets’ 68-year-old assistant coach, provides
9:59 PM ET Denver Nuggets star and reigning MVP Nikola Jokic has been suspended for one game without pay for forcefully pushing Miami Heat forward Markieff Morris in the back on Monday night. The Nuggets will not have their franchise center against Indiana on Wednesday Markieff Morris was also fined $50,000 for his flagrant two
4:49 PM ET Three former Phoenix Suns employees have received messages from Penny Sarver, the wife of Robert Sarver, who is the team’s majority owner. Two messages came from the @pennsar Instagram account and another was a text message from a number that belongs to Penny Sarver. These former employees say they consider the messages
11:55 AM ET Kelly CohenESPN Add prophet to Candace Parker‘s resume, which got a little more stacked a few weeks ago when she won the 2021 WNBA championship with the Chicago Sky. The basketball great — who also is an analyst on TNT — was able to look into a crystal ball Monday night and
1:11 PM ET Emotions from NBA MVP Nikola Jokic‘s retaliatory bodycheck from behind on Miami Heat forward Markieff Morris on Monday night have spilled onto social media as the brothers of both players weighed in. As the league looks into whether to levy any further punishment over the Denver Nuggets star’s ejection after his run-in
10:00 AM ET The statistical story of Monday in the NBA was Stephen Curry delivering 50 points while propelling the Golden State Warriors to a 9-1 record in a win over the Atlanta Hawks. At 33 years, 240 days old, Curry became the oldest player with at least 50 points and 10 assists in a
12:41 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Warriors star guard Stephen Curry scored an NBA-season-high 50 points in Golden State’s 127-113 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night. Curry finished the night 14-for-28 from the field, 9-for-19 from 3-point range and 13-for-13 from the free throw line, while chipping in 10 assists and seven rebounds