6:55 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA announced Monday evening that Daryl Morey and the Philadelphia 76ers had each been fined $75,000 for a tweet Morey posted last week about Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry. Morey, Philadelphia’s president of basketball operations, was hit with the fine because it violated the league’s anti-tampering rules, which
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5:55 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland Trail Blazers are compiling a list of possible candidates to replace coach Terry Stotts, and general manager Neil Olshey said Monday that he hopes to start conducting a first round of virtual interviews this week. Rumors swirled this weekend about possible candidates after Stotts was
1:50 PM ET Marc J. Spears Golden State Warriors and long-time assistant coach Jarron Collins have mutually agreed to part ways in his quest to pursue head coaching and associate head coach opportunities, he told ESPN’s The Undefeated on Monday. Collins joined the Warriors prior to the team’s 2014-15 NBA championship campaign as a player
3:59 PM ET Associated Press Caron Butler can easily point to the lowest moment in his life – the days he spent as a teenager locked in a solitary confinement cell inside a juvenile prison. The former UConn star and NBA player went to Connecticut’s state Capitol on Monday to ask Gov. Ned Lamont to
7:00 AM ET The opening round of the NBA playoffs is complete. And what a finale it was: a LA Clippers‘ clutch Game 7 performance against Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks sent Kawhi Leonard, Paul George & Co. to a Western Conference semifinals meeting with the Utah Jazz. Before the Clippers and Mavs duked
7:00 AM ET After no first-round series in the Eastern Conference went more than five games, here we are in the second round with two star-studded matchups. Can two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks get past the Brooklyn Nets‘ Big Three of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden? How much will the
10:20 PM ET After a Game 7 win, the head coach or players all talk about a look the team has, a certain look that lets everyone know they’ll be ready for the moment. LA Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said his team looked like it was locked in as it went through a walkthrough before
9:08 PM ET THIS ISN’T WHAT Kristaps Porzingis expected when he arrived in Dallas. As the centerpiece of a blockbuster trade, he anticipated forming one of the NBA’s most potent duos with Luka Doncic, a fellow rising star. Porzingis anticipated it’d be a 1A-1B sort of situation. Doncic has certainly held up his end of
9:40 PM ET Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic made Game 7 history on Sunday afternoon versus the LA Clippers but exited the Staples Center with no satisfaction. Doncic scored or assisted on 77 points against the Clippers, the most in NBA history by a player in a Game 7, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
6:27 PM ET LOS ANGELES — As a 19-point fourth-quarter lead shrunk to seven with two minutes to go and anxiety began to spread at Staples Center, Kawhi Leonard got the kind of help he did not get last year in Game 7. Leonard hit Reggie Jackson and Marcus Morris Sr. for two straight 3-pointers