1:40 AM ET ESPN News Services SALT LAKE CITY — NBA games are usually full of chatter on the court. But some of the things the Sacramento Kings said to Joe Ingles made Donovan Mitchell take notice. Ingles can talk trash with the best of them, and it gets him going, but Mitchell turned his
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7:29 PM ET Former major league slugger Alex Rodriguez and billionaire Marc Lore are finalizing a deal to purchase the Minnesota Timberwolves from majority owner Glen Taylor, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Saturday. Taylor will continue to hold full control of the team for two years before Rodriguez and Lore take over in 2023.
9:08 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers superstar Anthony Davis will be re-evaluated by team doctors in L.A. this week and could return to play in the next 10 to 14 days and LeBron James could be right behind him, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Davis, out since Feb. 14 with a calf strain and tendinosis
10:47 PM ET Kyrie Irving, a 10-year veteran, and Dennis Schroder, an eight-year pro, came into Saturday’s prime-time matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets having each played more than 500 career games without an ejection. That changed for both of them in the third quarter. The pair of point guards exchanged words
10:17 AM ET Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant is no longer driven by championships. After all, he has won two. Instead, he says it’s the desire to be at his best that fuels him. “I wasn’t expecting to be a happy human being from a title,” Durant told ESPN’s Rachel Nichols in an interview that
10:54 AM ET Vanderbilt sophomore guard Scotty Pippen Jr. has declared for the 2021 NBA draft but will retain his college eligibility, he announced on social media Saturday. Pippen, the son of the Chicago Bulls Hall of Famer, led the Commodores in scoring (20.8 PPG), assists (4.9 APG) and steals (1.8 SPG) last season. “We
12:18 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — All it took for the Boston Celtics to end their season-long seven-game homestand with a victory Friday night was a 17-point comeback to force overtime, and the best game of Jayson Tatum‘s career. The 23-year-old All-Star finished with a career-high 53 points — including 35 points in the
12:27 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Pelicans‘ experiments with Zion Williamson as their primary ball handler this season have mostly been relegated to him getting a rebound and pushing it up or the team going with it off of dead balls and free throws. But Friday night against the Philadelphia
10:42 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — Trae Young scored 42 points to help the Atlanta Hawks overcome a sizzling performance by Zach LaVine to beat the Chicago Bulls 120-108 on Friday night. LaVine scored 39 of his career-high 50 points in the first half, and Nikola Vucevic had 25 points and 10 rebounds
8:55 PM ET The LA Clippers‘ injury issues continue, as starting point guard Patrick Beverley underwent surgery Friday to repair a fractured fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand. The Clippers announced that Beverley had surgery on Friday morning and that there is “no immediate timetable” for his return. He will be reevaluated in three