4:41 PM ET Sacramento Kings guard De’Aaron Fox evidently does not support the NBA having an All-Star Game this season, saying “it’s stupid” for the league to hold the event amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Sources told ESPN earlier this week that the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association were working toward an agreement for
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2:18 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant and Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James led the first round of fan voting for this year’s NBA All-Star Game. The update was released by the NBA on Thursday afternoon. Durant, who missed all of last season — his first as a member of the
2:52 PM ET Trail Blazers star guard Damian Lillard will not play Thursday against the 76ers because of an abdominal strain, adding to Portland’s growing list of injuries. Lillard, the NBA’s third-leading scorer, indicated that he considered sitting out Portland’s previous game Tuesday against the Wizards, saying he “felt like I could barely move out
6:58 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN When more than 90 players who signed as free agents become eligible to be traded Saturday, it will mark the unofficial start of trade season in the NBA. Several big names have already been traded since mid-November, including James Harden, Russell Westbrook, John Wall, Victor Oladipo, Chris Paul and Jrue
12:12 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN For New Orleans Pelicans coach Stan Van Gundy, what he saw from Zion Williamson on Wednesday night was unlike anything he’d seen from the 20-year-old so far this season. “I told Zion at the end of the game that it was by far his best game of the year if
1:00 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN The back-to-back reigning MVP clocked out early Wednesday night. In 31 minutes, Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo was near picture perfect, recording a triple-double through three quarters for the fourth time in his career. Therefore, he took on a new role as team photographer. While sitting on the sideline, “The
6:45 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors big man Kevon Looney will be out at least the next two weeks as he continues to recover from a sprained left ankle, the team announced Wednesday. Looney suffered the injury late in the first half of Tuesday’s 111-107 loss to the Boston Celtics and had
7:40 PM ET Associated Press No additional NBA players have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week, the league said Wednesday, after nearly two dozen games had to be called off in the past month because of virus-related issues. That continued a good two-week trend: After 27 players were positive in results released between
9:16 PM ET LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers and LA Clippers might have missed each other in the playoffs last year, but Lakers reserve Jared Dudley, in a new book, revealed his team was primed for the “Battle for L.A.” because of Paul George. “We hear some of those guys talking about how
6:13 PM ET USA Basketball is in the planning stages of creating a pre-Olympic bubble in Las Vegas for Team USA, Australia and Spain to train and play exhibition games against one another before leaving for Tokyo, managing director Jerry Colangelo told ESPN. With NBA players expected to make up the core of all three