1:15 PM ET Washington Wizards point guard Russell Westbrook is expected to miss at least the next week with a left quadriceps injury, the team announced Monday. Westbrook will be reevaluated at the end of the week. It is the latest blow in an already disappointing 2-8 start for the Wizards, who entered the season
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2:36 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA fined the Philadelphia 76ers $25,000 Monday afternoon for violating the league’s injury reporting rules. After Ben Simmons wasn’t on the injury report Friday, when Philadelphia had half its team in the NBA’s health and safety protocols after Seth Curry tested positive for COVID-19 the day before, the Sixers
7:04 AM ET The Golden State Warriors have won four of their past five games, including a 21-point comeback against the LA Clippers on Friday night. Stephen Curry — his 2-of-16 showing Sunday night against the Toronto Raptors notwithstanding — has found his scoring groove. Although they aren’t the same title contenders of seasons past,
1:30 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry didn’t allow himself to wallow in self-pity or shake his head in frustration on the night of the worst shooting performance of his career. He smiled wide at the idea that he could go 2-for-16 and the Golden State Warriors could still find a way to squeak
8:30 PM ET The Los Angeles Lakers exchanged DeMarcus Cousins‘ roster spot for Markieff Morris back in February. In Cousins’ first game against his former team Sunday, he and Morris got in a testy exchange of their own. Neither player ended up finishing the game. Morris and Cousins were called for double technical fouls with
9:00 PM ET Dallas Mavericks big man Kristaps Porzingis could make his season debut Monday night against the New Orleans Pelicans. Porzingis, who underwent surgery in October to address a lateral meniscus injury in his left knee, is listed as questionable for the first time this season. He is included among the Mavs’ likely starters
9:25 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Finally able to shed his cumbersome protective face mask, Kawhi Leonard enjoyed a milestone Sunday that included the best quarter of his life and reaching 10,000 career points. Leonard scored 35 and tied his career high of making seven 3-pointers, leading the Clippers past a red-hot Zach LaVine and
1:09 PM ET ESPN News Services Washington Wizards center Thomas Bryant has a partially torn ACL in his left knee, with a source telling ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that Bryant will miss the rest of the season. The Wizards announced the diagnosis Sunday. Bryant suffered the injury less than two minutes into the Wizards’ 128-124 loss
4:44 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid traveled with the team to Atlanta and is probable for Monday’s game against the Hawks while Ben Simmons will remain out with knee soreness, a source told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. Embiid (back soreness) and Simmons both missed Saturday’s loss to Denver — in which the Sixers had
7:11 PM ET As coronavirus-infected players, contact tracing quarantines and ancillary injuries thin rosters of available players, the NBA has no plans to pause the season, a league spokesman told ESPN. “We anticipated that there would be game postponements this season and planned the schedule accordingly,” NBA spokesman Mike Bass told ESPN in a statement.