8:41 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Chicago Bulls guard Tomas Satoransky and a team support-staff member have tested positive for COVID-19, according to coach Billy Donovan. “He’s obviously got to quarantine and he’s going through the league protocols with that,” Donovan said ahead of Sunday’s home game against the Dallas Mavericks. “We had another support-staff person
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11:09 PM ET After struggling to find a rhythm through the first week of the season, Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry exploded for a career-high 62 points in a 137-12 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday night. Curry finished the game going 18-for-31 from the field, 8-for-16 from beyond the arc
4:09 PM ET Seven members of the LA Clippers support staff — including one who tested positive for COVID-19 — are in quarantine away from the team, sources told ESPN. The quarantined group, which traveled via vans from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles over the weekend, includes no players, coaches or team management, sources
12:21 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN With the New Orleans Pelicans clinging to a three-point lead with 2.6 seconds left and Brandon Ingram at the free throw line to put the game away with one more shot, he already knew what was about to happen. He looked to the side and television cameras captured Ingram telling
4:41 PM ET Houston Rockets star guard James Harden was a late scratch for Saturday afternoon’s home game against the Sacramento Kings due to a sprained right ankle. Harden turned the ankle late in Thursday’s win over the Kings, but he was not listed on the official injury report. The Rockets announced that he would
8:58 PM ET Atlanta Hawks forward Danilo Gallinari has a right ankle sprain and will be evaluated in two weeks, the team said on Saturday. Gallinari exited Thursday’s loss to the Brooklyn Nets with the injury, playing only three minutes and scoring five points. The Hawks said in a statement that an MRI confirmed the
3:11 PM ET Paul Westphal, a Hall of Fame guard who was a five-time All-Star and a three-time All-NBA first-team selection, has died at the age of 70, the Phoenix Suns announced Saturday. Westphal had been diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2020. He grew up in Southern California and played college basketball at USC
3:15 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — The Golden State Warriors were hoping that Draymond Green‘s return would give the team a defensive edge it has been missing since the start of the regular season. Green missed most of training camp, all three preseason games and the first four regular-season games because of a combination of
8:27 PM ET When Gregg Popovich trudged through the tunnel at the AT&T Center after being ejected Wednesday, the magnitude of the moment — Becky Hammon replacing him to become the first woman to act as head coach in a regular-season NBA game — didn’t immediately set in. “Not on the way to the locker
7:04 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Chicago Bulls forward Chandler Hutchison has tested positive for COVID-19, according to coach Billy Donovan. He remains in Washington, D.C., as the Bulls prepare to face the Bucks in Milwaukee on Friday night. “He’s going through the NBA safety and protocols,” Donovan confirmed. Hutchison’s teammates Lauri Markkanen, Ryan Arcidiacono and