12:44 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons said Friday that the Sixers didn’t do a good enough job of holding themselves accountable last season, and it played a significant role in the team’s disappointing 2019-20 campaign. “One hundred percent,” Simmons said when asked whether former Sixer Josh Richardson‘s comments about the team’s
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1:09 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association have agreed not to conduct randomized tests for marijuana during the 2020-21 season. “Due to the unusual circumstances in conjunction with the pandemic, we have agreed with the NBPA to suspend random testing for marijuana for the 2020-21 season and focus our
7:46 AM ET Getting ready for the NBA preseason … in December. It’s an odd feeling. It feels like the draft was yesterday. That the Finals were just … the day before yesterday. After needing so long to cap off the 2019-20 season, just like that — last year’s rookies are young veterans; our new
4:21 PM ET The NBA schedule has been released for the first half of the 2020-21 season. The regular season tips off on Dec. 22, 72 days after the Los Angeles Lakers hoisted the Larry O’Brien Trophy inside the NBA’s Orlando bubble. Since then, we’ve had the NBA draft, a flurry of coaching changes and
12:56 AM ET Golden State Warriors associate coach Mike Brown took charge of the Nigeria national basketball team for the first time this past November, in the first round of the 2021 Afrobasket qualifiers, and got off to a 3 and 0 start. With no time to scrimmage, and only a handful of practice games
8:40 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Anthony Davis might have filled his bank account by signing a five-year, $190 million extension with the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday, but one of his teammates now wants him to fill his awards shelf, too. “I’m expecting AD to go for the MVP,” Lakers forward Jared Dudley said
5:52 PM ET Nikola Jokic pulled out his new wedding band to show reporters during his virtual media session Thursday. After a nail-biting run to the Western Conference finals, Jokic got married, and he now hopes to help the Nuggets take a step closer toward winning a championship ring this season even though the star
6:09 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN One of the NBA’s biggest offseason questions is still lingering: Will Giannis Antetokounmpo agree to a five-year supmermax extension to remain in Milwaukee? Although his current head coach Mike Budenholzer and teammate Khris Middleton might not have the answers, they’ve let their intentions be known. “I have a lot of
3:08 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN In the run-up to this year’s NBA draft, one of the biggest questions about Obi Toppin was how his defense would hold up at the NBA level. There is one person, however, who isn’t worried about those concerns: Toppin himself. “I feel really good going into any game with my
5:26 PM ET First-year Houston Rockets head coach Stephen Silas has not been in regular contact with James Harden, saying he is giving the disgruntled face of the franchise “space” as the season nears. Harden has informed the Rockets that he wants to be traded to the Brooklyn Nets, according to sources, preferring a fresh