12:57 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Boston Celtics needed to win Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals to even this series at two games apiece. So why did they — and, in particular, Jayson Tatum — come out so flat in the first half, an effort that helped doom
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2:48 PM ET On Wednesday, a grand jury in Kentucky indicted officer Brett Hankison on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree in a shooting in March that killed Breonna Taylor. Two other Louisville Metro Police Department officers — Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and officer Myles Cosgrove — also fired shots into Taylor’s apartment,
6:26 PM ET Golden State Warriors stars Stephen Curry and Draymond Green have been excused from the team’s minicamp for family reasons, according to coach Steve Kerr. “First of all, I want to make clear that this is a voluntary camp,” Kerr said after the team’s first practice Wednesday at Chase Center in San Francisco.
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5:37 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN It didn’t take the New York Knicks long to learn what life under Tom Thibodeau will be like. The team convened Wednesday for its first practice under Thibodeau, who was hired last month, during the voluntary minicamps each of the eight teams that weren’t invited to the NBA bubble in
7:47 PM ET Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Celtics forward Gordon Hayward and his wife, Robyn, are parents for a fourth time. Robyn Hayward announced the birth of the couple’s first son — Gordon Theodore Hayward — on Wednesday, a couple of hours before the Celtics would face the Miami Heat in Game
5:44 PM ET Associated Press New Sacramento Kings general manager Monte McNair said he is looking forward to working with coach Luke Walton to revive a franchise that has the longest current playoff drought in the NBA. McNair was hired last week to replace Vlade Divac after a long tenure as an executive in Houston.
1:46 PM ET ESPN News Services A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday indicted one police officer for shooting into neighboring apartments but did not move forward with charges against any officers for their role in Breonna Taylor’s death. A grand jury in Louisville announced that Officer Brett Hankison was charged with three counts of wanton
7:20 AM ET The first three games of the Eastern Conference finals between the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics have given us enough comebacks, drama, coaching adjustments and big plays to live up to expectations and then some. So what comes next? We asked our NBA forecast panel to assess the series and look
6:49 AM ET A year ago, Jimmy Butler was changing teams for the third time in three years. He didn’t make the All-Star Game for the first time in four years, and he had developed a reputation as an irritant or a malcontent or a difficult teammate — or all three. These days, Joel Embiid