10:41 PM ET As he sipped his coffee in a Salt Lake City hotel lobby just after the All-Star break, Houston Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni spoke fondly about his professional fit with general manager Daryl Morey. D’Antoni had plenty of experience as a coach who butted heads with front offices when it came to basketball
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10:56 PM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — A one-year break for LeBron James and a nine-year hiatus for his franchise came to an end on Saturday: James and the Los Angeles Lakers are back in the conference finals. James poured in 29 points to go along with 11 rebounds and 7 assists in the
12:17 AM ET Coach Mike D’Antoni, a free agent now that the Houston Rockets are eliminated from the NBA playoffs, said his preference would be to remain with the organization. That’s also the hope of James Harden, the face of the franchise. “Of course. Of course,” Harden said after the Rockets’ season-ending 119-96 loss to
10:36 PM ET Marc Spears William Rondo, the brother of Los Angeles Lakers guard Rajon Rondo, was ejected from Saturday night’s game against the Houston Rockets after trash-talking with Rockets guard Russell Westbrook. In the fourth quarter, Westbrook turned to William Rondo, who was seated in the Lakers’ family section, and asked, “Are you talking
7:14 PM ET The LA Clippers have blown second-quarter leads of 21 and 16 points in two losses this postseason so far and Marcus Morris Sr. knows the problem. “We just lean on us being as good as we are on paper and not actually finishing the game,” Morris said Saturday, a day after the
12:56 AM ET Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — A small number of protesters carrying signs and shouting into megaphones briefly blocked at least two buses chartered by the NBA from entering the Walt Disney World campus on Saturday night, with the group saying it wanted LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and other top players
6:24 PM ET Naomi Osaka trailed Victoria Azarenka by a set and faced a break point that would have put her down 3-0 in the second set of the US Open women’s championship on Saturday. And then the 22-year-old star rallied … big time. Osaka stormed back to win the second and third sets to
3:39 PM ET As the Miami Heat get set for the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics, Jimmy Butler and his teammates do so with the same air of quiet confidence they’ve carried with them since the NBA restarted its season. The All-Star swingman brushed off the idea that the fifth-seeded Heat should feel
7:00 AM ET IT’S A FIVE-POINT game in a 1-1 playoff series and the game clock ticks inside two minutes in the first half when LeBron James goes in his bag. The sequence begins when James snags a defensive rebound and advances the ball up the left side of the court. Once past the massive
1:51 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — In Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series between the Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics, Raptors guard Norman Powell had the ball on a fast break against Celtics guard Marcus Smart with less than a minute to go in double overtime and converted an