7:33 PM ET When the Milwaukee Bucks left their hotel on Wednesday to ride over to AdventHealth Arena, they were an elite NBA team from a small market looking to complete a commonplace task: dispatching a No. 8 seed en route to the second round of the postseason. But in the three days since they
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7:17 AM ET After three days off, the 2020 NBA playoffs resume Saturday when the Milwaukee Bucks face the Orlando Magic. These games were scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday but were postponed after the Bucks chose not to play Wednesday afternoon in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, with teams across the
10:33 AM ET Clifford Robinson, a former NBA All-Star and the 1993 Sixth Man of the Year, has died at the age of 53, the UConn Huskies confirmed Saturday on Twitter. Robinson, known for his trademark headband, spent 18 seasons in the NBA with the Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, Detroit Pistons, Golden State Warriors
11:10 PM ET Eddie Maisonet III Chadwick Boseman, the star of “Black Panther,” died on Friday after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 43. Boseman, who portrayed baseball icon Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film “42,” died on the same day as Major League Baseball’s annual celebration of Jackie Robinson Day, in honor
10:25 PM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Following a contentious players’ meeting Wednesday that left the NBA bubble on the verge of bursting, LeBron James and Chris Paul led a subcommittee of players who reached out to former President Barack Obama for advice. The Los Angeles Lakers star, along with his good friend and
6:05 PM ET Dallas Mavericks big man Kristaps Porzingis has been ruled out for the remainder of the first-round playoff series against the LA Clippers due to a lateral meniscus tear in his right knee, the team announced Friday evening. The team’s statement said that “further treatment options are being explored at this time” and
12:53 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Michele Roberts released a joint statement Friday announcing that the NBA playoffs will resume Saturday, and that the NBA and its players will work together on several initiatives to promote voting access and combat
3:46 PM ET An emotional Chris Paul said NBA players needed “to reset” and “to refocus” over the past few days after another police shooting of a Black man, but they have emerged united and ready to complete the NBA postseason. “It’s definitely been a very emotional past couple of days, not only for myself,
4:22 PM ET Patrick Beverley admits there were disagreements during an emotional players meeting Wednesday, but the LA Clippers ultimately wanted to “stay united” with every NBA team and resume the playoffs. “I think collectively as a team, we just wanted to stay united with every other team here in the bubble,” Beverley said of
4:12 PM ET Before the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced Friday that the postseason will resume with players and the league working collectively toward social justice goals, we reached out to more than a dozen leaders to ask how they would advise NBA players to use their influence to translate political passions