7:24 AM ET NBA Insiders NBA players spent the past week publicly and privately grappling with the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before refusing to play in games Wednesday, setting off protests by athletes across American sports. What does this historic week mean for the NBA and other leagues? What were
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9:49 AM ET Tim MacMahon Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The Houston Rockets held an intrasquad scrimmage Thursday to get All-Star guard
10:35 AM ET Roughly 100 NBA employees will walk out Friday in solidarity with NBA and WNBA players who are pushing for social justice, a league source told ESPN. The protest comes two days after the Milwaukee Bucks decided not to take the floor for Game 5 against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday. New York-
11:15 PM ET LA Clippers coach Doc Rivers said his players are ready to continue the NBA postseason after “they thought it was over” following Wednesday’s emotional players’ meeting. “Oh, they want to,” Rivers said when asked if his team is ready to move forward during an interview Thursday on Fox Prime Ticket. “They are
7:30 PM ET Orlando Magic forward Aaron Gordon has left the NBA bubble because of a strained left hamstring injury, the team announced Thursday. Gordon has been out of action since the injury occurred during an Aug. 5 loss to the Toronto Raptors. In the second half of that game, Gordon went up for a
8:33 PM ET After NBA players spent days discussing a potential protest of playoff games, the Milwaukee Bucks decided to not take the floor Wednesday for Game 5 of their first-round series against the Orlando Magic, prompting the NBA to postpone all three games scheduled that night. Milwaukee is about 40 miles north of Kenosha,
4:00 PM ET THE FIRST TIME someone called me the N-word on a basketball court was in seventh grade. I remember dribbling the ball on the wing in front of the visitors bench. This girl, whose name I never knew, said I was a “stupid n—–.” I looked over my shoulder, still dribbling, at her
12:02 PM ET NBA players have decided to resume the playoffs, a source tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Thursday’s three playoff games will be postponed. A resumption of the season could come as soon as Friday, but there is expected to be a return to the play by the weekend according to sources. Players held a
3:13 PM ET As the NBA continues to navigate its next steps after the extraordinary decision of the Milwaukee Bucks not to play their playoff game against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday over social justice issues, prompting the cancellation of games throughout multiple professional sports, a recognizable figure has emerged as a go-between NBA players
12:12 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, said Thursday that NBA protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are “absurd and silly,” while White House senior adviser Jared Kushner told CNBC that the players were “very fortunate” to be in a