1:56 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — With Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals between the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors just over 24 hours away from its scheduled tip, the possibility of boycotting the game remains on the table for both teams in the wake of the police shooting of
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11:39 AM ET The Indiana Pacers have fired coach Nate McMillan after his team was swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Miami Heat. The move comes a week after the Pacers had reworked McMillan’s final year on his contract for 2020-21 and added a team option for 2021-2022 in form of
5:38 PM ET Ohm Youngmisuk Close ESPN Staff Writer Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is a graduate
1:41 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Philadelphia 76ers general manager Elton Brand made it clear that while there are expected to be significant changes across the organization — changes that began Monday with the firing of head coach Brett Brown — the team will continue to be built around All-Stars Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid. “I’m
7:25 AM ET The best one-on-one battle going, and certainly the one with the biggest name recognition gap, resumes Wednesday night in a pivotal Game 5 between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets: James Harden against Luguentz Dort. So far, these have been the playoffs of the isolation — and specifically the one-on-one drive.
1:58 AM ET It took 13 months from when they started believing they were going to win a championship that the LA Clippers had to finally play a truly meaningful game. Oh, there were important games, like the first few in their series with the Dallas Mavericks. There were games they badly wanted, like opening
6:49 AM ET After enduring a scary loss in Game 1, the Los Angeles Lakers woke up, snapped back into shape and rattled off three straight wins in their first-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers. On Wednesday, they look to close it out and continue their march through the Western Conference. These aren’t your
4:03 PM ET Malika Andrews Close ESPN Staff Writer Staff Writer Joined ESPN in 2018 Appears regularly on ESPN Chicago 1000 Tim Bontemps LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Toronto Raptors held a team meeting before Tuesday’s practice to discuss how they could respond to the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin —
7:11 PM ET LA Clippers coach Doc Rivers unloaded his frustration and raw emotion over the shooting of Jacob Blake and the current state of racial affairs in the country on Tuesday. Before his team’s 154-111 victory in Game 5 over the Dallas Mavericks, Rivers was asked about the Sunday shooting of Blake, a Black
6:53 PM ET Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo was named the 2019-20 NBA Defensive Player of the Year on Tuesday. Antetokounmpo won the award in a landslide, receiving 75 first-place votes from a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters and earning 432 points total. The 2018-19 MVP, Antetokounmpo becomes just the fifth player to win