9:38 PM ET Michael Malone looked at the final stat sheet like he typically does after a game, but he didn’t need the numbers to confirm what he witnessed. “If you dig deeper into that … I think we give in too easy,” the Denver Nuggets‘ coach said Friday. “Our group has to be a
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2:15 AM ET The Western Conference quarterfinals between the #2 LA Clippers and #7 Dallas Mavericks is headed to a Game 4 on Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC), with the Clippers leading the Mavericks 2-1 following Friday night’s 130-122 Game 3 win by the Clippers. This matchup has pitted the top two offenses in the
11:23 PM ET It was a frigid winter December night in Boston and the Celtics had just polished off another division opponent behind the spirited efforts of their rejuvenated wunderkinds, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Two lockers over, Kemba Walker was beaming like a proud father. Boston’s prized free-agent acquisition, who managed to somehow transform
5:41 PM ET Golden State Warriors president Rick Welts issued a public apology Friday to Toronto Raptors counterpart Masai Ujiri for an altercation with a deputy sheriff that happened as Ujiri was trying to walk onto the court in Oakland after the deciding game of the 2019 Finals. “To my personal and professional friend Masai
1:25 PM ET LeBron James fired back at a digital ad campaign for misconstruing one of his tweets about voter suppression, writing on Twitter Friday: “Nobody should be able to use my name (or anyone else name) to lie and deceive about the election.” James was addressing a story in the Washington Post about a
4:36 PM ET The NBA’s board of governors discussed the delaying of the mid-October NBA draft and start of free agency on a call with commissioner Adam Silver on Friday, sources told ESPN. The possibility of delaying those two events — an idea with growing support within the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association
7:36 PM ET LA Clippers guard Patrick Beverley will not play in Game 3 against the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night, coach Doc Rivers said. Rives wouldn’t say whether Beverley has undergone an MRI on his left calf strain but said the injury is improving. Beverley will sit out his second straight game in the
3:23 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Portland Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts confirmed what star Damian Lillard said after Thursday night’s loss to the Los Angeles Lakers: Despite a dislocated left index finger he suffered in Game 2, Lillard will be in the starting lineup for Game 3. “He’s getting treatments
5:30 PM ET The Portland Trail Blazers are down yet one more starter, losing power forward Zach Collins to season-ending surgery on his left ankle, the team announced Friday. Collins has a hairline medial malleolus stress fracture, according to the team, and a date for surgery has yet to be determined. Collins had averaged seven
7:10 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN ARTHELIA AND TONY Warren Sr. sat glued to the television inside their Raleigh, North Carolina, home on the night of Aug. 1. “Baby, look here. He got 19 points already,” Tony noted after the opening quarter of Indiana’s first seeding game against the Philadelphia 76ers. “He might have a big