2:47 PM ET There was a time when Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard received adulation for wearing a cape in the dunk contest. Now he’s been disciplined for not wearing a mask in the NBA bubble. Howard said he was reported to the NBA Campus Hotline, set up to help protect players and staff
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4:41 PM ET LA Clippers power forward Montrezl Harrell has left the team to tend to a family emergency, a source confirmed to ESPN. Harrell was with the team for the NBA’s restart in Orlando, Florida. He is expected to rejoin the team again, as first reported by The Athletic. The Clippers were already shorthanded
2:15 PM ET Denver forward Will Barton said he will not wear a social justice message on his jersey, opting instead to continue to try to educate and “show people how to survive in this cruel world.” “I feel like I’d be cheating my race,” Barton, who is Black, said of why he has decided
6:43 AM ET THE LENGTH OF time is nearly five weeks. “Say that again?” CJ McCollum asked, just to be clear. Forty days is roughly how long, at a minimum, each of the 22 NBA teams in Orlando, Florida, will reside in the Walt Disney World Resort bubble. In a late June call to discuss
7:25 AM ET We left the NBA just after trade and buyout season. Top teams were incorporating new players and adjusting after injuries. Here are 13 new or newish lineups I’m excited to watch when the games start. Shake Milton (!), Josh Richardson, Ben Simmons, Tobias Harris, Joel Embiid: 0 minutes. Just when I think
7:00 AM ET Michael Jordan shuffled papers as he sat overlooking the basketball court on the Charlotte Bobcats sideline. It was March 2010, and the five-time NBA MVP was awaiting a final decision on league approval for him to be a majority owner of the Bobcats. As a camera panned down, you could see that
7:58 PM ET James Harden pleasantly surprised the Houston Rockets‘ coaching staff by showing no signs of rust as a full participant in Thursday’s practice, his first since arriving at the NBA’s Walt Disney World Resort campus five days after the team flew to Orlando, Florida. “He looked good,” Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni said. “He
8:54 PM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Milwaukee Bucks guard Eric Bledsoe tested positive for the coronavirus and has yet to make the trip to Orlando, Florida, to join the team for the NBA restart, he told ESPN on Thursday. “I am asymptomatic and feeling fine,” Bledsoe told ESPN in a statement. “Once I
10:22 PM ET Damian Lillard can remember only one time in his life not having a birthday party, so as he turned 30 on Wednesday his teammates made sure he got to celebrate in the NBA bubble despite being away from his family. But Lillard had only one birthday wish: “My only ask as a
9:04 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Boston Celtics guard Kemba Walker admitted he is “pretty frustrated” to still be dealing with a left knee issue four months after the season was suspended March 11, but he said he remains optimistic it will improve in time for the playoffs. “It’s definitely pretty frustrating, just because I’m not