6:00 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Pau Gasol will join a long line of legendary big men when his number is retired in the Lakers‘ rafters next season. L.A. will honor Gasol’s No. 16 on March 7 when it hosts the Memphis Grizzlies, the team announced Wednesday as part of its schedule release for 2022-23.
2:47 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA unveiled its schedule for the 2022-23 season Wednesday afternoon, which kicks off with a pair of long-standing rivalries involving the two teams that reached last season’s NBA Finals. The 2022-23 NBA regular season will begin on Tuesday, Oct. 18, with the Philadelphia 76ers traveling to face their forever
2:58 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has agreed to a two-year, $97.1 million contract extension that includes a player option for the 2024-25 season, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul told ESPN on Wednesday. The extension, which includes a 15% trade kicker, makes James the highest-earning player in NBA history with $532 million
6:03 PM ET Associated Press MASON, Ohio — US Open champion Emma Raducanu routed Victoria Azarenka 6-0, 6-2 on Wednesday in the second round of the Western & Southern Open. 1 Related The 19-year-old Raducanu won the final seven games against Serena Williams on Tuesday and the first 10 against Azarenka. Seeded 13th, Raducanu set
4:28 PM ET ESPN staff The order of the day for NFL training camps for this Wednesday were joint practices. Coaches like them because it allows them to evaluate players at a different level. Players like them because they not only don’t have to see the same faces, but they can hit guys who aren’t
5:34 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh is still in a wait-and-see mode on whether starting running back J.K. Dobbins will be ready for the regular-season opener. Dobbins, who tore his left ACL last August, has been participating in individual drills for five days since being activated off the physically
6:21 PM ET Grant Wells will open the season as Virginia Tech‘s starting quarterback, head coach Brent Pry said Wednesday following the team’s practice. An offseason transfer from Marshall, Wells edged out another transfer, Jason Brown, along with Connor Blumrick, who started the Hokies’ bowl loss to Maryland last season. “He’s had an exceptional camp,”
6:48 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt sophomore defensive end-linebacker Miles Capers will miss the season with an injured knee requiring surgery. Coach Clark Lea announced Capers’ season-ending injury Wednesday. From Sumter, South Carolina, Caper hurt a knee in practice this week. “When our teammates hurt, we hurt, and we certainly hurt for
10:00 AM ET Harry Lyles Jr. Dave Wilson Close ESPN Staff Writer Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. For the first time in years, there’s nothing predictable about the Big 12. After Oklahoma‘s six-year stranglehold on the
4:48 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN The 11 college presidents and chancellors who make up the College Football Playoff’s Board of Managers met via Zoom on Monday and began a discussion that could reshape the future of college sports, sources told ESPN. Multiple sources told ESPN that the Board of Managers briefly discussed the possibility of