SAN FRANCISCO -- It was so on-brand for the Memphis Grizzlies, it verged on parody.In the visiting locker room before games, most teams play a steady loop of the opponent's highlights, including scouting notes, on whatever monitor...
The New York Knicks are linked to just about every big-name player that hits the trade market. Their goal is seemingly to pool all of their draft assets and young players to land two superstars and begin comPeting for championships....
When James Harden wanted to join the Brooklyn Nets, he showed up to training camp in 2021 out of shape, played with minimal effort for a few weeks and then publicly suggested that his existing situation could not be fixed before getting...
Here's a fun fact: Aaron Gordon wears the number 50 because of the many, many times he's achieved that score in the Slam Dunk Contest. Here's a less fun fact: he's never actually won the Slam Dunk Contest despite racking up the most...
The legend of Dirk Nowitzki will live forever in Dallas, and on Christmas Day he was further immortalized with a statue bearing his likeness. From now on, visitors to the American Airlines Center will be greeted by a bronze, 23-foot...
Santa has delivered the Philadelphia 76ers something pretty strange. About an hour before their Christmas Day opener against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported that James Harden is seriously...
The end of Friday night's Game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Charlotte Hornets probably isn't what Dr. James Naismith envisioned when he invented the modern Game of basketball. The final minute of the Lakers' 134-130 loss was...
James Harden is one of the most prolific passers of his generation, but the star guard never recorded more assists in a single game than he did against the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night. In 40 minutes of action, Harden tallied...
Luka Doncic scored 50 points on 30 shots on Friday, and the Mavericks needed every one of them to fend off the Rockets in a 112-106 victory. Doncic added 10 assists, eight rebounds and three steals for fun. Doncic, in just his fifth...
DeMar DeRozan hasn't been as brilliant in the clutch this season as he was the last, but by just about any other standard he's still been great. Entering Friday's Game against the Knicks, DeRozan trailed only Shai Gilgeous-Alexander...
Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green called out the team's mental fortitude on Friday while speaking to reporters after practice. The Warriors are back in San Francisco after a disastrous road trip, during which they went 1-5...
Anthony Davis initially got hurt last Friday, when the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Denver Nuggets. Reports indicated that Davis was expected to miss around a month, but there was no diagnosis for his exact injury. Well now, a week...
The Charlotte Hornets and restricted free agent forward Miles Bridges are in talks over a new contract, and both sides are optimistic that a deal can be agreed to in the near future, according to Adrian Wojnarowski. If and when he...
BOSTON -- For the first time since his press conference to address to the Ime Udoka situation on Sept. 23, Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens spoke to the media on Friday following the team's shootaround. In...
The Indiana Pacers and Myles Turner have opened negotiations on a contract extension, according to The Athletic's Shams Charania. Turner can become a free agent after the season, and while the Pacers were initially expected to move...
Kevin Durant, even by his stratospheric standards, is playing out of his mind this season, and the Brooklyn Nets are humming to the tune of a seven-Game winning streak. Entering Friday night's tilt with the Milwaukee Bucks, Brooklyn...
We need to make two things about Trae Young clear from the start:The Atlanta Hawks star guard is almost certainly not getting traded this season. The closest thing we have to a precedent for a 24-year-old All-NBA guard getting traded...
Amateur numerologists must be in seventh heaven about the current state of the NBA. As of Friday, six teams in the Western Conference -- yes, six -- had exactly 19 wins. That means the first-place Denver Nuggets had won the same...
Blow. It. Up. They are NBA Twitter's three favorite words, but they tend to be far less realistic than critics want to accept. Fans think in terms of the championship binary. They want teams to either be directly comPeting for one...
Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. says he plans to make his return on Friday against the Portland Trail Blazers. Porter Jr. has not played since Nov. 22 due to a heel injury that the team was officially calling a contusion. Nuggets...
Before the season, a Toronto Raptors victory over the New York Knicks hardly would have qualified as news. The Knicks were coming off of a lottery season. The Raptors looked like an ascending contender. But based on just the last several...