Listen, if you’ve found yourself here at this exact moment in late October and/or/potentially early November, there’s likely only one thing on your newly-refined, basketball-obsessed minds: hot takes. Make ‘em as hot as you can. And none of that Cholula weak sauce spiciness either — no, let’s sear some taste buds off and shoot them
Month: October 2019
2:49 PM ET Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner is listed as week-to-week after spraining his right ankle Wednesday, the team announced. The injury occurred in the first quarter of Indiana’s 118-108 road win against the Brooklyn Nets. The team’s 2015 first-round draft pick is averaging 14.8 points and 6.8 rebounds in four games this season.
Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images In the spirit of Halloween, it’s time to play Trick-or-Treat with one major early season trend for each and every NBA team here in 2019-20. Every year, thousands of young children go from door to door in their neighborhoods, ringing the doorbell and shouting “Trick-or-Treat!” in the hopes of being
Pascal Siakam stepping up to fill the Kawhi Leonard void was expected for the Toronto Raptors, but Fred VanVleet looks ready to soak up a larger role as well. When Kawhi Leonard decided to leave the defending NBA champions and return home to Los Angeles, it was only natural to expect Pascal Siakam to assume his mantle
7:47 AM ET Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner is expected to miss Friday’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers because of a sprained right ankle. Turner, 23, suffered the injury in the first quarter of Wednesday’s victory over the Nets in Brooklyn and did not return to the contest. The Pacers have not provided a specific
We are now officially one week into this NBA season and so far, so good. With the Hamptons Five disbanded, we believed that this was the most parity in the history of the NBA. The season may still be young, but this newfound competitiveness has definitely shown itself. We have some standouts, of course, and,
12:14 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry left Wednesday’s game against the Phoenix Suns after suffering an injury in the area of his left wrist. The play happened with 8:31 left in the third quarter when Curry drove to the rim and collided with Suns big man Aron Baynes, who
Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images Max Scherzer ready for the spotlight of World Series Game 7 by David Salituro The latest episode of Fastbreak Breakfast reviews the first week of the NBA season and loudly wonders if is ok. Well, the good news is the Jazz are undefeated in games where Mike Conley
3:28 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors big man Willie Cauley-Stein and veteran swingman Alec Burks will make their respective season debuts on Wednesday night against the Phoenix Suns. Cauley-Stein, who signed with the team over the summer, missed all of training camp and the first three regular-season games after injuring his left
We are now officially one week into this NBA season and so far, so good. With the Hamptons Five disbanded, we believed that this was the most parity in the history of the NBA. The season may still be young, but this newfound competitiveness has definitely shown itself. We have some standouts, of course, and,
8:09 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — Constellations of All-Star talent light up the rosters of a Western Conference that is as wide open as it has been for at least half a decade. Just look at all the All-Stars on the teams that could contend in the West. Kawhi Leonard convinced Paul George to
Tim Donaghy was an NBA referee until he was banned for betting hundreds of thousands of dollars and for making calls that affected the point spread. Tim Donaghy watches himself on the screen, making those same mistakes. Betting hundreds of thousands of dollars on games that he worked, making calls that affected the point spread.
For the second year in a row, the Phoenix Suns opened their season with a dominant home win. Here’s why this time actually feels different. Last year, the Phoenix Suns opened their 2018-19 season at home with an impressive 21-point win over the Dallas Mavericks. With a new head coach at the helm, veterans on
From potential training camp cut to backup point guard and late-game finisher, Jevon Carter has been an unexpected revelation for the Phoenix Suns. Four games is a microscopic sample size, and the Phoenix Suns still have a long way to go in proving their promising start is for real. But for Jevon Carter, the team’s
11:56 PM ET Kevin WangESPN.com Six-time NBA All-Star forward Amar’e Stoudemire has signed a deal to play for Fujian Sturgeons in the Chinese Basketball Association this season, the team announced. The announcement came approximately a week after Stoudemire departed from the United States for Hong Kong, where he was greeted by team officials and then
Three games into the NBA season and there has already been an abundance of fun and exciting storylines. Trae Young and Karl Anthony-Towns have played like MVP candidates, while the Golden State Warriors have looked like one of the worst teams in the league and Dwight Howard has contributed to winning basketball. While exciting, these
1:35 PM ET ESPN News Services HOUSTON — A Houston Rockets fan has been charged with assault after allegedly punching a New Orleans Pelicans coach at the end of a game between the teams. Prosecutors charged Manuel Garcia with misdemeanor assault for allegedly punching Pelicans assistant coach Joe Boylan in the face Saturday. Garcia’s girlfriend
After one season as a promising team on the rise, the Sacramento Kings are struggling to recapture the same joy that animated them last year and the future no longer seems quite as bright. The NBA’s regular season can sometimes seem like a bit of a slog. It is several months long, the list of
7:00 AM ET Nick DePaulaESPN There are 16 active NBA players with their own signature sneaker, and three of them call Brooklyn home. Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving have high-profile Nike lines, with regular releases of new models and colorways that drive millions of dollars in sales. Players around the NBA and at every level
Danny Ainge is a gambler, only not in the typical sense. Yes, Ainge does, on occasion, deal with money. It’s just part of the job. But, more so than cash, Ainge is often one to gamble on players, whether they are his own or on some other roster. For better or worse, the Boston Celtics
7:25 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — After moving seven times in his first decade in the NBA, Stephen Curry thought he’d found what was going to be his family’s forever home. It was in the East Bay, a short commute from Oracle Arena in Oakland. The Golden State Warriors were headed across the San Francisco
The 18-year-old scoring wing Anthony Edwards is already among a select group in contention for the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. Combine the modern-day importance of players who can drive to the rim and either kick to shooters or create shots for themselves with the ever-valuable skill of isolation scoring and
The New York Knicks are in the second year of a full rebuild and they can’t even get that right. Things were supposed to be different for the New York Knicks. They were long thought to be the final destination for the Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving team-up but the duo instead opted to go
3:36 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The Boston Celtics‘ “city” jerseys were unveiled to the masses Monday — just not in the way they were expected to be. Center Enes Kanter posted a picture of the front and back of his version of the jerseys on his Instagram story Monday, before taking them down soon after.
Well, that didn’t take long. Then again, did it have to? Coming into the season, the Los Angeles Clippers were projected to be the favorite to win the NBA title, but barely. Unlike the Golden State Warriors over the last three years, they were nowhere near as unanimous as a title favorite. Plus, with Paul
Bad news turned worse when it was reported Monday that New Orleans Pelicans rookie sensation Zion Williamson will be out 6-8 weeks after knee surgery. A hush fell over NBA fandom when it was first announced that Zion Williamson would miss the New Orleans Pelicans‘ final preseason game with knee soreness. That hush became a quiet
After two inconsistent seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers, Lonzo Ball made his debut with the New Orleans Pelicans to open the 2019-20 NBA season. Lonzo Ball was taken with the second overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft. He was the hometown kid who spent the entirety of his basketball career in California. He
7:28 AM ET ESPN News Services Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James tweeted early Monday morning that he and his family has had to evacuate their house due to the wildfires that are blazing throughout California. Early Monday, a brush fire broke out along the west side of Interstate 405, north of Sunset Boulevard and
Kawhi Leonard already dominates the game with robot-like efficiency, but with playmaking added to his game, he and the LA Clippers will be unstoppable. Kawhi Leonard, a two-time NBA champion, two-time Defensive Player of the Year, two-time Finals MVP, three-time All-NBA selection and three-time All-Star, has very little left to prove to anyone in this
10:41 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN All-Star point guard John Wall and Adidas are engaged in ongoing buyout negotiations that will soon bring his five-year footwear and apparel endorsement deal to an end less than two years into the agreement, industry sources told ESPN. Since signing the deal in January 2018, Wall has been sidelined by
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