12:22 PM ET Associated Press The NBA Replay Center has a new leader. Kane Fitzgerald, who spent 13 years working as an NBA referee, has been announced as the league’s new vice president of referee operations and replay center principal. He’s replacing another former referee in Jason Phillips, who left the job after three years.
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The next iteration of the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement will be focused heavily on NBA Draft eligibility rules. No one wants a lockout in pro sports. The MLB lockout that threatened the 2022 MLB season was a reminder of how harsh the business side of the professional sports world can be. Thankfully for MLB fans,
The Las Vegas Aces win their first-ever WNBA Championship, and WNBA Twitter is losing it over a fantastic WNBA Finals run. The Las Vegas Aces win their first-ever WNBA Championship, and it’s tough to pick a headline. There’s the tear the Aces have been on ever since the All-Star break, which A’ja Wilson spoke to
Lonzo Ball missed much of last season after knee surgery and he won’t be ready for training camp. How much does his absence limit the Bulls? In less than a month, the Chicago Bulls will open their training camp for the start of the 2022-23 season. Unfortunately, they’ll have to do so without their starting
5:20 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — For Spain, almost all of the names on the national team’s roster have changed in recent years. The expectations didn’t. And neither did the results. Juancho Hernangomez scored 27 points, his brother Willy Hernangomez added 14 and won tournament MVP honors, and Spain topped France 88-76 on Sunday
Sep 16, 2022 Associated Press BERLIN — France sent a message on its way to grabbing a spot in the EuroBasket championship game and a showdown with Spain. Guerschon Yabusele scored 22 points, and France rolled past Poland 95-54 in the semifinals of the European championships on Friday. “We just played our basketball,” Yabusele said.
Steph Curry thinks the Boston Celtics are better off having not traded for Kevin Durant since they would have had to give up important talent to get him. Kevin Durant was known to be available for a significant portion of the NBA offseason, yet no team ended up trading for him. Why? Part of it
12:59 PM ET Free agent guard P.J. Dozier is signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Dozier is returning from a torn ACL in his left knee, suffered in November while a member of the Denver Nuggets. He played for the Nuggets under new Wolves president Tim Connelly. Dozier’s rights were later
PayPal is cutting off its business relationship with the Phoenix Suns in light of an investigation into team owner Robert Sarver’s conduct. Earlier this week, Phoenix Suns and Mercury owner Robert Sarver was suspended by the NBA for one year and fined $10 million following an investigation into his workplace conduct going back over a
Sep 16, 2022 PayPal, the jersey patch partner of the Phoenix Suns, said Friday it would not be renewing its sponsorship with the team should majority owner Robert Sarver continue in his role following his one-year suspension for racist and misogynist remarks. “PayPal is a values-driven company and has a strong record of combatting racism,
Los Angeles Lakers guard Russell Westbrook. (Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports) MLB Playoff Bracket: 5 MLB teams on upset alert this postseason by Noah Yingling Cubs are looking overseas for next major pitching addition by Rylie Smith The Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly considering bringing Russell Westbrook off the bench with Patrick Beverley and Dennis Schroder
4:48 PM ET Baxter Holmes Close ESPN Senior Writer Baxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. Malika Andrews Close ESPN Staff Writer Staff Writer Joined ESPN in 2018
Through three games, the Las Vegas Aces have a 2-1 lead in the 2022 WNBA Finals, with both teams winning their home games so far. The Aces came into Thursday night poised to capture the team’s first title, but the Sun exploded offensively, sending us to a Game 4 on Sunday. Can the Aces close
Despite being traded from the Utah Jazz to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Donovan Mitchell has come out and said that he could have gone to the Knicks, but there is more to the story than what we know. Leave it to the New York Knicks to find a way to blow an opportunity to get a
5:43 PM ET Free agent guard Dennis Schroder is finalizing a one-year, $2.64 million deal to return to the Los Angeles Lakers, his agent, Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports, told ESPN on Friday. Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka and new coach Darvin Ham reached out to Russell Westbrook in recent days to tell him that
A fresh NBA season feels good. You go into the year feeling optimistic for your team regardless of what happened last year. Expectations have been recalibrated and you’ve been yet to be let down. For players, it feels just as good. They’ve spent the offseason working on their game and conditioning and are ready to
8:00 AM ET NBA Insiders The NBA’s two biggest offseason questions — the futures of Kevin Durant and Donovan Mitchell — have been answered. But while the Brooklyn Nets seem on track to run it back with their current core intact, the drama at Barclays Center is far from over. Will the Durant-Nets partnership survive
The NBA Trade Deadline is one of the most anticipated dates on the league calendar. When is it for the 2022-23 season? There are a handful of dates on the NBA calendar that mean more than others. The NBA Draft, for instance, represents the day a new influx of young talent gets spread across the
3:35 PM ET Baxter Holmes Close ESPN Senior Writer Baxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. Zach Lowe Close ESPN Senior Writer Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) is a senior
Sep 15, 2022; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams (81) catches a touchdown pass against Kansas City Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed (38) during the second half at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Tyreek Hill had a perfect reaction on Twitter to insane Patrick Mahomes
9:48 PM ET Phoenix Suns vice chairman and minority owner Jahm Najafi, the team’s second-largest stakeholder, called for majority owner Robert Sarver’s resignation in an open letter to team employees released on Thursday night, saying there should be “zero tolerance” for lewd, misogynistic and racist conduct in any workplace. Sarver was banned from the NBA
Former Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce gave the final word on infamous 2008 NBA Finals rumor: “Only sh*tting that I did was on the Lakers.” Before Julian Edelman and Sam Morril dropped the first episode of their “Games With Names” sports history podcast, the duo dropped a hint as to what NBA fans could learn
3:14 PM ET Dan HajduckyESPN Close Hajducky is a reporter/researcher for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. A jersey worn by Michael Jordan in Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals — part of the hallowed
After a brief hiatus from Under Armour, NBA superstar Steph Curry is back in the saddle with the apparel company, inking a billion-dollar, lifetime deal. In 2018, there was a hiatus between Golden State Warrior superstar Steph Curry and Under Armour that nearly ended in a split. Now, that seems to have been resolved with
The NBA has announced a one-year suspension and $10 million fine for Phoenix Suns/Mercury owner Robert Sarver. Back in November 2021, sources close to ESPN brought up allegations of racism and sexist behavior from the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury team owner Robert Sarver. Apparently, these allegations began surfacing back in 2016 after a game
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James disagrees with the NBA’s decision on Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver’s punishment. On Tuesday, Sept. 13, the NBA announced that Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver is suspended for one year, and will be fined $10 million following an investigation into the organization. The investigation occurred following a Nov. 2021
5:37 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Wednesday said the one-year suspension he gave to Phoenix Suns and Mercury owner Robert Sarver for making racist and misogynist remarks could have been longer, but that he didn’t “have the right to take away his team.” While Silver said Sarver was
The recent Rolling Stone profile of Steph Curry included some fascinating new stories, including one about a “stern” email from President Obama. A new, in-depth profile of Steph Curry was released this week at Rolling Stone including a number of previously unknown details and stories. Among them was the fact that the Warriors had serious
7:30 PM ET LeBron James detailed his disappointment with the NBA’s punishment of Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver, writing “our league definitely got this wrong” in a series of social media posts Wednesday. Sarver was banned from the NBA for one year and fined $10 million after the league on Tuesday released its findings from
Jun 6, 2022; El Segundo, CA, USA; Los Angeles Lakers head coach Darvin Ham speaks after being introduced at UCLA Health Training Center Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports A disappointing season for the Lakers was followed by a quiet offseason filled with trade rumors that didn’t pan out. But they still have plenty