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Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler. Mandatory Credit: Michael McLoone-USA TODAY Sports Mike Brown is second all time in coaching playoff wins for Kings by Jonathan Lurensky The Miami Heat stole Game 1 against the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday, benefitting from Giannis Antetokounmpo’s lower back injury. While Giannis is trending in the right direction for Game
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(Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images) The NCAA Tournament is done and so is the NBA regular season, setting the stage for an exciting summer of NBA Draft chatter. The end of the season — both collegiate and professional — is a milestone in every NBA Draft cycle. The lottery odds are set, but the ping pong
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12:53 AM ET ESPN News Services SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was ejected from a playoff game after stomping on the chest of Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis. The play happened in the fourth quarter of Game 2 of the first-round playoff series Monday night after Stephen Curry grabbed a defensive
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The Philadelphia 76ers trailed at the half of Game 2 against the Brooklyn Nets before Tyrese Maxey and company took over in the second half. The 76ers were able to come back in the second half to take a 2-0 lead on the Nets as the series heads to Brooklyn. Brooklyn’s wing defense seemed to
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7:11 PM ET MEMPHIS — Memphis Grizzlies power forward/center Jaren Jackson Jr. became the second-youngest Defensive Player of the Year winner in NBA history. The league announced Monday evening that Jackson, 23, won the honor, finishing ahead of Cleveland’s Evan Mobley and Milwaukee’s Brook Lopez in voting by a media panel. Jackson joins Alvin Robertson,
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In, This Week in Playoff Mode, we’re breaking down the first weekend of the NBA Playoffs and honing on the trends to watch for this coming week. The first weekend of the NBA playoffs delivered some classic performances from the expected (Kawhi Leonard) and unexpected (Austin Reaves), fast-paced games, injury scares and surprising upsets. Sorting
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Diar DeRozan, the daughter of Bulls star DeMar DeRozan, went viral on Wednesday for her free throw defense. Then she received “severe online threats.” DeMar DeRozan’s daughter, Diar, went viral on Wednesday for screeching during free throw attempts and quite effectively disrupting Raptors’ shooters. The Bulls beat Toronto to keep their playoff hopes alive in
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2:18 PM ET All-Star forward Paul George is likely to miss the LA Clippers‘ entire opening-round Western Conference playoff series against the Phoenix Suns because of his sprained right knee, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Sunday. George has been progressing on the rehabilitation from the injury he suffered on March 21, but the Clippers
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5:07 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — A year ago, James Harden entered the playoffs with the Philadelphia 76ers having played 21 games with his new team, and still was acclimating to a new environment after arriving here via a blockbuster midseason trade. On Saturday afternoon, Harden and the 76ers opened up this year’s playoffs
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12:28 AM ET ESPN News Services MINNEAPOLIS — Karl-Anthony Towns had 28 points and 11 rebounds to lead Minnesota into the playoffs, as the Timberwolves muscled and hustled their way past the Oklahoma City Thunder 120-95 to finish the play-in tournament Friday night. Rudy Gobert had 21 points and 10 rebounds in his return from
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