The world is on fire. And, frankly, the news of pending basketball hardly seems important in the slightest. The planet-wide pandemic and sweeping protests have turned everybody’s day-to-day routines on their head – but, obviously, for one group, it has done so in awful and disproportionate ways. If you can donate, consider doing so. If
12:13 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA informed teams in a memo Saturday that COVID-19 testing for players and staff taking part in the league’s restart will begin June 23 and take place every other day. The memo, which was obtained by ESPN, says players and “essential team staff” — any coaches, trainers or medical
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5:47 PM ET The debate about whether the NBA season resuming would benefit or distract from the Black Lives Matter movement continued Saturday with players weighing in on social media. Houston Rockets guard Austin Rivers made the case on Instagram that NBA players earning their salaries would allow them to financially aid the cause while
The Boston Celtics certainly have a chance to win it all in the 2020 NBA Playoffs. The Boston Celtics were having a nice regular season before the current pandemic brought the NBA season to a screeching halt. With that being said, they weren’t going to enter the playoffs with a strong chance of taking home
8:29 PM ET When the National Basketball Players Association conducted a conference call and vote on restarting the season a week ago, Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving was an active participant — although his questions were of a mundane nature. Sources say Irving asked, as an injured player, if he would count among the Nets’
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9:59 PM ET In theory, you could pull it off without a hitch: about 1,500 people test negative for the coronavirus — several times — before entering the NBA’s proposed “bubble” at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, they interact with almost no one else, and the league emerges three months later
RCD Mallorca vs. Barcelona live stream: Watch La Liga online by John Wilkinson What does the PlayStation 5 look like? by D.J. Rivera Michael Jordan, #23, of Washington Wizards, Jerry Stackhouse, #42, (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images) Michael Jordan’s tenure with the Washington Wizards left plenty of bad feelings. Now he’s saying he knows that
7:28 AM ET What will happen in the 2020 NBA draft lottery, tentatively scheduled for Aug. 25? This will be the second lottery since the NBA flattened the odds, which introduced more uncertainty at the top of the draft order. Last season, the New Orleans Pelicans, Memphis Grizzlies and Los Angeles Lakers all jumped from
NBPA president Chris Paul, Houston Rockets, (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) We are hearing more and more reports about players being unhappy with the NBA’s plan to resume the season. Could it really all fall apart? When the NBA’s Board of Governors voted last week to approve the league’s plan for a 22-team season restart
12:44 AM ET When San Antonio Spurs guard Lonnie Walker IV cut his signature hairstyle this week, he was parting with more than just several inches off the top. Walker said he was attempting to free himself of painful memories. Walker, 21, revealed on Instagram on Thursday that he started to grow out his hair
Bronny James (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) Bronny James is growing into a big-time college basketball recruit. The son of the king is making a name for himself on the high school level where Bronny James, the son of LeBron James, is blossoming into a big-time college basketball recruit. LeBron, famously, skipped college and went
6:16 PM ET As the NBA firms up its 22-team Orlando restart schedule, 14 of the teams will be eliminated within 53 days of arriving — and only four teams will remain after 67 days, sources said. The NBA has been working to make clear to players that the actual commitment of time for most
The world is on fire. And, frankly, the news of pending basketball hardly seems important in the slightest. The planet-wide pandemic and sweeping protests have turned everybody’s day-to-day routines on their head – but, obviously, for one group, it has done so in awful and disproportionate ways. If you can donate, consider doing so. If
6:49 AM ET Nine NBA teams will head to the Orlando bubble in Florida looking to make a final push for a playoff spot. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Wednesday that some players on non-title-contending teams are hesitant to restart. Rosters might be tweaked as a result, but the potential for a surprise postseason run
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images LeBron James is teaming up with some high-profile names to create an organization for protecting black voting rights. On Tuesday, LeBron James tweeted proof that saying “go out and vote” to try and fix the problems in our country doesn’t work when the voting structure itself is inherently racist.
9:03 PM ET Houston Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni was like everyone else in the NBA whose world was rocked by the abrupt halt to the season on March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic. He cycled through emotions of shock, frustration, acceptance, then adjustment to the “new normal” as he prepared for a potential resumption
Don’t leave the Toronto Raptors out of the title contenders group for the 2020 NBA Playoffs. Despite last summer’s widespread dissolution of Big 3s around the league, despite the Golden State Warriors’ iron grip on NBA supremacy finally loosening, and despite the coronavirus throwing the entire season out of whack, there are still only three
The Los Angeles Clippers stand a good chance of being crowned this season’s NBA champions, and in a year without normal, that would be entirely fitting. I don’t know if the NBA‘s players will all pack into boats and sing “It’s a small world after all” or if Space Mountain will be made available. Perhaps
The world is on fire. And, frankly, the news of pending basketball hardly seems important in the slightest. The planet-wide pandemic and sweeping protests have turned everybody’s day-to-day routines on their head – but, obviously, for one group, it has done so in awful and disproportionate ways. If you can donate, consider doing so. If
5:58 PM ET As the NBA and NBPA are finalizing terms on a return-to-play plan Wednesday, there’s a faction of players discussing as a group whether restarting the season in the Orlando bubble is a good idea, sources said. Several dozen players participated in a conference call in the past 24 hours to discuss it,
Would MLB mandating a 48-game season be just as bad as no season? by Mike Phillips Louis Riddick says Patrick Mahomes is ‘elevating’ as transcendent athlete by Matt Verderame LaMarcus Aldridge, #12, San Antonio Spurs, (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images) The San Antonio Spurs announced that center LaMarcus Aldridge will miss the remainder of the
A league-wide lack of salary-cap space may limit the amount of free-agent fireworks in 2020, but a handful of teams could take advantage of the barren market. Even before the coronavirus pandemic threatened to wreak havoc on the NBA’s 2020-21 salary cap, few teams were projected to have much cap space this offseason. Barring unexpected
7:29 AM ET NBA Insiders Who are the favorites in the new NBA playoff races, and which team will win it all? The NBA is planning to restart with 22 teams in Orlando on July 31, featuring an eight-game regular season, a potential play-in series for the No. 8 seeds and then the playoffs. A
2:21 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Atlanta Hawks general manager Travis Schlenk said Tuesday morning that the NBA has told the league’s general managers that the 2020-21 NBA schedule could be more condensed in order to allow the league to remain as close as possible to its current schedule format. “Because of this circumstance, I think
Antoine Griezmann reiterates desire to finish career in MLS by Steve Zavala Red Sox players need to make a statement in light of Torii Hunter’s indictment of Boston by Sam Dunn Damian Lillard, #0, Portland Trail Blazers, (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images) Damian Lillard was the latest NBA star to join police brutality protests, marching
The Denver Nuggets were a second-tier contender in the regular season but they have as good a shot as anyone of breaking through and winning it all. All due respect to the eight games of rhythm re-establishing regular season the NBA has planned, but this postseason is going to be weird. Everyone gets a training
Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images Russell Westbrook is teaming with Stanley Nelson to produce a docuseries on the Tulsa Race Massacre. Former Oklahoma City Thunder star and MVP Russell Westbrook participated in Black Lives Matter protests earlier this week, and now he’s getting involved with a project that will educate on a horrific historic incident