Basketball News

Close games, social justice protests, and a principal role for Rudy Gobert, again.

From player protests to renewed rivalries, our NBA experts react to the first night of restart action.

Stephen Curry, Trae Young and other NBA players took to social media to celebrate the return of the season.

NBA players will now get $2.5M in disability insurance, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

There will be no shortage of opportunities for players to make an impact for the short-handed Washington Wizards in the bubble. Expect former UConn guard Shabazz Napier among those leading that charge. While lottery pick...

The Utah Jazz are one of several teams caught up in the dog fight in the middle of the Western Conference playoff picture. Perhaps the time off will serve them well as they jump back into the fray in Orlando. After a dom...

The Toronto Raptors have an obscene amount of unheralded depth and the abundance of options at head coach Nick Nurse’s disposal was on full display in March prior to the shutdown. Big man Serge Ibaka had raised his gam...

Do not sleep on the San Antonio Spurs’ youth movement. Despite the fact that the team remains positioned to contend for a 23rd consecutive playoff berth, the Spurs have assembled an impressive young core that started t...

The Sacramento Kings face an uphill battle trying to crawl into the Western Conference playoff picture but fortunately the young squad was beginning to gain momentum in March. Whether that can continue in Orlando is the ...

The Phoenix Suns were playing solid basketball when the league went on hiatus in March, thanks largely in part to increases in personal production across the board. Whether those hot hands can continue on into the restar...

The shut down came at a strange time for Philadelphia 76ers fans as they had just begun to wrap their head around what they might have on hand in sophomore guard Shake Milton. Milton started to get serious playing time f...

The Orlando Magic were coming into their own when the league went on its hiatus in March. Now the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference will look to pick up where they left off despite the cross-town move to Disney World....

The Oklahoma City Thunder have ridden a three point guard rotation into the Western Conference playoff picture and the triple threat was as scary in the days before the shut down as ever. All of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, ...

The Milwaukee Bucks could be one of the teams to indirectly benefit from the long layoff considering that superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo had dealt with and even missed the team’s final two games before the shutdown wi...

The Miami Heat had just begun to lean more heavily on Duncan Robinson as an offensive option when the league shut down in March. The second year forward had averaged 19.0 points per game in the month, up from 12.8 prior,...

The Memphis Grizzlies were besieged by injuries in March but that didn’t prevent them from hanging on to their No. 8 seed in the Western Conference. Without the likes of Jaren Jackson Jr. and Brandon Clarke, the Grizzl...

The Los Angeles Lakers have a very powerful weapon at their disposal in Orlando and that’s a highly motivated LeBron James. The King was at the top of his game in March, when the league stood still, averaging just shy ...

The Los Angeles Clippers were winning ball games prior to the shut down – they’d won seven of their final 10 – but weren’t getting any particularly memorable performances from the individuals on the roster. Kawhi...

It’s easy to forget in the chaos of 2019-20 that Victor Oladipo had only recently returned to action for the Indiana Pacers and he was taking his time working himself back to form. The shooting guard had started to gat...

The Houston Rockets have been rebuilding themselves from the inside-out, literally, since the trade deadline and while the team won a respectable six of their final 10 games, it’s possible the layoff could help the tea...

Tyrell Terry will be the first one-and-done freshman in Stanford history, as the guard told ESPN that he's decided to keep his name in the 2020 NBA draft.

The Sacramento Kings had to quarantine a player for two days after an inconclusive coronavirus test result, but he is expected to be cleared after successive negative results.