Basketball News

The Utah Jazz signed forward Ersan Ilyasova today. Ilyasova (6-9, 235, Turkey) spent the 2019-20 season with the Milwaukee Bucks, where he averaged 6.6 points on 46.6 percent from the field and 4.8 rebounds in 63 games (...

Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry wasn't willing to commit to staying with the team as a free agent this summer, but he said definitively that he wants to retire as a Raptor.

Brooklyn Nets sttar Kevin Durant will remain out for the rest of this week and newly signed Blake Griffin will not play Thursday night against the Boston Celtics.

In 2010, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh made national headlines when they decided to join the Miami Heat as teammates to form the league’s first player-created superteam. The Heat’s ‘Big Three’ Era feel...

Just when it looked like Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James had gained enough distance on Father Time to legitimately come away from the 2020-21 campaign with his fifth NBA MVP award at 36-years-old, Philadelphia 76...

Leonard, a reserve center for the N.B.A.'s Miami Heat, said the slur while playing a video game on a public livestream.

The Los Angeles Lakers signed center Damian Jones to a second 10-day contract today. Jones has averaged 4.0 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.3 blocks in 10.3 minutes through three games with the Lakers after signing with the t...

Miami Heat player Meyers Leonard has been fined $50,000 and suspended from all Heat facilities and team activities for one week for an anti-Semitic comment he made Monday, March 8, the NBA announced today. Leonard will a...

After Team USA's seventh-place finish at the 2019 FIBA World Cup, a slew of NBA stars committed to returning to the team for Tokyo.

A healthy second half could help Dallas' 7-foot-3 center deliver on his full spread of skills.

The New Orleans Pelicans have signed guard Sindarius Thornwell to a second 10-day contract. Thornwell, 6-4, 215, has previously appeared in 11 games (one start) this season with New Orleans, averaging 1.4 points in 4.8 m...

Golden State coach Steve Kerr said he's unsure if Warriors center James Wiseman can play on Thursday night because the rookie missed a COVID-19 test during the All-Star break.

Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart, who has missed the past month with a calf strain, expects to return to the lineup Thursday night against the Brooklyn Nets.

According to ESPN’s Tim McMahon, San Antonio Spurs head coach and president Gregg Popovich has announced that the Spurs and 15-year veteran LaMarcus Aldridge have agreed to mutually part ways. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarows...

The Toronto Raptors have signed forward-center Henry Ellenson to a 10-day contract. Ellenson 6-foot-10, 240 pounds, averaged a team-high 21.2 points, 8.2 rebounds and 30.6 minutes in 15 games (13 starts) with Raptors 905...

After being bought out by the Detroit Pistons last week, veteran forward Blake Griffin signed a minimum contract with the Brooklyn Nets that had the entire NBA world discussing superteams and where Griffin is at this poi...

According to ESPN’s Chris Haynes, the Los Angeles Lakers have “serious interest” in signing Cleveland Cavaliers center Andre Drummond if the two-time All-Star reaches a contract buyout with the Cavs after the trade...

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