Basketball News

Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant was held to 16 points in Saturday's Game 3 loss to Boston and said he has been "thinking too much" rather than just playing.

Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert linked up for a "metaphoric" game-winning alley-oop to tie their series with Dallas.

Jordan Poole's emergence as a scoring threat has helped give Golden State the flow and feel of its championship teams. "They allow me just to be me," he said.

Joel Embiid will require surgery to address the ligament tear in his right thumb, but that procedure will wait until after the Sixers' season, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

With the Nets on the brink of elimination and playing without much continuity, coach Steve Nash said he still doesn't wonder what might have been had Kyrie Irving gotten vaccinated.

Duke freshman AJ Griffin is heading to the NBA, becoming the fifth Blue Devils player in the past week to declare early for the draft a few weeks removed from the team's appearance in the Final Four.

No N.B.A. team has won a playoff series after losing the first three games. That's the Nets' challenge now, and Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant don't look ready.

Memphis Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins was critical of the referees in Saturday night's Game 4, saying it was "one of the most poorly officiated games I've ever seen in my NBA career."