Basketball News

Lakers coach JJ Redick said his team had the "best practice we've had in months" but bemoaned the lackluster approach that led to a blowout loss in Game 1.

Detroit Pistons big man Isaiah Stewart is out for Monday's Game 2 against the New York Knicks due to right knee inflammation.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday that television ratings from the opening weekend of the playoffs were the best the league has seen in about a quarter century.

The Knicks-Pistons first-round playoff series is even -- and Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said afterward the free throws need to be as well.