6:05 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Grizzlies no longer have home-court advantage, but they say they didn’t lose their confidence with their Game 1 loss to the Golden State Warriors. Having lost Game 1 before rebounding to win their first-round series against Minnesota, the Grizzlies are leaning on that experience as they try
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5:33 PM ET The Phoenix Suns have been fined $25,000 for failing to disclose Devin Booker‘s injury status for their Game 6 first-round win over the New Orleans Pelicans in “an accurate and timely manner,” the NBA announced Saturday. Booker suffered a Grade 1 sprain to his right hamstring in Game 2 against New Orleans
6:49 PM ET Jamal CollierESPN BOSTON — Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo had made two unsuccessful attempts to drive past Boston Celtics forward Grant Williams on a possession midway through the fourth quarter on Sunday, so Antetokounmpo had to get creative. He faked a shot to his left and then turned his body right, gathering
5:27 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Draymond Green was ejected with less than two minutes left in the first half of the Golden State Warriors‘ opening game against the Memphis Grizzlies in their Western Conference semifinal series. As Memphis forward Brandon Clarke went up for a dunk with 1:18 left in the second
5:56 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — As Golden State Warriors superstar guard Stephen Curry took his seat at the podium, he was asked about heading to Memphis for the first two games of the Western Conference Semifinals as the older team, taking on the young, rising team. Before the entirety of the question
1:29 PM ET BOSTON — Celtics star Jaylen Brown plans to play in Sunday’s Game 1 against the Milwaukee Bucks as he battles a right hamstring injury. Brown aggravated the injury Monday in his team’s close-out Game 4 victory over the Brooklyn Nets and needed the time off and treatment between series to be able
5:20 PM ET Golden State Warriors assistant Mike Brown, Brooklyn Nets consultant Steve Clifford and former Warriors coach and current ESPN analyst Mark Jackson are among finalists for the Sacramento Kings‘ head-coaching job, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Saturday. All three have prior head-coaching experience. Sacramento is looking to end a 16-season playoff drought,
9:00 AM ET The NBA postseason is here, and it’s shaping up to be a wide-open chase to the 2022 title. The Phoenix Suns ran away with the league’s best regular-season record — eight games clear of the second-best Memphis Grizzlies. Devin Booker, Chris Paul and the reigning Western Conference champs are on a mission
8:57 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The 76ers said Friday night that superstar center Joel Embiid will be out indefinitely after suffering what the team called a right orbital fracture and mild concussion in Philadelphia’s dominant Game 6 win over the Toronto Raptors a day earlier. Embiid suffered the injury while defending a Pascal Siakam drive
12:41 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — From Luka Doncic‘s point of view, Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic‘s shot at the buzzer felt like it hung in the air for 15 seconds. The Dallas Mavericks led by two points with 4.3 seconds remaining in Thursday’s Game 6. Jazz coach Quin Snyder, with his team’s season