8:00 AM ET NBA Insiders Which underperforming teams should hit the panic button? The defending champion Milwaukee Bucks and the team they beat to reach the Finals, the Atlanta Hawks, are both under .500 to start the season. Can the Bucks get healthy and begin a climb toward the top of the Eastern Conference, and

6:40 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton is practicing with his teammates again and expects to play Wednesday against the Los Angeles Lakers after missing eight games due to a positive COVID-19 test. “I’ve been working out the last couple of days here while guys were on the road,” Middleton

5:42 AM ET Marc J. Spears The first NBA games in the United Arab Emirates will take place next preseason, the league announced Tuesday. The NBA and the Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi have agreed to a multiyear partnership, starting with two preseason contests next year. The two exhibitions will take place

6:28 PM ET The Brooklyn Nets will enter their highly anticipated meeting with the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday short-handed, without sharpshooter Joe Harris and veteran Paul Millsap. While All-Star Kevin Durant (sore right shoulder) isn’t listed on the injury report, the Nets ruled out starting swingman Harris due to a left ankle sprain suffered

2:17 AM ET Jamal Collier LOS ANGELES — Every time Chicago Bulls forward DeMar DeRozan has come to play in Los Angeles during his 13-year NBA career, the games have been special for him, but the Bulls’ 100-90 victory over the LA Clippers on Sunday at Staples Center carried a bit more weight. DeRozan, who

8:00 AM ET The NBA’s last remaining one-loss team suffered its second defeat when the Golden State Warriors fell to the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday. Stephen Curry kicked off the week with a 50-point performance against the Atlanta Hawks — and dropped 40 against the Chicago Bulls on Friday — but was 7-of-22 from the

10:27 PM ET Atlanta Hawks forward De’Andre Hunter will undergo surgery to repair a right wrist injury on Monday and is expected to miss eight weeks, the team announced Sunday night. Hunter injured the wrist in a loss to the Golden State Warriors on Nov. 8. He missed Atlanta’s next game in Utah but played

Nov 12, 2021 The NBA’s probe into possible pre-free-agency tampering centered on the sign-and-trade acquisitions of Chicago’s Lonzo Ball and Miami’s Kyle Lowry appears to have reached the advanced stages, sources told ESPN on Friday. The NBA has conducted numerous interviews with team executives and player agents and has gathered electronic messaging of front-office executives

Nov 12, 2021 Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert and Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner were among four players fined by the NBA on Friday after the two players got into a scuffle late in Thursday night’s game. Gobert was fined $35,000 for initiating the on-court altercation, while Turner received a $25,000 fine for escalating it,

9:37 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers top assistant coach Dave Joerger is leaving the team for several weeks to undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatments for a form of “head and neck” cancer, he told ESPN. Joerger, 47, has undergone treatments while coaching for the past two weeks — missing only one road game — but the