Jun 11, 2021 Portland Trail Blazers forward Carmelo Anthony, Sacramento Kings forward Harrison Barnes, Milwaukee Bucks guard Jrue Holiday, Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris and Golden State Warriors forward Juan Toscano-Anderson are the finalists for the inaugural Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion award, the NBA announced Friday. The award, named after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the league’s

5:06 PM ET Serge Ibaka‘s first season with the LA Clippers is over after he underwent back surgery Thursday, the team announced. Ibaka missed 30 straight games due to his back injury before returning for the final two games of the regular season. He played in the Clippers’ first two playoff games of the first

7:00 AM ET NBA Insiders The NBA’s conference semifinals are in full swing. The Milwaukee Bucks just saved their postseason with a nail-biting Game 3 victory over the Brooklyn Nets. Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz just put the LA Clippers in another 2-0 hole. In Friday night’s matchups, the Philadelphia 76ers and Atlanta Hawks

3:00 AM ET Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell writhed in pain on the Vivint Arena court with 12 seconds remaining in Thursday’s Game 2 against the LA Clippers, reaching toward the right ankle that he sprained several weeks ago. Mitchell got up after several seconds, shot his free throws and finished the 117-111 victory that

3:17 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — The LA Clippers find themselves trailing 2-0 for the second straight series, but Kawhi Leonard says his team has “a lot of fight” left in it. The Clippers, though, are going to have to dig deeper than any other team in NBA history to get out of this

Jun 9, 2021 Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James will be changing from No. 23 to No. 6 on his uniform next season, but not to pass on his old number to Anthony Davis, as he intended a couple of years ago. James will don No. 6 for the 2021-22 season and Davis will stay

8:34 PM ET Boston Celtics president Brad Stevens has received permission from teams to interview several assistant coaches for his franchise’s head coaching job, including the LA Clippers‘ Chauncey Billups, sources told ESPN. Stevens started making calls on Wednesday to get the OK to talk to several candidates, including Billups, Milwaukee Bucks‘ Darvin Ham and

2:03 AM ET Chris Paul plans. He planned when he forced a trade out of New Orleans a decade ago. He planned when he creatively leveraged a contract option to get himself to Houston. He planned when he helped change an arcane age rule in the collective bargaining agreement that enabled him the chance to

4:35 PM ET LeBron James intends to change his Los Angeles Lakers jersey number to No. 6 next season, a source confirmed to ESPN. James, who has worn No. 6 as a member of Team USA and wears the same digit on his practice jersey, had worn No. 23 during his first three seasons with

3:12 AM ET Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone felt a bad kind of déjà vu as he watched his team fade during the second half of Monday night’s 122-105 loss to the Suns in Phoenix in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series. After seeing his team get blown out by the Portland Trail