6:53 PM ET Dealing with the coronavirus was the priority for the NBA in 2020-21, but as the end of the season nears, data suggests the league saw a dramatic increase in injuries not related to COVID-19. Some team health officials said the effects will drive how they manage player health for next season. The

8:17 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers says he keeps a “catalogue” of video clips showing what he believes to be unfair whistles against his All-Star defender, Ben Simmons. Rivers says he wants the league to officiate Simmons correctly, as the Sixers will rely on Simmons’ defense, in part, to dig out

7:00 AM ET After a thrilling play-in tournament and opening-round action that saw the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers get bounced by the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks sweep the reigning Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat, we’ve reached the conference semifinals. Will the LA Clippers ride their Game 7 momentum into their series with

1:50 PM ET Marc J. Spears The Golden State Warriors and longtime assistant coach Jarron Collins have mutually agreed to part ways in his quest to pursue head-coaching and associate-head-coach opportunities, he told ESPN’s The Undefeated on Monday. Collins, 42, joined the Warriors before the team’s 2014-15 NBA championship campaign as a player-development coach. The

Jun 6, 2021 LOS ANGELES — As a 19-point fourth-quarter lead shrunk to seven with two minutes to go and anxiety began to spread at Staples Center, Kawhi Leonard got the kind of help he did not get last year in Game 7. Leonard hit Reggie Jackson and Marcus Morris Sr. for consecutive 3-pointers to

7:00 AM ET The opening round of the NBA playoffs is complete. And what a finale it was: a LA Clippers‘ clutch Game 7 performance against Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks sent Kawhi Leonard, Paul George & Co. to a Western Conference semifinals meeting with the Utah Jazz. Before the Clippers and Mavs duked

9:08 PM ET THIS ISN’T WHAT Kristaps Porzingis expected when he arrived in Dallas. As the centerpiece of a blockbuster trade, he anticipated forming one of the NBA’s most potent duos with Luka Doncic, a fellow rising star. Porzingis anticipated it’d be a 1A-1B sort of situation. Doncic has certainly held up his end of

6:32 PM ET The Philadelphia 76ers had seen enough in the first half, when the Atlanta Hawks bludgeoned them 74-54 behind 25 points and seven assists from Trae Young. As he did to Reggie Bullock and the rest of the New York Knicks backcourt in the Hawks’ first-round victory, Young diced up Danny Green in

Jun 5, 2021 LOS ANGELES — The Lakers thought they would be gathering as a team Friday to catch a flight to Phoenix for Game 7 of their first-round series against the Suns. Instead, they met for exit interviews to rehash a season that went awry. “I think when you fall short of the goal

12:10 AM ET Months ago, when Blake Griffin came to terms that he was going to forego $13.3 million to get out of his contract with the Detroit Pistons, he’d come to terms with the fact that he was no longer a franchise player in body or mind. But that did not mean he could