5:30 PM ET Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic is listed as questionable for Sunday’s Game 4 against the LA Clippers due to a cervical strain. Mavs coach Rick Carlisle said he thinks Doncic will play, “but we’ll see how he feels tomorrow.” After the Mavs’ Game 3 loss Friday night, Doncic said he started experiencing

3:56 PM ET Howard University big man Makur Maker, the first five-star recruit to choose to play at a historically Black college or university, is declaring for the 2021 NBA draft, sources told ESPN. Maker, 20, won’t sign with an agent so as to keep open the option of returning to Howard for his sophomore

7:00 AM ET NBA Insiders The 2021 NBA playoffs are less than one week old, but we’ve already seen some epic superstar performances, upsets brewing and plenty of fans back in the stands. Can Luka Doncic and the Mavericks send the LA Clippers home early? Are the New York Knicks and Atlanta Hawks headed for

7:41 PM ET LOS ANGELES — A day after Los Angeles Lakers guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope‘s bruised left quad forced him out of Game 3 of L.A.’s first-round playoff series with the Phoenix Suns, the injury showed slight improvement and an MRI administered on Friday revealed no tear and no structural damage in the left knee,

6:06 AM ET Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks wasn’t on social media Tuesday night when his starting power forward Blake Griffin started trending after two thunderous dunks over Boston Celtics center Robert Williams III. But he wasn’t surprised that the former Slam Dunk champion could still do that. The GM of the Brooklyn Nets,

2:45 AM ET LOS ANGELES — By now, Phoenix Suns head coach Monty Williams knows what’s going on with star point guard Chris Paul by the look on his face. There’s a look Paul gets when he’s locked in — something between completely in control and about to jump into any fray — and then

2:27 PM ET NEW YORK — Jeff Green has strained his plantar fascia and will be reevaluated in 10 days, sidelining him for the remainder of the Brooklyn Nets‘ first-round series against the Boston Celtics. While he is out, Green will continue to travel with the team while working on his rehab, coach Steve Nash

1:06 PM ET The Los Angeles Lakers aren’t going anywhere, signing a 20-year extension to their lease at Staples Center. The deal with building owner AEG means the team will remain through 2041. The Lakers began play at Staples Center in November 1999 and have won six NBA titles in that span. The team and

6:10 PM ET Meyer Orbach, the second-largest shareholder in the Minnesota Timberwolves, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Wednesday alleging that owner Glen Taylor’s pending sale of the franchise to Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez is in violation of the franchise’s partnership agreement, according to a copy of the complaint obtained

5:30 AM ET PHOENIX — With the Los Angeles Lakers‘ once 15-point lead whittled down to just one and 16,000 screaming fans sensing a 2-0 series lead for their Suns, LeBron James and Anthony Davis took over Game 2 on Tuesday. Davis blocked Deandre Ayton‘s hook shot with 3:15 remaining, initiating a 55-second sequence in