7:53 PM ET Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum is set to return from a left foot fracture on Tuesday against the New Orleans Pelicans. McCollum, who has missed two months with the injury, was not on the team’s injury report for Tuesday’s game. McCollum had gotten off to a blistering start to the season

7:00 AM ET Tony Bennett’s five fellow NBA alumni coaching in the 2021 NCAA tournament can only hope Bennett has started a trend. When Bennett’s Virginia Cavaliers became college basketball’s most recent national champions in April 2019, the ex-Charlotte Hornet became just the fifth person to both play minutes in a meaningful NBA game and

12:25 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Don Nelson still can’t believe his luck. The Hall of Fame coach still remembers sitting at the 2009 NIT quarterfinals at St. Mary’s College watching a young Davidson guard named Stephen Curry move up and down the floor. While the rest of the world seemed to focus on Curry’s

Mar 14, 2021 ESPN News Services Carmelo Anthony moved into 11th place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, passing Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon by hitting a pull-up jumper with 9 minutes, 46 seconds left in the fourth quarter of the Portland Trail Blazers‘ 125-121 win at the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night. Olajuwon, a

Mar 13, 2021 NEW YORK — James Harden has passed Larry Bird on the NBA’s all-time scoring list and now sits at 34th overall. Harden reached the milestone by scoring 24 points on Saturday night in the Brooklyn Nets‘ 100-95 win over the Detroit Pistons. “We all know how good Larry was and the things

3:04 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN In his first game since undergoing surgery in January to remove a cancerous mass on his kidney, Caris LeVert made his Indiana Pacers debut with 13 points and six rebounds in 27 minutes to help his team defeat the Phoenix Suns 122-111 on Saturday. LeVert admitted to feeling “heavy legs”

9:52 PM ET The Los Angeles Lakers will be without starting center Marc Gasol for at least two more games as the big man continues to be away from the team because of the league’s health and safety protocols, coach Frank Vogel said Saturday. Gasol has already missed three games, spanning back to before the

Mar 11, 2021 Perhaps no event in recent history has so clearly underlined how integral sports are to American culture as the COVID-19 pandemic. A 30 for 30 podcast released late last year, “March 11, 2020” tells the story of a day that started in one reality and ended in a new one. Sports fans

Mar 12, 2021 The Oklahoma City Thunder have traded guard Hamidou Diallo to the Detroit Pistons for guard Svi Mykhailiuk and a 2027 second-round draft pick, the team announced Saturday. The emergence of second-year guard Lu Dort made Diallo expendable, especially considering he will be a restricted free agent this summer. The Pistons consider Diallo

11:32 AM ET Caris LeVert will make his long-awaited Indiana Pacers debut on Saturday against the Phoenix Suns, he said after Friday night’s 105-100 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. LeVert, 26, underwent surgery to remove a small cancerous mass on his left kidney in late January. The issue was discovered during a physical exam