4:47 PM ET Saturday’s game between the Indiana Pacers and Phoenix Suns at Phoenix Suns Arena has been postponed, the NBA announced Thursday. Because of ongoing contact tracing within the Suns, the team does not have the league-required eight available players to proceed with the Pacers. That brings the leaguewide total to nine games postponed

1:52 AM ET The Los Angeles Lakers finished off an unblemished road trip on Wednesday, winning the three games by a combined 64 points, and they set a franchise record in the process by beginning the season 7-0 away from home. After Lakers coach Frank Vogel informed the team its 128-99 win over the Oklahoma

3:55 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN Zion Williamson did not play in Wednesday night’s 111-106 loss to the LA Clippers because of the league’s health and safety protocols, the New Orleans Pelicans announced Wednesday afternoon. It is unclear whether Williamson will miss more than one game. “He had inconclusive [COVID-19 test] results and the timing became

Jan 12, 2021 As the NBA tightened coronavirus protocols to try to preserve a season teetering amid positive tests, thinning rosters and game postponements, the league made a dramatic change that most franchises had wanted all along: the closing off of rooms to non-team guests in road hotels. The NBA and National Basketball Players Association

11:31 PM ET Disgruntled superstar James Harden said the Houston Rockets are “just not good enough” after the team’s second consecutive blowout loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night, adding that he doesn’t believe the team can improve enough to be a contender. “I love this city. I literally have done everything that

7:00 AM ET Still early into his second season, a brief polling of Zion Williamson surveyors verified why excitement has followed him since his early teens. “If he gets an angle on you going to the basket, it’s over. He’s already one of the most devastating interior scorers in the league,” one scout said. “Him

5:02 PM ET The NBA continues to grapple with COVID-19-related and contact-tracing issues. The league’s health and safety protocols have sidelined players; games have been postponed; and teams have been forced to take the court with the minimum eight active players. Amid thinning rosters and growing concern across the league, the NBA has no plans

12:55 PM ET ESPN News Services Four Mavericks players have COVID-19 after two more rotation players tested positive Monday, leading to the postponement of Monday’s game in Dallas with the Pelicans, sources told ESPN’s Zach Lowe and Tim MacMahon. As of Sunday night, there were four Dallas players on the COVID-19 protocol list, the newest

Jan 10, 2021 The Los Angeles Lakers exchanged DeMarcus Cousins‘ roster spot for Markieff Morris back in February. In Cousins’ first game against his former team Sunday, he and Morris got in a testy exchange of their own. Neither player ended up finishing the game. Morris and Cousins were called for double technical fouls with

2:36 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA fined the Philadelphia 76ers $25,000 on Monday for violating the league’s injury reporting rules. After Ben Simmons wasn’t on the injury report Friday, when Philadelphia had half its team in the NBA’s health and safety protocols after Seth Curry tested positive for COVID-19 the day before, the Sixers