Dec 7, 2020 LOS ANGELES — LeBron James says that the most satisfying part of the two-year, $85 million contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers that he signed last week isn’t the money. It isn’t the fact that it assures him 20 seasons in the NBA. It isn’t the pride in knowing that he

6:59 AM ET The league looks a little different since our last rundown of all 30 teams. Star guards Russell Westbrook and John Wall swapped teams. Jrue Holiday and Gordon Hayward changed uniforms. The Philadelphia 76ers got a new head coach and a new president of basketball operations. What about the Los Angeles Lakers? L.A.

8:27 PM ET Denver Nuggets guard Monte Morris has agreed to a three-year, $27 million contract extension, his agent, Ron Shade of Octagon, told ESPN on Monday night. Morris, who could’ve become an unrestricted free agent next summer, is yet another draft and development success story of Denver president of basketball operations Tim Connelly’s and

3:10 PM ET Miami Heat All-Star center Bam Adebayo gave his mom the birthday present of a lifetime on Sunday. After years of struggling while living together in a single-wide trailer, Adebayo bought his mom, Marilyn Blount, a home she can call her own. Just a couple of weeks after signing a five-year max extension

11:52 AM ET The Orlando Magic‘s Terrence Ross has a non-displaced, hairline fracture of the big toe on his left foot, the team announced Monday. The injury was diagnosed through an MRI after Ross had been experiencing discomfort. He will still take part in noncontact practice activities and will be evaluated, the team said. The

2:16 PM ET Associated Press The Portland Trail Blazers have closed their facility for deep cleaning after three positive COVID-19 tests came back in a span of four days. Sunday was to have been the first full day of training camp for the Blazers. They, along with all other NBA teams, began having players back

3:39 PM ET The LA Clippers entered the first day of training camp motivated and “pissed off” on Sunday, according to point guard Patrick Beverley. Beverley said the sting of the Clippers’ 3-1 second-round collapse to the Denver Nuggets still resonates with him and motivates his teammates to regain their fight and hit back this

2:33 PM ET San Antonio Spurs guard DeMar DeRozan said “everything is good” with him and his family after an intruder entered their house while they were home over two weeks ago. TMZ reported that on Nov. 19 that DeRozan heard a commotion in a part of the family’s Los Angeles-area house that included one

3:07 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA released the first half of its regular-season schedule Friday, as it continues to adjust to the new reality placed upon it by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than what typically happens — the NBA announcing its full 82-game schedule — the league instead unveiled only half of its

10:35 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Anthony Davis said he signed the lengthiest contract he possibly could to stay with the Los Angeles Lakers — inking a five-year, $190 million pact Thursday — in part as an insurance policy should he suffer a career-threatening injury. “That could have been a two-year, three-year deal,” Davis told