4:02 PM ET Esports and gaming organization FaZe Clan has announced the signing of LeBron “Bronny” James Jr. The news was posted via two FaZe Clan tweets on Sunday afternoon with one including a hype video of some of Bronny’s highlights in basketball, as well as video games, namely Fortnite and Call of Duty: Modern
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6:56 AM ET As we move into the second round of the 2020 NBA playoffs, Sunday brings the first postseason matchup between the Boston Celtics and the Toronto Raptors (ESPN and the ESPN app, 1 p.m. ET). The Eastern Conference semifinals continue Monday with Game 1 of the Miami Heat–Milwaukee Bucks series, another compelling matchup.
7:33 PM ET When the Milwaukee Bucks left their hotel on Wednesday to ride over to AdventHealth Arena, they were an elite NBA team from a small market looking to complete a commonplace task: dispatching a No. 8 seed en route to the second round of the postseason. But in the three days since they
10:33 AM ET ESPN News Services Clifford Robinson, an early star in UConn’s rise to power who helped lead the Portland Trail Blazers to two NBA Finals, has died at the age of 53, the teams confirmed Saturday. No cause of death was given, although former Huskies coach Jim Calhoun said Robinson had a stroke
7:17 AM ET After three days off, the 2020 NBA playoffs resume Saturday when the Milwaukee Bucks face the Orlando Magic. These games were scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday but were postponed after the Bucks chose not to play Wednesday afternoon in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, with teams across the
11:10 PM ET Chadwick Boseman, the star of “Black Panther” died on Friday after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 43. Boseman, who portrayed baseball icon Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film “42”, died on the same day of Major League Baseball’s annual celebration of Jackie Robinson Day, in honor of the color
12:12 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, said Thursday that NBA protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are “absurd and silly,” while White House senior adviser Jared Kushner told CNBC that the players were “very fortunate” to be in a
7:24 AM ET NBA Insiders NBA players spent the past week publicly and privately grappling with the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before refusing to play in games Wednesday, setting off protests by athletes across American sports. What does this historic week mean for the NBA and other leagues? What were
1:13 AM ET Portland Trail Blazers star guard Damian Lillard will leave the NBA’s bubble in Florida and return to Portland for further examination of his sprained right knee, the team announced Wednesday. The announcement came hours after the Trail Blazers’ scheduled first-round series playoff game against the Los Angeles Lakers was postponed, along with
12:02 PM ET ESPN News Services NBA players have decided to resume the playoffs, a source tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Thursday’s three playoff games are postponed, the league announced. Players held a meeting at 11 a.m. ET and continue to have discussions about the timing of resuming the playoffs — with an expectation that a