2:02 PM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James sat out Thursday’s 113-97 loss to the Houston Rockets because of a sore right groin, the team announced. James, 35, missed 27 games last season because of a groin injury suffered Christmas Day. This season, he sat out games in December

12:02 PM ET Few could have imagined the red-hot start that both the Indiana Pacers and Phoenix Suns have gotten off to in the NBA bubble with 3-0 records. For Pacers forward T.J. Warren, the setting in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, suits him perfectly: all basketball, all the time. Never mind the fact that he’s

6:35 AM ET The NBA bubble is in full swing. The race for the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference looks loaded, and Toronto Raptors are reminding people not to sleep on the defending champs. Now that we are one week into this grand experiment in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, let’s take a look

11:00 PM ET A few weeks before the NBA postponed its season in March, Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum dropped 41 points at Staples Center in a last-possession loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. After the game, LeBron James awarded the NBA’s ultimate seal of approval when he posted on Instagram a shot of himself

1:00 PM ET After clinching the West’s top seed on Monday against the Utah Jazz — the first time the Los Angeles Lakers have claimed it since 2010 — the satisfaction was in plain sight from LeBron James. “It feels damn good to be No. 1 in the West. They said I couldn’t do it,”

8:35 PM ET LA Clippers guard Lou Williams said he was grieving the loss of a mentor for weeks, but that was overshadowed by his decision to stop to eat at a gentlemen’s club after attending a viewing. The reigning Sixth Man of the Year spoke for the first time since emerging from a 10-day

5:39 PM ET WNBA players are wearing “Vote Warnock” T-shirts to games this week to support Rev. Raphael Warnock, who is challenging Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) for her Senate seat. Last month Loeffler wrote a letter to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert objecting to the league’s promotion of Black Lives Matter — which is

12:00 PM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Ten years ago, the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat were engaged in a heated rivalry for Eastern Conference supremacy. Today, as the Celtics and Heat square off inside the NBA’s bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort, things aren’t quite at the fever pitch they were when

7:20 AM ET When the Miami Heat promoted Erik Spoelstra out of the video room and into an assistant coaching position, there was one problem: Spoelstra owned no suits. The league’s dress code for coaches, codified in a memo sent before the season, mandates every coach wear a dress shirt (or “dress sweater”) and sport

9:41 PM ET Michael Porter Jr. texted Michael Malone three times over the past few days, telling him he can do better and pleading with the Denver Nuggets coach to stick with the talented rookie. “I said, ‘Michael, I’m not going anywhere,'” Malone texted back. “I’m gonna stay with you.” Porter rewarded Malone and reminded