8:34 AM ET NBA Insiders After Friday’s release of the new 2020 NBA schedule, it’s time to look ahead at the games, players and teams that will be most compelling when the season resumes on July 30 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. Which playoff races are most important, which
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7:38 PM ET The NBA season will resume with LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard and Zion Williamson highlighting a doubleheader to open the restart in Orlando, Florida. The NBA released its schedule for games in Orlando with the season resuming on July 30. Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans tip off the restart against the Utah
11:11 AM ET ESPN News Services The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association said 16 players tested positive for the coronavirus in the first wave of mandatory tests done in preparation for the restart of the season. Those 16 players were part of a pool of 302 tested on Tuesday — a 5.3% rate
2:06 PM ET It started eight months ago with a tweet: Chris Murphy, a Democratic U.S. senator from Connecticut, told the world how much he enjoyed Draymond Green‘s op-ed in The Washington Post labeling the NCAA “a dictatorship” and calling for increased compensation to college athletes. Green reached out to Murphy’s office to thank him
4:48 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA has shared with its players a security plan to help enforce the health and safety protocols it announced last week and secure its campus at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex for the resumption of the 2019-20 season, league sources told ESPN. The league will use local,
9:59 AM ET Vince Carter confirmed that he has retired from the NBA, ending his 22-year career. Carter, 43, announced his retirement on The Ringer’s “Winging It With Vince Carter” podcast, saying he is “officially done playing basketball professionally.” Carter initially announced last year, when he signed a one-year deal with the Atlanta Hawks, that
10:39 PM ET NEW YORK — New York Knicks president Leon Rose said Wednesday that he intends to have the next permanent coach of the franchise in place by the end of July. Speaking in his first interview since he was hired in March, Rose told MSG Network’s Mike Breen that he intends to have
1:42 PM ET Indiana Pacers guard Malcolm Brogdon has tested positive for the coronavirus, he said in a statement Wednesday. “I recently tested positive for the Covid virus and am currently in quarantine,” his statement said. “I’m doing well, feeling well and progressing well. I plan to join my teammates in Orlando for the resumption
6:51 AM ET Tim Bontemps Andrew Lopez While other NBA players started working out in their home markets this week to prepare for training camp, Zion Williamson never left. The New Orleans Pelicans‘ rookie phenom has been a regular at the team’s facility throughout the hiatus, one of several players the league granted exceptions to