5:03 PM ET ESPN News Services The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament is known as one of the biggest fishing events in the country. Fittingly, Michael Jordan entered the 62nd installment of the annual tournament and made an immediate impact. Jordan and the crew on his boat, Catch 23, reeled in a 442-pound blue marlin

1:07 PM ET NEW YORK — The Madison Square Garden Co. has issued a statement, eight days after New York Knicks owner James Dolan sent an email to the staff explaining why the company would not publicly comment on the outrage that followed George Floyd’s death. On Tuesday, the Knicks’ team account tweeted a statement

2:52 PM ET Pro basketball player Kerron Johnson, the brother of Detroit Lions running back Kerryon Johnson, has returned home to Alabama after spending months stuck in Romania because of the coronavirus pandemic. Johnson, who had been searching for flights from Europe since mid-March to get back to the United States, finally found a flight

3:24 PM ET San Antonio Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge will miss the remainder of the NBA season after having surgery on his right shoulder, the team announced Monday. The procedure was performed on April 24. Aldridge initially injured the shoulder during a game against Utah on Feb. 21. He played in the Spurs’ next game,

12:55 PM ET Charlotte Hornets guard Malik Monk has been reinstated following his suspension for violating the NBA’s anti-drug program. Monk’s suspension began Feb. 26 and was set to continue until he was determined to be in full compliance with the program. “That’s been a while now,” Hornets general manager Mitch Kupchak said Monday of

10:30 AM ET It has been nearly three months since the last NBA game was played. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and man, there’s a lot to love about every team that’s going to compete for the 2020 NBA championship in Orlando next month. Now that the league’s board of governors has

6:54 PM ET AS THE NBA’S plans to restart its season at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida, were coming into focus last week, Chris Paul and Bob Iger went for a walk. Paul, the president of the National Basketball Players Association, and Iger, the executive chairman of the Walt Disney

11:52 PM ET Fearful of significant setbacks in the development of young players over months of inactivity, several teams left out of this season’s regular-season resumption in Orlando, Florida, have proposed ideas for regional mini summer leagues, training camps and organized team activities, sources told ESPN. As the rest of the NBA prepares to restart

8:08 PM ET The NBA is working on the mechanisms that will be used to replace participants in this season’s resumption in the event of positive coronavirus tests or serious injuries in the Orlando bubble environment. Sources told ESPN that the league and teams are already discussing how teams will be able to utilize players

5:31 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN As the NBA continues to prepare for its return to the court next month in Orlando, it has determined that the order in the standings will be determined by winning percentage, league sources told ESPN. That decision could play a pivotal role in how the race to take part in