12:56 PM ET Following worldwide suspensions of basketball activities amid the coronavirus outbreak, NBA front office executives, draft prospects, agents and college coaches say they are bracing for the potential impact of a delayed 2020 NBA draft with a heavily reduced pre-draft process. Finishing out this NBA season could mean playing the NBA Finals late

3:12 PM ET NBA Insiders The 2019-20 NBA season began an indefinite hiatus on March 11 after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. When will the league be back, and what will the rest of the season look like? Commissioner Adam Silver initially said that the suspension would last at least

7:57 PM ET Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart and two Los Angeles Lakers players were the latest in the NBA to test positive for coronavirus, the teams announced Thursday. Smart posted a tweet confirming that he had tested positive. The Lakers players were not identified by name in a statement released by the team. I

2:28 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA sent out a memo Thursday afternoon which stated that, starting Friday, all 30 NBA teams must close their practice and training facilities to players and staff until further notice, sources told ESPN. Thursday’s memo was an update on prior ones sent out by the league earlier this week,

2:28 AM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — The Perth Wildcards have been declared National Basketball League champions two days after the last two games of the finals series were canceled because the Sydney Kings refused to travel to Western Australia amid the coronavirus pandemic. Perth was leading the best-of-five game series 2-1 and was set

9:17 PM ET NBA Players Association executive director Michele Roberts said she was “disappointed” in the criticism NBA teams and players have gotten from politicians such as New York City mayor Bill De Blasio for being tested for COVID-19. “There’s nothing irresponsible — if you’ve got that information [that you’ve been exposed] — about trying

12:49 PM ET Less than 24 hours after the Brooklyn Nets announced that four of their players had tested positive for the coronavirus, forward Wilson Chandler said on Twitter that building management asked him to stay out of the common areas of his Brooklyn Heights apartment complex. Chandler wrote that the building’s manager called him

11:02 PM ET After the Brooklyn Nets announced on Tuesday that four of their players tested positive for the coronavirus, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took aim at the NBA team’s ability to get testing that has been unavailable to so many others. “We wish them a speedy recovery. But, with all due

4:09 PM ET Four Brooklyn Nets players have tested positive for the coronavirus, the team announced Tuesday. Of the four players, one is exhibiting symptoms. All four are isolated and are undergoing medical care from team physicians, the team said in a statement. The Nets did not identify which players have tested positive. The four

1:12 PM ET Kiki VanDeWeghe, the NBA’s executive vice president of basketball operations, sent a memo to NCAA coaches Tuesday morning to inform them that the league is accepting applications to the Undergraduate Advisory Committee, which provides feedback to players on potential draft stock. In the memo, VanDeWeghe briefly addressed the “rapidly evolving coronavirus situation,”