11:54 PM ET NEW YORK — The New York Knicks were being blown out by double digits in their home opener, New York fans had viciously booed Dennis Smith Jr. and yet with three minutes remaining in what would be an ugly Knicks loss, the Madison Square Garden crowd was on its feet hollering with

1:51 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday will miss Saturday’s game against the Houston Rockets with a left knee sprain but should be day-to-day in his recovery, multiple sources told ESPN. Holiday injured the knee when he drove down the lane with 5:18 left in the third quarter in Friday’s loss

11:48 AM ET Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has been ruled out of Saturday’s game at the Detroit Pistons, the team announced. Embiid complained of discomfort in his right ankle after the team’s season-opening win against the Boston Celtics on Wednesday. He has since been diagnosed with a sprained ankle. Embiid also took an elbow

3:42 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Anthony Davis earned six All-Star selections with the New Orleans Pelicans by playing power forward, but he earned his first win with the Los Angeles Lakers by playing center. Lakers coach Frank Vogel moved Davis from the 4 to the 5 at halftime on Friday night, sparking a 95-86

2:56 PM ET Jimmy Butler‘s debut with the Miami Heat has been put off for a few more games. Butler’s girlfriend gave birth to the couple’s child Wednesday night, coach Erik Spoelstra said, so the Heat’s high-profile offseason addition will not travel with the team on its two-game road trip to play the Milwaukee Bucks

Oct 22, 2019 Three nights into the 2019-20 NBA season and the league leaders in net rating are … the Phoenix Suns. Just like we all predicted. That’s merely one sign not to overreact to 48 minutes of regular-season basketball. Still, every game matters, and a few early trends already have emerged that I’m eager

3:28 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — The Golden State Warriors officially moved into their dream home Thursday night and then proceeded to live out a nightmare in an embarrassing 141-122 loss to the LA Clippers in the first ever regular-season game at Chase Center. After watching his team get run up and down the floor

6:38 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Los Angeles Lakers‘ experiment starting LeBron James at point guard will be short lived. Rajon Rondo is coming for the No. 1 spot. “I’ve given it a lot of thought and I think he’ll be in the starting lineup a lot,” Lakers coach Frank Vogel said of

8:18 AM ET IT WAS THE bottom of the ninth inning inside Houston’s Minute Maid Park, and James Harden and Russell Westbrook sported matching orange Astros jerseys, taking in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series from the first row behind the backstop. Some 20 feet away, Astros All-Star Jose Altuve had just stepped

1:22 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers spent the offseason building a team focused on a very specific identity: being big and physical and imposing their will on their opponents at both ends of the court. And, if Philadelphia’s season-opening 107-93 victory over the Boston Celtics at Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday