6:26 PM ET Milwaukee Bucks point guard Malcolm Brogdon is listed as out for Friday’s Game 3 of his team’s playoff series against the Boston Celtics, according to the NBA’s injury report on Thursday evening. The team could still update his status prior to the game. Brogdon is looking to return from plantar fasciitis in
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2:38 AM ET DENVER — Damian Lillard sat on a stool in a ballroom in sweatpants and sliders at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown on Tuesday with an iPad on his lap, about to head to a film session to comb through Game 1. The Portland Trail Blazers felt like they had played well,
2:32 AM ET DENVER — Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray reaggravated a right thigh injury that kept him out of the final 53 seconds of Game 2 and will undergo treatment over the next 48 hours. Murray missed six of his eight 3-point attempts and finished with 15 points and seven assists, then had to
6:28 PM ET The Houston Rockets are optimistic that star guard James Harden will not have any more problems with his vision in the Western Conference semifinals, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Harden suffered contusions in both eyes and a laceration on the inside of his left eyelid when he was inadvertently hit in the
3:38 AM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green acknowledged that all the chatter surrounding the officiating in Game 1 of his team’s series against the Houston Rockets was “embarrassing” for the game, and he said he was happy that both teams were less demonstrative toward the referees in the Warriors’ 115-109
1:25 AM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — Mike Budenholzer isn’t a big speechmaker. The Milwaukee Bucks went back to the locker room at halftime of Tuesday night’s Game 2 against the Boston Celtics with a four-point lead. Budenholzer didn’t lecture. Instead he reminded his team that this is where Game 1 of the Eastern Conference
5:13 PM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — Golden State Warriors star forward Kevin Durant doesn’t think Houston Rockets guard James Harden is “cheating” the game by playing the way he does. “I wouldn’t say that he has an advantage,” Durant said after the morning shootaround before Game 2 on Tuesday night. “I think everybody, once they
10:02 AM ET Scott Foster, the referee most reviled by the Houston Rockets, has been assigned to call Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Golden State Warriors Tuesday. Foster, a 25-year NBA veteran, has not worked a Rockets game since James Harden publicly criticized him after the superstar fouled out of Houston’s