11:27 AM ET Israeli wing Yovel Zoosman has submitted paperwork to the league office to make himself eligible for the 2019 NBA draft. “I am extremely happy to share that I will be declaring for the 2019 NBA draft in June,” Zoosman told ESPN. “Until then, I am totally committed and focused on helping my
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9:39 PM ET Houston Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni has been hospitalized since Friday due to an intestinal virus but expects to be released Tuesday and rejoin the team before the playoffs. D’Antoni, 67, has been under observation since Friday at Memorial-Hermann Hospital in Houston and will miss his third consecutive game when the Rockets play
4:47 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball has committed to work with Creative Artists Agency after mutually parting ways with his previous agent, Harrison Gaines, last week. “After thinking about this decision over the last few weeks, I concluded that CAA made the most sense for my career both on and off the
The Poptoss Batting Tee is a revolutionary hitting aid that develops a player’s swing, hand-eye coordination and timing unlike anything else on the market. It’s also completely self-contained so there is nothing to replace, recharge, or plug in. It uses a pneumatic timer which is adjustable from 4-15 seconds to allow a player to load
9:58 AM ET Time for our eighth annual Luke Walton All-Stars — an ode to bit players who bounce around the fringes of the NBA before landing in new roles where things click. (Read about the origins of the column here.) Joakim Noah, Memphis Grizzlies (captain) Noah finished fourth in MVP voting in 2014. The
1:04 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Dwyane Wade’s career all but ended Sunday. Yes, Wade and his Miami Heat still are mathematically alive with two games remaining in this final regular season of the Hall of Fame shooting guard’s career. But after the way Sunday played out — with Miami losing a heartbreaker in
7:33 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Another frustrating finish left the Miami Heat‘s playoff hopes hanging by a thread. An untimely whistle by an official led to a disjointed final sequence in regulation, and the Heat wound up losing 117-109 in overtime to the Toronto Raptors on Sunday. Miami had the ball in the
10:11 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — After Kenny Atkinson fulfills his postgame duties, loosens his tie and boards the team plane to Indianapolis, he plans to have a glass of red wine. The head coach of the Brooklyn Nets is cautious to get too high off a win over the Milwaukee Bucks, but he
9:14 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver has become focused on the candidacy of former Detroit and New Orleans general manager Jeff Bower to assume a high-ranking front-office role with the Suns, league sources told ESPN on Saturday. Sarver has begun to inform other serious candidates that he’s retreating from them and