3:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball continued to distance himself from Big Baller Brand, adding a new tattoo over a previous tattoo of the BBB logo on his arm. Ball confirmed Tuesday night that he covered up his Big Baller Brand tattoo of red and black with a new tattoo

12:24 AM ET MILWAUKEE — Chris Paul had a message for MVP voters Tuesday night: The Houston Rockets‘ 108-94 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks shouldn’t matter when ballots are cast. Paul admits that he’s biased in his belief that his Rockets co-star James Harden should repeat as MVP. But he was adamant that Harden’s relative

4:52 PM ET Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic underwent surgery on Tuesday and is expected to make a full recovery from a season-ending injury to his left leg, the team announced in a release. There is no timetable for his return to basketball activity. Nurkic, 24, fractured his left tibia and fibula with 2

3:52 AM ET PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic suffered compound fractures to the tibia and fibula of his lower left leg in a double-overtime win against the Brooklyn Nets on Monday night and will be out indefinitely. Nurkic was jumping for a rebound and came down awkwardly in a tangle of

12:11 AM ET Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Rudy Gobert scored a season-high 27 points and set the single-season NBA dunk record to fuel the Utah Jazz to a 125-92 victory Monday night over the Phoenix Suns, who got 59 points from Devin Booker. Booker topped his previous season high of 55, set in

2:35 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Cal Ramsey, who starred at NYU in the 1950s and went on to play and broadcast for the New York Knicks, died Monday. He was 81. The Knicks said he died of cardiac arrest at The Riverside Premier Rehabilitation and Healing Center in Manhattan. After his playing

1:53 AM ET LOS ANGELES — With the playoffs already out of the picture, LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers played for pride in Sunday’s 111-106 win over the Sacramento Kings — and to appease the mythical basketball gods. “I would never cheat myself,” James told Spectrum SportsNet in his on-court interview after recording

10:13 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — The NBA’s winningest team couldn’t stop watching as the NCAA’s biggest show — and most-hyped prospect — were pushed to the brink on Sunday afternoon. Giannis Antetokounmpo, Pat Connaughton, Brook Lopez, Tony Snell, Bonzie Colson and a gaggle of reporters were glued to two television screens playing the

1:21 AM ET Kyrie Irving appeared to question Brad Stevens’ coaching strategy after Kemba Walker scored 18 of his game-high 36 points in the fourth quarter to rally Charlotte to a 124-117 victory over the Celtics. The Hornets closed Saturday night’s home game on a 30-5 run that included all 18 of Walker’s fourth-quarter points.

1:27 AM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — The fans at Oracle Arena expressed their appreciation for Dirk Nowitzki, an opponent who will always be linked with the building the Golden State Warriors are leaving after this season, throughout the 21-year veteran’s final appearance in the arena Saturday night. That included a standing ovation before the beginning