3:27 AM ET LOS ANGELES — There was precisely one second left on the clock Sunday when Trae Young, the Atlanta Hawks‘ tantalizing rookie, unleashed a floater in the lane that threatened to cap a 15-point comeback for a riveting road win. The ball hung in the air for what felt like an eternity before

6:36 PM ET Tim MacMahon Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Adrian Wojnarowski HOUSTON — Despite Rockets general manager Daryl Morey declaring that Carmelo Anthony is the target of “unfair speculation,” the franchise is strongly considering cutting ties

11:45 PM ET Andre SnellingsESPN The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to trade Jimmy Butler and Justin Patton to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for Robert Covington, Dario Saric, Jerryd Bayless and a second-round pick. On an organizational level, this is a rare win-win deal in which both teams get great value. But on an individual

3:46 AM ET SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The game hadn’t even started yet and LeBron James could feel a throbbing headache come on which he could only surmise was from the smoke that had enveloped downtown Sacramento and the haze hovering inside the Golden 1 Center. Smelling smoke in the arena during the team’s morning shootaround,

4:48 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Prior to their matchup Saturday afternoon, the Clippers and visiting Bucks wore black T-shirts emblazoned with “Enough” across their chests and the names of the victims of a mass shooting in nearby Thousand Oaks, California, on their backs. Late Wednesday night, a gunman armed with a Glock 21 .45-caliber

1:33 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — His former teammates on the Utah Jazz really had no interest in the juicy storyline about the return of Gordon Hayward, the former face of the franchise who bolted in free agency for greener pastures in Boston. “You guys will all get your stories out now,” Joe Ingles

9:08 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — The Golden State Warriors‘ recruitment of Kevin Durant took another public step on Friday afternoon as the organization gave the All-Star forward a guided tour of Chase Center. Durant, who is expected to test free agency this summer, toured the Warriors’ new facility along with a group of sponsors

6:55 PM ET Giannis Antetokounmpo, nearly unstoppable as an inside force and slasher to the basket, will soon be upgrading to become a dual threat — and fall in line with many of the other big men of the NBA. Milwaukee Bucks general manager Jon Horst, speaking Friday in an appearance on ESPN’s The Jump,

8:52 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN SALT LAKE CITY — During Gordon Hayward‘s injury-imposed time away from basketball, between the long hours of rehab and the quality time with his family, the Boston Celtics forward would find an hour or so to slip away, log onto his computer and jump into “League of Legends,” the popular

1:25 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — Coach Mike D’Antoni summed up the state of the Houston Rockets‘ offense with one word. “Yuck,” D’Antoni said after Houston’s 98-80 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday night, when the Rockets recorded their lowest point total in a regular-season game during his two-plus-season coaching tenure. Houston was