Category: Sport

CJ McCollum has been playing the best basketball of his career to start this season, averaging 26.7 points a game, taking on a larger role in the offense, intentionally taking more threes and hitting them at a career-best 44.1% clip. He was playing at an All-Star level through the opening weeks. Now Portland will have […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Ja Morant returned to the Memphis lineup after missing eight games with an ankle injury and scored 17 points, leading the Grizzlies to a 106-104 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday night. Morant, who sprained his left ankle Dec. 28 at Brooklyn, added six assists. Rookie Xavier Tillman added 15 points […]

MIAMI — The Detroit Pistons had their most dominant quarter in nearly two years. And last season’s NBA Finals trip for the Miami Heat suddenly seems long ago. Jerami Grant scored 24 points, Derrick Rose had 23 off the bench and the Pistons – the team with the NBA’s worst record – came into Miami […]

From the day he asked to be traded, James Harden preferred to go to Brooklyn. His friend Kevin Durant recruiting him was certainly part of the decision, as was the chance to play in New York, but Harden said Mike D’Antoni — both leaving Houston and landing on Steve Nash’s staff in Brooklyn — played […]

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has revealed that he received the COVID-19 vaccine and is encouraging others to consider doing the same. The Basketball Hall of Famer and NBA’s leading all-time scorer has taped a short message that will be aired beginning Monday during broadcasts of games played on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. The video […]

Philadelphia lost on the road to Ja Morant and Memphis on Saturday night, boarded a plane, and flew to Oklahoma City to take on the Thunder Sunday in a back-to-back. The Sixers were in the arena, with players on the court warming up, when word came down that Memphis big man Jonas Valanciunas had entered […]

With the Dallas Mavericks shorthanded — Tim Hardaway, Jalen Brunson, Dorian Finney-Smith, Maxi Kleber, Dwight Powell, and Josh Richardson were all out for various reasons — Luka Doncic decided he needed to take on more. That led to an impressive 36 point, 16 rebound, 15 assist triple-double that included some ridiculous highlights. It wasn’t enough. […]