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LAS VEGAS — Chris Paul worked out with new teammate Stephen Curry on Sunday morning in Las Vegas. His assessment of the session: They didn't miss too many shots. Evidentl...
July 11, 2023 Professional
LAS VEGAS — No charges will be filed following a brief investigation of the altercation involving pop star Britney Spears, San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama and ...
July 08, 2023 Professional
MIAMI — As Portland tries to create a trade market for Damian Lillard that extends beyond the Heat, the agent for Lillard has advised other teams not to pursue a trade fo...
July 07, 2023 Professional
NEW YORK — WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier are starting a new women's basketball league to give top players another option to play in the U.S. in the offs...
July 07, 2023 Professional
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Before holding his first interview session as a pro, Cavaliers' second-round draft pick Emoni Bates politely introduced himself to media members. “Em...
July 07, 2023 Professional
LAS VEGAS — There are just some tickets that are hard to get in Las Vegas. Like Adele, for example. Or Garth Brooks. Or U2, which starts a residency there this fall. And ...
July 07, 2023 Professional
NEW YORK — WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier are starting a new women's basketball league to give top players another option to play in the U.S. in the offs...
July 07, 2023 Professional
Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic are going to try again together in Dallas. Draymond Green is going to chase more championships with Stephen Curry in Golden State, just like ...
July 01, 2023 Professional
Kyle Kuzma doubled his salary in Washington, and Draymond Green ensured that Golden State's championship core stays together. Free agency in the NBA got off to its tradit...
July 01, 2023 Professional
Chris Paul’s pursuit of an NBA championship is taking him to the Golden State Warriors, after they agreed to the framework of a trade on Thursday that will send Jordan Po...
June 23, 2023 Professional
NEW YORK — Victor Wembanyama is the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, headed to San Antonio with enormous expectations to become basketball's newest sensation. The selection o...
June 23, 2023 Professional
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — Wilt Chamberlain's home uniform from his rookie season with the Philadelphia Warriors has sold at auction for $1.79 million. SCP Auctions says the...
June 19, 2023 Professional
Memphis guard Ja Morant has been suspended 25 games by the NBA — his second ban in four months — and Commissioner Adam Silver made clear Friday the star must stop his “al...
June 17, 2023 Professional
DENVER — Nikola Jokic rode atop a firetruck with people who mean the world to him — his teammate Jamal Murray, his family — and the NBA trophy. Jokic and the Denver Nugg...
June 16, 2023 Professional
There are a few business matters left to tend to around the NBA in the coming days. A championship parade awaits on Thursday in Denver, some end-of-season meetings for pl...
June 14, 2023 Sports
DENVER — Jamal Murray cradled the NBA championship trophy, occasionally rubbing the shiny gold piece of hardware to make sure it was real. The Denver point guard wouldn't...
June 14, 2023 Sports
DENVER – “It’s not impossible.” That now is Jimmy Butler’s starting point, as the Miami Heat’s leading man put it after Friday night’s 108-95 loss to the Denver Nuggets a...
June 12, 2023 Professional
MIAMI — Former UFC champion Conor McGregor knocked out the Miami Heat mascot in a midgame bit that went wrong. Burnie — more specifically, the man who occupies Burnie's c...
June 11, 2023 Professional
MIAMI — Jimmy Butler showed up in plush blue slippers for what was officially called practice. Kyle Lowry was trying to distract him during an interview session. Nikola J...
June 09, 2023 Professional
MIAMI (AP) — Four games, four nights, two titles at stake. South Florida is getting ready for an epic run of finals games. Wednesday’s NBA Finals game in Miami between th...
June 07, 2023 Sports
MIAMI (AP) — Since breaking his hand in the first round of the NBA playoffs, Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro has been relegated to offering his teammates support in conspicu...
June 07, 2023 Sports
DENVER — Rare are the nights when postgame praise flows for a center outscored by 20 by the opposing center. But that exactly was the case after Sunday’s 111-108 Miami He...
June 06, 2023 Professional
DENVER — Some might say Stan Kroenke and his family would be pulling off the impossible by bringing a long-awaited NBA title to Denver. Less discussed — at least these da...
June 05, 2023 Professional
DENVER — Joking around before the start of the NBA Finals, Charles Barkley and Grant Hill took hits from oxygen masks they brought onto the set for a pregame TV show. Bu...
June 03, 2023 Professional
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns hired former NBA champion coach Frank Vogel on Friday to replace Monty Williams, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Pr...
June 03, 2023 Professional
DENVER — The latest sanctions, if any, that the NBA plans to levy against Memphis guard Ja Morant for his second instance of displaying a gun on social media will be anno...
June 02, 2023 Professional
DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic wasn’t supposed to be here. Neither was Jimmy Butler, for that matter. Jokic was drafted behind 40 other players in 2014. Butler was drafted be...
June 01, 2023 Sports
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bob Myers is departing as president and general manager of the Golden State Warriors after building a championship team that captured four titles in ...
May 31, 2023 Sports
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joel Embiid and the 76ers battled in yet another playoff game with the Raptors, this time in 2022, when the All-Star center barked at Toronto coach N...
May 30, 2023 Professional
MIAMI — Maybe Kevin Garnett was right. Maybe, as he screamed in celebration of Boston’s 2008 NBA championship, anything truly is possible. Even the impossible. The Celti...
May 27, 2023 Professional
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