10:33 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN DETROIT — The Golden State Warriors suffered their second straight loss and third on the road Sunday night, falling to the Detroit Pistons 128-114 to drop to 3-4 on the season. Just one week into the season, the Warriors have been plagued by the same issues through all of their
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2:30 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Coming into Sunday as the NBA’s last winless team at 0-5, the Los Angeles Lakers finally broke through with a 121-110 decision over the Denver Nuggets, giving first-year coach Darvin Ham the first victory on his résumé. “Tonight, we needed to prove something to ourselves,” Ham said afterward. “Not
3:04 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN LOS ANGELES — With a noon local tip on the West Coast, the New Orleans Pelicans started out Sunday’s game against the LA Clippers a little slow. After an 18-point first quarter, things started to pick up. Boosted by the return to the lineup of forward Zion Williamson, the Pelicans
1:53 AM ET NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving said Saturday night he does not believe he did anything wrong in promoting an antisemitic film and book on his social media accounts. Speaking for the first time since he posted about a movie called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” Irving made
12:12 AM ET NEW YORK — The Brooklyn Nets held a players-only meeting after Saturday night’s 125-116 loss to the Indiana Pacers. It was the Nets’ fourth straight loss and dropped them to 1-5 this season. “It was a disaster,” Nets coach Steve Nash said of the loss. “How else do you say it? I
6:32 PM ET Ramona Shelburne Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The San Antonio Spurs‘ release of guard Joshua Primo — the No. 12 pick in the 2021 NBA
1:45 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS — Russell Westbrook came off the bench in a regular-season game for the first time since his rookie year in the Los Angeles Lakers‘ 111-102 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves and impressed his team by taking to the role. “He was great,” said LeBron James, who said Westbrook’s energy “catapulted” L.A.’s
12:03 AM ET NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai issued a statement Friday night condemning guard Kyrie Irving‘s decision to promote an antisemitic film and book on his social media accounts. “I’m disappointed that Kyrie appears to support a film based on a book full of anti-Semitic disinformation,” Tsai tweeted. “I want to
7:45 PM ET The San Antonio Spurs suddenly waived 2021 lottery pick Joshua Primo on Friday, the team announced. “It is our hope that, in the long run, this decision will serve the best interest of both the organization and Joshua,” Spurs CEO RC Buford said in a statement. Primo, the No. 12 overall pick
12:43 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — As the final seconds of regulation ticked down Thursday night with the score tied between the Dallas Mavericks and Brooklyn Nets, the entire Brooklyn defense converged on Mavericks star Luka Doncic, clearly convinced he’d try to win the game himself. But with two guys on him, and
5:25 PM ET ESPN News Services Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard has a Grade 1 strain of his right calf and will be reevaluated in 1-2 weeks, the team announced Thursday. An MRI taken Thursday confirmed the strain. Lillard suffered the injury with just over five minutes remaining in the third quarter of Wednesday’s loss
8:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN For a generation, being a quality Eastern Conference team has meant guaranteed passage into the NBA postseason. Unlike its Western counterpart, where good teams routinely have been left out of the playoff picture, the East — since the Charlotte Hornets reentered the league in 2004, bringing the NBA to its
9:14 AM ET MILWAUKEE, Wis. — The Brooklyn Nets want Ben Simmons to shoot the ball more. Nets coach Steve Nash has been making that clear by preaching for more aggression from Simmons, but Nets point guard Kyrie Irving took those pleas to a new level Wednesday night. 1 Related With just over nine minutes
2:55 AM ET DENVER — With the Los Angeles Lakers‘ 0-4 start being the first time his team has lost four straight games to begin a season since he was a rookie nearly 20 years ago, LeBron James vowed to tweak his personal approach moving forward. “I wasn’t aggressive enough in a lot of my
6:26 PM ET Russell Westbrook will not be available for the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night against the Nuggets in Denver because of left hamstring soreness, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Westbrook had been listed as doubtful for the game a day earlier. Sources previously told Wojnarowski that the veteran point guard remains hopeful
8:00 AM ET The 2022-23 NBA hierarchy already saw a few shake-ups in its first week. The Portland Trail Blazers have taken an early lead on the title for biggest surprise of the season with a 4-0 start. Damian Lillard & Co. have not only won but have notched meaningful victories over Western Conference rivals
8:10 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown and Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald both announced Tuesday night that they are leaving Donda Sports, the agency founded by the artist formerly known as Kanye West, due to antisemitic comments he recently made. The announcements came hours after Adidas terminated its relationship
4:46 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN In an interview with ESPN’s Malika Andrews on “NBA Today,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said that he believes the changes the league has made to its system in recent seasons, from flattening the lottery odds to adding the play-in tournament, have greatly reduced the incentives for teams to tank for