7:47 PM ET Associated Press RECIFE, Brazil — USA Basketball didn’t head home from AmeriCup empty-handed. Gary Clark scored 18 points, and the U.S. rallied in the final minutes to top Canada 84-80 in the bronze-medal game on Sunday. The Americans went on a 26-10 run over a 7-minute stretch of the final quarter, turning
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11:16 PM ET Associated Press Tim Hardaway took the stage and told a story of his early days in the NBA, when Golden State teammates Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin would often ask him the same question. “They would ask me, ‘Tim, how great do you want to be?'” Hardaway said. They have their answer.
6:52 PM ET Associated Press RECIFE, Brazil — USA Basketball won’t repeat as AmeriCup champions. Gabriel Deck scored 30 points, Nicolás Laprovittola added 18 and Argentina topped the U.S. 82-73 in the semifinals Saturday. It was a rematch of the gold-medal game from the most recent AmeriCup tournament in 2017, a game in which the
11:49 AM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Rudy Gobert scored 20 points and grabbed 17 rebounds as Olympic silver medalist France moved into the EuroBasket quarterfinals by holding off Turkey 87-86 in overtime Saturday. Gobert had a putback dunk with 2.7 seconds left in regulation to tie the game then scored the first four points
4:49 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The NBA told its teams Friday that it still expects to see a significant jump in the salary cap and tax level in the 2023-24 season. Based on current projections, both figures — $134 million for the salary cap, $162 million as the tax level — would
7:51 AM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS legends Chris Mullin and Mitch Richmond had an important announcement to make to the Chase Center crowd during the Warriors’ April 7 matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers. “Dub Nation, we received great news last weekend,” Mullin said. “Warrior legend Tim Hardaway is a Hall of Fame
2:43 PM ET Associated Press MILAN — Greece got another win, and a small scare as well. Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 25 points in 19 minutes before leaving midway through the third quarter with an ankle issue in Greece’s 90-69 win over Estonia in the Group C finale for both teams at the EuroBasket tournament Thursday.
4:08 PM ET Associated Press RECIFE, Brazil — Norris Cole made sure USA Basketball will play for a medal at the AmeriCup. Cole — a two-time NBA champion with the Miami Heat — scored a game-high 20 points, capping it off by making the game-winning runner with 1.4 seconds remaining, and the U.S. rallied past
Sep 6, 2022 Projected No. 1 pick Victor Wembanyama will travel to Las Vegas next month for a pair of highly anticipated games, matching up with projected No. 2 pick Scoot Henderson, a source told ESPN. Metropolitans 92 from Paris will take on G League Ignite on Oct. 4 and Oct. 6 in a pair
3:41 PM ET ESPN News Services COLOGNE, Germany — Luka Doncic was asked Tuesday about whether he or Greece’s Giannis Antetokounmpo had the better chance of setting a EuroBasket scoring record. Doncic quickly picked Antetokounmpo. A day later, he might have proved himself wrong. Doncic scored 47 points — the second most by anyone in
Sep 6, 2022 EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Patrick Beverley still was sweating from a workout at the Los Angeles Lakers‘ practice facility when Russell Westbrook delivered an assist. Westbrook interrupted Beverley’s introductory news conference with reporters to toss him a towel, making sure his new backcourt teammate looked good. “Love that brother,” an appreciative Beverley
7:37 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN PRESIDENT AND CEO John Doleva was making what has become a routine phone call for him after more than 20 years with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. On the other end of the line was New Orleans Pelicans vice president of basketball operations Swin Cash. Cash had cleared
4:37 PM ET Free agent center Montrezl Harrell is signing a two-year, $5.2 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, sources told ESPN on Tuesday, bringing toughness to a team in search of it this offseason. Harrell was the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year for the 2019-20 season while playing for the LA Clippers under
4:10 PM ET ESPN News Services After taking Monday off for rest, Giannis Antetokounmpo simply overpowered Ukraine and ensured that Greece would finish atop Group C. Antetokounmpo had his 41 points and nine rebounds in just 27 minutes to lead Greece (4-0). He was 13-for-18 from the floor, 15-for-18 from the foul line. Antetokounmpo’s point
9:13 AM ET Letting loose at a downtown Indianapolis nightspot after a long day at the NFC scouting combine in March, Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur found himself in a conversation about what was next on his offseason schedule. Free agency was quickly approaching. Offseason workouts were scheduled to begin in a little more
2:37 PM ET MILAN — Giannis Antetokounmpo was held out of Greece’s 93-77 win over Great Britain in Monday’s EuroBasket game because of knee pain. “He had discomfort in his knee but nothing major,” Greece head coach Dimitris Itoudis said at his postgame news conference, adding, “We did not want to risk anything so we
8:01 PM ET ESPN News Services RECIFE, Brazil — The plan Alex Jensen laid out for the Team USA squad sent to the AmeriCup basketball tournament was simple. Get better every day, and let the results take care of themselves. It seems to be working. Norris Cole, a former NBA guard who played for the
4:35 PM ET Associated Press RECIFE, Brazil — USA Basketball needed a win Sunday at the AmeriCup tournament and was well on the way to making that happen. That is, until it rained. The Americans’ game against Venezuela was postponed at halftime with the U.S. leading 48-21. Heavy rain caused multiple leaks inside the Geraldo