MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Timberwolves held standard exit interviews with reporters Saturday to recap the season. Based on admissions from multiple players, it’s clear Chris Finch made a major strategic mistake this season.

He should have handed out juice boxes and animal crackers in the locker room after games.

Sounds like the head ...Read more

DETROIT — Cade Cunningham wasn’t ready for the question any more than he was for what it meant Sunday night.

As tired as he looked, shortly after Cleveland had ended Detroit’s season with a stunning Game 7 rout in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Pistons’ 24-year-old superstar still wasn’t ready to be done playing.

So if you’...Read more

The search for the 76ers’ new executive to lead day-to-day basketball operations has begun, after Bob Myers met with the existing front office personnel at the NBA draft combine in Chicago and then addressed the Philly media for the first time at a Thursday news conference.

Myers, the president of Harris Bitzer Sports & Entertainment and ...Read more

This year’s NBA Finals could present a number of intriguing matchups, including one that would haunt Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé.

The Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs have already punched their tickets to the Western Conference finals. The New York Knicks will face the Detroit Pistons or Cleveland Cavaliers in the ...Read more

DETROIT — For the eighth time in 10 seasons, the top seed in the Eastern Conference has failed to reach the NBA Finals.

The Detroit Pistons are the latest, after seeing their season end Sunday night with a 125-94 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals in front of a sellout crowd inside Little Caesars ...Read more

Two of the top three players in the NBA will face each other Monday. The other, according to MVP voters, will be watching from the couch.

Nuggets center Nikola Jokic finished in second place in the 2025-26 MVP vote, the league announced Sunday night. In what was widely regarded as a three-horse race, Jokic was a distant runner-up but extended ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Luka Doncic searched back into his mind on Monday night for what March felt like in his first full season with the Lakers, he turned to describing the “good” vibes in the locker room.

The Slovenian star referred to the “fight” on the court — a 15-2 run as the Lakers shaped up into their best version of themselves ...Read more

MIAMI — In the end, the Miami Heat’s offseason could come down to a lesson in leverage, namely who has it, who controls it, who maximizes it.

This all, of course, in regard to Giannis Antetokounmpo, the factor that seemingly will drive the direction of the Heat offseason until he is or is not driven off the lot in Milwaukee.

While other ...Read more

NEW YORK — OG Anunoby is back to full sprinting and getting up and down the basketball court.

He said the right hamstring strain responsible for sidelining him for Games 3 and 4 of the Knicks’ second-round playoff series against the Philadelphia 76ers wasn’t as severe as the injuries that cost him significant time on the floor before.

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DENVER — As a basketball player, Nikola Jokic is inevitable. As a personality, he is comfortable.

That endearing quality allows the Nuggets’ ownership to take advantage of him, permitting strategic neutrality through glossy double talk as the franchise reaches a crossroads.

Honestly? At this point in his career, there really is only one ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Rudy Gobert has taught us an important lesson: Never be nice to children. They might be plotting your demise.

Gobert’s lifelong mentorship of a youngster named Victor Wembanyama boomeranged on him in the second round of the NBA playoffs.

Gobert had just helped the Minnesota Timberwolves dismiss a former MVP center, Nikola ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Timberwolves’ season is over.

They were eliminated from the NBA Western Conference playoff semifinals by the San Antonio Spurs 139-109 at Target Center on Friday night in Game 6.

San Antonio shot 56% from the field (47% from three) and outrebounded the Wolves 60-29. The Spurs win the series 4-2 and will face the...Read more

Chelsea Gray has watched her Las Vegas Aces teammate A’ja Wilson do some very special things on the basketball floor.

She doesn’t take it for granted.

“You can’t get bored with watching greatness,” Gray said. “I’m around it all the time, but I’m surprised every day. I don’t ever want to get to the spot where I’m just ...Read more

CLEVELAND — For the second time this postseason, the Detroit Pistons went on the road and held off their opponent in a potential elimination game. This time, it came on Friday night inside Rocket Arena with a 115-94 Game 6 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. With the win, the Pistons have tied the Eastern Conference semifinals at three games...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — As Steve Kerr wrestled for three weeks about whether to continue coaching the Warriors, his wife, Margot, offered words that struck a chord with him during one of their many discussions about what was to come next.

“She said, ‘You might coach again some day, but you’ll never coach the Warriors again,’ and that was ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Kerr couldn’t quit.

Not yet.

And to hear him tell it, Friday, perhaps not ever.

He might just be a glutton for punishment. If he is, the Warriors are lucky that’s the case.

Because why else would a man with four rings as a coach, a surfboard as pristine as his resume, and a slew of grandkids waiting in the wings ...Read more

NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley honored former Nets center Jason Collins for his courage after the NBA’s first openly gay player died from brain cancer Tuesday.

The outspoken 16-year pro basketball veteran and longtime broadcaster also decried homophobia during Wednesday night’s “Inside the NBA” program.

Collins, who helped lead the ...Read more

NEW YORK — OG Anunoby’s return from a right hamstring strain appears to be near.

The Knicks starting forward was a full participant in practice Friday at the team’s Tarrytown training facility, with head coach Mike Brown calling the defensive anchor’s progress “encouraging” ahead of the Eastern Conference finals.

“He practiced ...Read more