The Celtics stalled out in the final game of their Western Conference road trip, losing to the Denver Nuggets 103-84 on Wednesday night.

The ugly loss featured Boston’s worst shooting performance of the season, as Joe Mazzulla’s club converted just 34.9% of its field-goal attempts and 27.9% of its 3-pointers.

It was the first time a ...Read more

Of No. 12 Nebraska men’s basketball’s four losses, only one was delivered by an unranked opponent.

The Cornhuskers made sure Maryland did not add to that ledger.

Nebraska overcame its longest drought of the season to overcome the upset-minded Terps, 74-61, on Wednesday night before an announced sold-out crowd of 15,028 at Pinnacle Bank ...Read more

CHICAGO — For the second time in less than a week, the Chicago Bulls must navigate the resurgence of a prior injury in one of their acquisitions from the flurry of trades at the deadline.

Guard Anfernee Simons aggravated a fracture in his left wrist during Saturday’s loss to the Detroit Pistons while attempting to work through a screen. It ...Read more

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Brandin Podziemski turned 23 years old Wednesday morning, but he waited until that evening in Memphis to really celebrate.

The birthday boy led a short-handed Warriors team to a bounce-back 133-112 victory on the second night of a back-to-back, both playing the role of floor general he wants to play, while also moving the ...Read more

DETROIT —The Oklahoma City Thunder were missing nearly their entire core due to injuries, with seven players sidelined, including Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who missed his ninth consecutive game due to an abdominal strain.

Given the number of players out, it seemed like the Detroit Pistons would have an easy victory. However, coach J.B. ...Read more

The St. John’s win streak ended in extreme fashion. And the Red Storm’s path to a Big East championship just got more complicated.

St. John’s was thoroughly outmatched on both ends in Wednesday night’s 72-40 loss to UConn in Hartford, Conn. – a sobering defeat that dropped the Johnnies back into second place in the conference ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Fifty-seven games in and the Lakers are still searching for answers.

The good: They’re solidly placed in the Western Conference standing, sitting in sixth but in a logjam below Oklahoma City and San Antonio, who are comfortably atop the field.

The bad: The Lakers (34-23) are the only team in the NBA that has a winning record ...Read more

A game after both Rudy Gobert (suspension) and Naz Reid (shoulder soreness) weren’t available for the Timberwolves, the pair returned as the Wolves began a three-game road trip in Portland against the Trail Blazers.

It was good they had Gobert back, as he came up big in the fourth quarter of a 124-121 victory Tuesday night.

It was a chippy ...Read more

In a topsy-turvy fourth quarter, the Lakers came up short when LeBron James missed a last-second shot that sent L.A. to a 110-109 loss to the Magic on Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena.

James had 21 points, six rebounds and four assists.

Luka Doncic had 22 points, but he was just eight-for-24 from the field and two-for-10 from three-point ...Read more

Jaylen Brown in street clothes? Payton Pritchard slogging through one of his worst shooting nights of the season?

Didn’t matter for the Celtics on Tuesday night in Phoenix.

Playing without Brown, who sat out with a knee contusion, Boston battered the shorthanded Suns 97-81 at the Mortgage Matchup Center to remain perfect on their West Coast ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Nets didn’t plan on spending their off day in Atlanta at an aquarium, but once Winter Storm Hernando turned into a full-blown nor’easter, normal stopped being an option.

Veteran forward Terance Mann helped rally the group for a trip to the Georgia Aquarium, a detour that turned a travel headache into something closer to a ...Read more

Welcome to the roller-coaster ride that is the 2025-26 Knicks season, a ride beginning with a free-fall from all-time highs: the post-Eastern Conference finals firing of head coach Tom Thibodeau, coinciding with the hiring of Mike Brown.

The Knicks haven’t quite been the same ever since, and even though eight players from last year’s roster...Read more

The Miami Heat had all their weapons; the Milwaukee Bucks were lacking their leading man.

No, this should not have been this difficult, but for a team desperately attempting to climb from the middle of the pack in the Eastern Conference, consistency remains an abstract for the Heat.

So no four-game winning streak for Erik Spoelstra’s team. ...Read more

NEW ORLEANS – Tuesday night’s theme at Smoothie King Center was “Y2K,” where Usher blasted through the speakers and the half-empty crowd were given 2000s-style bird hats to wear.

On the court, the Golden State Warriors and New Orleans Pelicans decided to also pay homage to that low-scoring era of hoops by throwing up copious amounts of...Read more

LOS ANGELES — During a 20-minute interview with the media Tuesday, new Lakers president of business operations Lon Rosen said Magic Johnson won’t be involved in any “day-to-day” involvement with the team and that hopes season-ticket holders will “renew” them despite the enormous increase for next season.

Rosen, who has been an ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Gotta hurry. This story is moving quickly.

Turns out, after all these years, the secret to success for USF basketball was impatience. And maybe a little audacity.

Head coach Bryan Hodgson has been on the job for less than a year, and already the Bulls are steering toward unprecedented heights.

The roster? Torn apart and put ...Read more

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — When you’re No. 1, in any sport, you get the other team’s best shot.

No. 1 teams know it, expect it. Duke knew it coming into its road game Tuesday against Notre Dame.

But sometimes, the other team’s best shot isn’t enough against No. 1. The Blue Devils, who took over the top spot in the AP poll on Monday, cruised ...Read more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — In the first meeting with Virginia, N.C. State knew it wasn’t going to win after getting down double figures 12 minutes into the first half. The Cavaliers outplayed the Wolfpack in virtually every way.

Will Wade said UVA “whipped” his team that December day. He really wanted to see a better outcome on Tuesday in ...Read more

Former NBA star Patrick Beverley will no longer face a felony assault charge connected to allegations made by his teenage sister late last year that he grabbed her by the neck and punched her in the eye during an altercation at their mother's home.

On Monday, a grand jury in the 240th District Court of Fort Bend County, Texas, returned a "no ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Kentucky men’s basketball coach Mark Pope has been fined $25,000 by the Southeastern Conference for comments he made after the Wildcats’ loss to Auburn on Saturday.

The SEC announced the fine Tuesday afternoon, a few hours before UK was set to take on South Carolina in another road game amid the first three-game losing ...Read more