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MINNEAPOLIS — For most of the first six minutes of Friday night’s game against defending NBA champion Oklahoma City at Target Center, Minnesota Timberwolves coach Chris Finch sat on the bench quiet and didn’t argue ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Hawks have played competitive basketball in many of their games this season. But on the second night of back-to-back games, they didn’t appear to have their usual fighting spirit, falling to the Spurs, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The 76ers showed that they can still beat teams with winning records.

VJ Edgecombe continues to take over in the third quarter.

And Jared McCain is back to feeling healthy.

Those things stood out in Friday�...Read more

BOSTON — Up three heading into the fourth quarter Friday night, the Celtics showed a hype video starring Isaiah Thomas on the TD Garden Jumbotron.

Thomas, whose late-game exploits during his brief but memorable Boston ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mitchell Robinson is making free throws.

Maybe it’s lightning in a bottle. Maybe it’s a one-off performance, an outlier in the most miserable free-throw shooting season of Robinson’s miserable free-...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Kings provided an update on Domantas Sabonis’ injury Friday. The news was not good.

The team said Sabonis will miss at least another month as he recovers from a partially torn ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sean McVay serves on the NFL's competition committee.

So it's a given that the next time the group convenes, the Rams coach will have a specific situation and rule to discuss.

Particularly, the one that ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Matt Strahm ranked among the most effective lefty relievers in baseball over the last three seasons.

Yet, to the Phillies, he was expendable.

In a move that saved nearly $7 million to help address other ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Rays had a busy Friday that seemed to shift their focus to the future, trading two-time All-Star slugger Brandon Lowe and two other major leaguers to the Pirates in a three-team deal, and sending ...Read more

SEATTLE — Was there some luck?

Absolutely there was. A backward-pass-turned-two-point conversion that everyone in the stadium thought was dead before the replay. A missed 48-yard field-goal attempt by the Rams late in ...Read more

SEATTLE — In a matter of minutes, the home of the Seattle Seahawks went from a painfully quiet Lumen “Library” to a rollicking madhouse that sent seismologists scrambling for their ground-motion sensors.

Call it the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Puka Nacua's comments about NFL officiating came with a cost — and not just the distraction the controversy caused the Rams before their overtime defeat by the Seattle Seahawks.

The NFL fined the Rams ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The playoff possibilities ended too soon for the Chiefs, who entered the year in pursuit of a fourth straight Super Bowl appearance.

But with three games remaining and no postseason to pursue, tight ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — After months of uncertainty, the Connecticut Sun are progressing toward a deal to sell and relocate the team to Houston, according to a report from ESPN.

ESPN reported Friday that Houston Rockets ...Read more

SEATTLE — Seahawks linebacker Derick Hall has been suspended for one game without play by the NFL for what the league called an “act of unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct” during Thursday’s game ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Natalia Bryant has been given a renewal of a restraining order against a man who the daughter of late Lakers legend Kobe Bryant says has been stalking her since she was a minor.

Bryant's civil restraining ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The family of deceased pitcher Tyler Skaggs and the Angels reached a settlement Friday, ending a contentious trial as jurors had begun a third day of deliberations regarding Skaggs' drug-related death...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Rays had a busy Friday that seemed to shift their focus to the future, trading starting pitcher Shane Baz to the Orioles for four prospects and a draft pick, and working on another deal that would ship ...Read more

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — It was a strange scene at Miami Dolphins practice Thursday. Starting rookie quarterback Quinn Ewers was throwing passes as veteran backups Tua Tagovailoa and Zach Wilson stood in the background and ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — If you've been watching the Penguins lately, you know that nothing is decided until it's decided. Four-goal, third-period leads disappear like smoke. One-goal leads with a tenth of a second on the clock and ...Read more