ATLANTA -- Because of the coronavirus, this Hawks offseason will look drastically different than it has in past years.

Really, the changes will stretch further than that, as the Hawks won't get to play another official game until December (the season would normally start in October). They are one of eight teams excluded from the season restart ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- With the NBA another day closer to its July 30 reopening, a piece of its plan to battle racial injustice fell into place.

The NBA and the players union agreed Friday on messages players can wear instead of their names on the backs of their jerseys for the first four days of the league's reboot.

Among the approved messages, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Lakers assistant coach Lionel Hollins was "deemed a higher-risk individual due to underlying medical conditions" and will not join the rest of the staff in Orlando, Fla., for the restart of the NBA season, a team official said Friday.

The official, who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said ...Read more

A second Miami Heat player has tested positive for coronavirus, leading the team to cease workouts at its practice facility at AmericanAirlines Arena, the Sun Sentinel has confirmed.

The Heat will continue to test players on an every-other-day basis at the arena prior to their July 8 departure for the NBA's quarantine setting at Disney World, ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. -- St. John's promising season ended in disappointment in 2019 and the school painfully parted ways with one of its legends, coach Chris Mullin. The search for his replacement ran into dead ends until a prominent booster, Mike Repole, went on WFAN-AM to call it a "national embarrassment."

The men's basketball program had New ...Read more

Anyone who watched the video could see the emotion. A day later Maya Moore -- relieved, exhausted, exhilarated -- remembers racing to the prison where Jonathan Irons was about to emerge, watching him walk through the doors that had kept him, being overcome.

"Well, apparently, I couldn't keep standing," Moore joked Thursday in a national video ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Luke Walton sat behind a podium with a familiar sponsors' backdrop behind him and a microphone in front of him. But before the Sacramento Kings head coach could talk, he had to take off the surgical mask covering his mouth and nose.

The cameras on Doc Rivers made the veteran coach look like he had just been slimed before the ...Read more

Nine more NBA players tested positive for COVID-19 between June 24 and 29, the NBA and NBPA, the union that represents the league's players, announced on Thursday.

The league has tested 351 players, with 25 testing positive -- more than 7% of the league. Team staff members have been far more effective at avoiding the virus, with just 10 of the ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Dominique Wilkins has filed a lawsuit against a slew of online shops, saying they violated copyright law by using his name and likeness for their products.

The 14-page complaint filed Monday said the 40 companies illegally used the former Atlanta Hawks superstar and NBA Hall of Famer's name on their merchandise and sold it in online ...Read more

There is nothing unusual for Goran Dragic about taking a physical before resuming play. That has been a rite of September for years.

But this, the Miami Heat guard said Wednesday, is different, the constant COVID-19 testing with the NBA's attempt to resume play later this month amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"It's different, it's definitely ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- George Floyd's death and the Black Lives Matter movement in recent weeks have been eye-opening for 76ers coach Brett Brown.

"So this thing that we're talking about ... for me, as a 59-year-old white man is just jaw-dropping in relation to being educated," Brown said Wednesday during a Zoom call with the media.

The coach ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Do the 76ers need to work on their culture?

The team said in a statement it plans to launch an investigation after Tuesday's Instagram posts about former team dancer Yahne' Coleman and Anthony Ngo, the team's former director of facilities management.

Coleman, who is Black, wrote about being bullied, racially targeted and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Unsure during recent weeks whether he would participate in the NBA's season restart, Clippers guard Lou Williams is expected to play, coach Doc Rivers said Wednesday, when teams were required to turn in the names of their 35-person travel party to the NBA.

"All indications is that yes, he is," Rivers said during a video call with...Read more