CHICAGO — The Chicago Sky had a simple goal ahead of their game Friday against the Los Angeles Sparks: Feed Kamilla Cardoso.

Coach Teresa Weatherspoon set the expectation. Without Cameron Brink on the court, the Sparks didn’t have the size or the speed to match Cardoso in the paint. Guard Chennedy Carter reiterated the marching orders as ...Read more

MIAMI — While summer league can offer a taste of the potential of a team’s youth, it also has to be viewed in the limited spectrum of competition solely against other young players. Unlike the NBA, there are not a series of minicamps and OTAs to truly take stock of the fit among the big boys.

So the last view of Pelle Larsson was a ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The College of Alameda has hired former NBA point guard Gary Payton to be its next head men’s basketball coach, the school announced in a public report on Friday.

The Hall of Fame point guard is an Oakland native and played high school basketball at Skyline High in North Oakland. He was drafted in 1990 to the Seattle ...Read more

CHICAGO — Angel Reese’s record-setting rookie season is over after the Chicago Sky rookie suffered a wrist injury during a victory Friday night.

Reese made the announcement on social media Saturday evening. The Sky earlier in the day had listed her as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Dallas Wings at Wintrust Arena.

The All-Star...Read more

A quick scan of the box score would suggest: Napheesa Collier did it again.

Of course she did. Friday at Indiana she scored 26 with 10 rebounds, two blocks and two steals.

But look again.

A huge key to Minnesota’s 99-88 victory over the Fever in a nationally-televised game between the two hottest teams in the WNBA was Bridget Carleton.

She...Read more

NEW YORK — This potential second-round WNBA playoff matchup may not be much of a battle after all.

Thursday’s Liberty win over the No. 5 seed Seattle Storm could be a foreshadowing into this fall’s postseason: Noelle Quinn’s new-look squad isn’t a team equipped to stop the Liberty from getting back to the WNBA Finals.

Thursday’s ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Friday night, the Lynx will play the Fever in Indianapolis.

Meaning that two of the hottest teams in the WNBA will face off. So will the two WNBA players of the month — Minnesota’s Napheesa Collier in the Western Conference and Indiana’s Caitlin Clark in the Eastern Conference.

At the peak of a fine career, Collier is for...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky men’s basketball coach Mark Pope is making sure the commonwealth’s best young talent stays home for college.

After already getting class of 2024 standouts Travis Perry (Lyon County) and Trent Noah (Harlan County) on his first UK roster for the 2024-25 season, Pope has now added two star players from the ...Read more

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — After spending months on the West Coast, Nika Muhl’s first professional basketball game back in Connecticut was a family affair.

The former UConn women’s basketball point guard was selected No. 14 overall in the 2024 WNBA draft by the Seattle Storm, and her new team returned to Muhl’s old stomping grounds for the ...Read more

SEATTLE — Let's be clear about three things regarding Seattle Storm guard Jewell Loyd before we get to the "but."

Actually, it's more like a BUT. In the meantime, though ...

1) There's a good chance the Storm don't have championships in 2018 and 2020 if Jewell isn't on those teams. The 15.5 points she averaged in each of those seasons — ...Read more

MIAMI — Heading into a season, the term “reasonable expectations” almost comes off as an oxymoron. The mere point of expectation is of hope.

But then there is the South Florida sports landscape, where years and decades at least have led to tempered expectations.

For the Miami Dolphins, on the eve of the NFL, it’s to win a playoff game ...Read more

The Connecticut Sun bounced back from Wednesday’s brutal road loss to the Indiana Fever with a 96-85 rout of the Washington Mystics in D.C. on Saturday.

Veteran superstar DeWanna Bonner scored 16 points in the victory to reach 7,381 career points, surpassing Hall of Famer Tamika Catchings (7,380) for No. 4 on the WNBA all-time scoring list. ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — As more people take a deeper look at the full proposed version of the groundbreaking House settlement with the NCAA, more people are finding problems with it.

Not the idea of it: Making sure athletes get a share of the revenue they’ve generated is only right and fair. But the devil is in the details, and some of the details ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A’ja Wilson missed a potential game-winning shot in the final second against the Dallas Wings on Tuesday, but it was clear she wasn’t the reason the Aces lost.

Wilson scored 42 points — the most in the WNBA this season — as the back-to-back defending champions lost to a team with the league’s second-worst record.

Even ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mark Cuban never envisioned Jalen Brunson as captain material, and it turns out, neither did Brunson himself — until the Knicks gave him the title this summer.

During an appearance on the “Roommates Show” podcast with Knicks stars Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart, Cuban, the former majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks, reflected...Read more

ATLANTA — It will be 11 years later than planned, but Atlanta will have its day at the center of the college basketball universe.

Atlanta was selected to host the 2031 NCAA men’s Final Four, it was announced Thursday. The city was to host the marquee event in 2020 only to have it canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The final games of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Stephen Curry signed a one-year, $62.6 million extension Thursday, keeping him with the Golden State Warriors through the 2026-2027 season and elevating his career salaries to more than $500 million.

Curry, 36, would accompany LeBron James and Kevin Durant as the only NBA players to have been paid a half a billion dollars in ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Netflix has formally announced an upcoming series that will feature five of the NBA’s biggest stars, including Sacramento Kings center Domantas Sabonis.

“Starting 5” will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the 2023-24 NBA season through the eyes of the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James, Miami Heat’s Jimmy Butler...Read more