This was almost a year ago, a time when the transfer portal and name, image and likeness deals were just gaining traction in college athletics.

"Coaches have got to stop complaining," Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey said.

"This is the world we're in and, last time I checked, we make pretty good money. So everybody should shut up and ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — There’s not one player who can fill the void left by Stephen Curry’s absence.

A strong showing from top-to-bottom by the Warriors did the trick Monday night as Golden State rolled to a 141-114 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Klay Thompson scored 42 points and knocked down 12 3s, Jordan Poole tallied a career-high 12 ...Read more

Kansas guard Kevin McCullar couldn’t help but emphatically pump his fist.

McCullar had just performed a spin move into the paint, taken the contact by the Texas defender and made the layup. In the process, he earned an and-one and converted the free throw to put KU up four points early in the second half.

It was that kind of night for KU.

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CHICAGO — In the fourth quarter of the Chicago Bulls’ 128-104 win Monday, the San Antonio Spurs couldn’t keep Andre Drummond off the rim.

The veteran center crunched the ball through the hoop three times in the quarter. Each time he dangled off the metal — with one hand, with both, mouth open in a roar, lip curling into a snarl — to ...Read more

NEW YORK — He did it again.

One game after setting a new career-high, second-year scorer Cam Thomas eclipsed it in the Nets’ 124-116 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday.

Thomas scored a new high of 47 points in 39 minutes, shooting 15-of-29 from the field and 7-of-11 from downtown. The Clippers tried several tactics to slow down the...Read more

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The Hurricanes got out to a quick five-point lead in the opening moments against Duke, and the game never got closer.

Facing off against the Blue Devils in primetime in front of a packed Watsco Center and a variety of sports stars in attendance (including Marlins star Jazz Chisholm and Hall of Famer Rick Barry), Miami ...Read more

The NBA doldrums tend to run from Christmas through the All-Star break, the league seemingly only awakening at the NBA trade deadline, which is Thursday, and in that case it most reinvigorates front offices.

To forward Jimmy Butler, that is where the Heat seemingly stand, coming off a 1-3 trip, with Wednesday night’s game against the Indiana ...Read more

Want to be part of NBA history this week? It's going to cost you.

LeBron James becoming the NBA's all-time leading scorer won't rival the stub-sanity of a Taylor Swift concert tour, but it's obvious courtside glitterati aren't the only ones willing to pay big to watch the Lakers star score his 38,388th career point.

James is poised to break ...Read more

The tweet appeared within hours of the news that the Lakers had not been able to pull off a trade for Kyrie Irving.

The tweet was from LeBron James, who had openly campaigned for Irving despite overwhelming evidence he would be a bad fit.

The tweet, as usual, was a passive-aggressive shot at Lakers owner Jeanie Buss and general manager Rob ...Read more

It keeps getting worse, doesn’t it?

The Warriors were set to go on a long-awaited run of wins — Saturday night was supposed to be the start of it.

Instead, the win over the Mavericks might be the end of the Dubs’ title defense. The loss of Steph Curry in that contest was infinitely more significant than one win.

The injury, suffered in ...Read more

Long forgotten and deservedly so, a virtually meaningless and dislocated basketball game just happened to be the one in which Wilt Chamberlain's career NBA scoring record fell to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

On April 5, 1984, the Los Angeles Lakers were hosting the Utah Jazz in Las Vegas for unexamined reasons, and that's where Kareem put in a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Timberwolves defeated the team at the top of the Western Conference standings on Sunday, scoring a 128-98 win over Denver.

Even though it will go in the official ledger like any other win, chalk this one up as the Wolves' biggest schedule win of the season.

A night after playing in Denver, the Nuggets opted to sit out ...Read more

Evan Fournier got an unexpected chance and ran with it.

With RJ Barrett a late scratch because of a non-COVID illness, Fournier, normally out of the rotation, was the backup guard and sent a reminder about why he broke the franchise’s record for 3-pointers just a year ago.

Fournier’s 17 points — including 5 for 8 from beyond the arc — ...Read more

At this point of the season, for this Kentucky basketball team, it feels like every game is an NCAA Tournament play-in game.

Take Saturday night at Rupp Arena. Florida was in town for a bubble battle. Both the Cats and Gators were 6-3 in the SEC. Both were in the 30s in the NCAA NET rankings. By night’s end, however, John Calipari’s Cats ...Read more

Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan is putting his trust in the front office to navigate the impending trade deadline as his team continues to struggle even to get to .500.

With the deadline at 2 p.m. Thursday, Donovan said before Saturday’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers that executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras ...Read more

The Dallas Mavericks are so desperate to put an All-Star player next to Luka they went with the crazy hot one.

Uncle Drew is coming to the Mavs.

Will be interesting. Will be entertaining.

And don’t come cryin’ when Kyrie Irving goes Rondo and this movie bombs.

On Sunday, according to ESPN and other media outlets, the Mavericks sent ...Read more

DURHAM, N.C. — The night before his first game against North Carolina, at least his first one as Duke’s head coach, Jon Scheyer participated in a familiar ritual. He met with the students — 3,000 of them, he said — inside Cameron Indoor Stadium, and delivered the de facto keynote address of the annual informal gathering that always takes...Read more

The hope this week is of the Miami Heat getting a better sense of self, in what has turned more into a quest for healing than necessarily an upgrade at Thursday’s NBA trading deadline.

After losing Saturday night to the Milwaukee Bucks to close out a 1-3 trip, the Heat limped back to South Florida short on bodies and again long on medical ...Read more

The Brooklyn Nets have traded star guard Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks for Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith, a 2029 first-round pick and future second-round picks, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

The deal comes days after Irving requested a trade from Brooklyn after he and the Nets failed to reach an agreement on a ...Read more