NEW YORK — Knicks owner James Dolan’s letter to the NBA’s Board of Governors spurred more transparency from the league to its owners regarding the money kept from the new media rights deal, the New York Daily News has learned.

Dolan criticized the 11-year, $76 billion deal in a memo on Monday, which ESPN was first to report.

Among the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Nets added a recent lottery pick to their new-look roster Friday, acquiring small forward Ziaire Williams in a trade with the Memphis Grizzlies.

Brooklyn is sending forward Mamadi Diakite and the draft rights to Serbian forward Nemanja Dangubic to Memphis in the deal, the Nets announced.

The Nets will also acquire a 2030 ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The job Jeff Capel was hired to do felt impossible at the time: resurrecting Pitt men's basketball from the dead and restoring relevance to a program that had fallen on some seriously hard times, the nadir an 0-18 mark in ACC play in 2017-18.

What Capel has done over the past six seasons obviously hasn't been perfect, but it ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Around 12:30 a.m. Monday inside Sonny Vaccaro’s home in Southern California, the phone rang — the kind of call at the kind of time that means nothing but awful news. His wife, Pam, answered. On the line was Pam Bryant. She was crying. Seconds later, still in bed, Sonny was, too.

“It’s absolutely horrible,” Vaccaro ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The practice floor at the Joe Craft Center made for a nostalgic scene Monday afternoon.

On one side of the court: Eric Bledsoe and Daniel Orton, two of the original five-star freshmen of the John Calipari era. Surrounded by reporters near midcourt: Willie Cauley-Stein, one of the most beloved Wildcats of the past decade and a...Read more

LAS VEGAS — JJ Redick and a chunk of his new coaching staff sat baseline Thursday in Las Vegas, the Lakers’ key young pieces all flashing elements of why the Lakers valued them.

The result — another Lakers Summer League win and some critic silencing — was momentary. Maybe in the 93-89 win, there was something more.

From the jump, ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — The UConn women’s basketball program may not have won a national championship since 2016, and competition in the sport may be getting better around the country, but that doesn’t mean the Huskies aren’t still the class of the women’s game.

After the Connecticut Sun sent former UConn guard Moriah Jefferson to the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — To those in Orlando and around the NBA, his name was Nick Anderson.

To Magic co-founder Pat Williams, the franchise’s first-ever draft pick went by his birth-name.

“I can’t recall a time that Pat Williams called me by Nick,” Anderson told the Orlando Sentinel via phone Thursday. “It was always, ‘Nelison, how are ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu is the reigning champion of the WNBA's 3-point contest.

She won't be taking part in this year's competition.

Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark is just months removed from a college career at Iowa in which she set NCAA women's basketball records for most 3-pointers made in a season (201), ...Read more

CHICAGO — Matas Buzelis loves to dunk.

This might seem obvious. Most NBA players can dunk and most like to do it. But in his first three NBA Summer League games in Las Vegas, the Chicago Bulls’ first-round draft pick showed he’s in a slightly different class.

Buzelis always is looking at the rim and needs little provocation to launch. ...Read more

DENVER — The Denver Nuggets are preparing to acquire a fourth league MVP trophy. They’ll just need to dust this one off.

The Nuggets plan to sign Russell Westbrook as a free agent after the future Hall of Famer clears waivers, a league source confirmed to The Denver Post.

Westbrook picked up a $4 million player option in June to return to ...Read more

CHICAGO — The price of being a Chicago Sky fan just went up.

It was inevitable. Even a casual viewer this season could see it coming: the sold-out crowds, the back-ordered jerseys, the record-breaking viewership. The popularity of rookies Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso — and the league’s 2024 draft class at large — has been undeniable,...Read more

SEATTLE — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday night the league will consider this fall whether to enter a process of expanding beyond the current 30 teams.

"I think we will engage this fall, in earnest, in the process of making those determinations," Silver told reporters at a news conference in Las Vegas in which he confirmed a new 11-...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Wednesday's 86-79 matinee win over Atlanta was not, for the Lynx, a beautiful game. But if you listened to the team afterwards, it could be proof this can still be a beautiful season.

But we'll all have to wait a month to find out.

The Lynx scuffled for most of three quarters against a Dream team living through, now, a ...Read more

Tyler Kolek called game.

After the New York Knicks erased an early 10-point Sacramento Kings’ lead to take an 11-point lead of their own on Wednesday, and after the Kings wiped New York’s advantage clean on a go-ahead Keon Ellis three to take a two-point lead with seven seconds left in the fourth quarter, the ball — as it’s done so many...Read more

When Miami Heat icon Udonis Haslem spoke to the Heat’s summer league team on Tuesday in Las Vegas, his message resonated with Keshad Johnson. That’s because 21 years ago, Haslem was in a similar position to the one Johnson finds himself in now.

Haslem, now 44 years old, went undrafted out of Florida in 2003 and entered the league with a ...Read more

LAS VEGAS – The kids? They’re all right.

While Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo was showing off an impressive 3-point shooting stroke half a world away in an Olympic exhibition Wednesday in Abu Dhabi for Team USA, the Heat’s domestic product again showed the intrigue of youth being injected into the pipeline.

In moving to 3-0 in the NBA ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Connecticut Sun have acquired veteran guard Marina Mabrey in a trade with the Chicago Sky, the team announced Wednesday. In exchange, Chicago receives point guard Moriah Jefferson, guard Rachel Banham and a first-round draft pick in 2025.

Chicago will also have the rights to swap first-round picks with Connecticut in ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league will begin to explore this year if expansion makes sense.

With the NBA close to finalizing a reported $76 billion media rights deal and a new collective bargaining agreement in place, expansion is the next topic the league will focus on.

“We’re not quite done with our media deals ...Read more