NEW YORK — A federal judge has blocked disgraced NBA player Jontay Porter’s shot at re-starting his career in a European basketball league while he awaits sentencing in his sports betting case.

Porter, 24, who was banned from the NBA for life in April, is out on bond awaiting sentencing for wire fraud conspiracy in Brooklyn. On Tuesday, ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — As Roman Sorkin became last season’s Israeli League MVP, basketball was secondary.

Sorkin, the 27-year-old Israeli forward now trying to prove himself with the Golden State Warriors’ Summer League team, has been grieving like the rest of his nation since Hamas led an attack on Oct. 7 in the south of Israel, killing over 1,000 ...Read more

NEW YORK — No Breanna Stewart or Betnijah Laney-Hamilton? No problem.

The Connecticut Sun should’ve known they were in trouble after Sabrina Ionescu began the game with two made 25-footers in the first quarter. If Stephanie White’s squad didn’t get the message by then, Ionescu followed up with a 26-footer that turned into a four-point ...Read more

Now that the first weekend of NBA Summer League is over, games throughout this week will probably feature less and less of the key rotation-caliber players.

That certainly applies to the Denver Nuggets. Standout guard Julian Strawther was in street clothes Tuesday at Denver’s 80-66 loss to the Charlotte Hornets, and he’ll likely be done for...Read more

LAS VEGAS – One of the perks of the Minnesota Timberwolves drafting Rob Dillingham is the chance for the 19-year-old Dillingham to play behind and learn from 36-year-old Mike Conley, the floor general whose veteran savvy was a key component of the Wolves' run to the Western Conference finals.

But one of Dillingham's first interactions with ...Read more

Here’s something you’ll see in Summer League that you’re unlikely to see in the upcoming NBA season: a Nets victory over the Knicks.

The Knicks dropped their second straight Las Vegas Summer League game, this time blowing an 18-point first-half lead in a 92-85 loss to their cross-bridge rival on Tuesday afternoon.

They have fallen to 0-2...Read more

DENVER — The Joker deserves a better hand than this. Of course, he’ll elevate Christian Braun, the way he elevates everyone in his orbit. Nikola Jokic is a basketball unicorn, a walking cheat code, the sort of generational tide that lifts all boats.

He ain’t Moses.

“When we talk about Nikola, the MVP of the league, I’m the steward �...Read more

UConn legend Sue Bird is still trailblazing for women’s basketball even after retirement, becoming the first WNBA player to have a Barbie doll created in her likeness.

Mattel announced Tuesday that it is producing a Bird Barbie as a part of its 65th anniversary celebration, adding the former Seattle Storm point guard to its Role Model ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Lindsey Harding, last season’s G League coach of the year, will join JJ Redick’s first staff with the Los Angeles Lakers, The Los Angeles Times has learned from multiple people not authorized to discuss the negotiations.

Should she be hired, she’d be the first full-time female assistant in team history.

Harding, 40, ...Read more

Nneka Ogwumike returned to Crypto Arena for the first time as a visitor Tuesday afternoon and etched another chapter in her storied career in the place she called home for the first 12 years of her WNBA career.

Not only did she lead the Seattle Storm to a 89-80 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks in their final game before the All-Star and ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — My father was a college student at the University of Kentucky when Memorial Coliseum opened in 1950. Skeptics said the 11,000-seat on campus facility was too big to be filled, he said. The skeptics were wrong, of course.

Last week, I attended the preview of the “new” Memorial Coliseum, which is scheduled for an August “...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The lasting and most tragic scene from Joe Bryant’s life materialized a month after the death of his son, Kobe. Hundreds of people had filed into the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 25, 2020, for the memorial service for Kobe and his daughter Gianna. Joe, his wife, Pam, and their daughters, Sharia and Shaya, sat near the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown had courtside seats to watch his Boston Celtics beat the Lakers in a Summer League game Monday night.

That means he had a front-row view of one of the NBA's most talked about rookies, Bronny James, the son and now teammate of Lakers superstar LeBron James. The 55th overall pick of this year's draft ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Cameron Payne is leaving the Philadelphia 76ers after agreeing to a one-year, $3.1 million contract with the New York Knicks, sources confirmed to The Philadelphia Inquirer Monday night. The Athletic was first to report the news.

The Sixers acquired Payne from the Milwaukee Bucks at the February trade deadline, and he became an...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s no secret why Alex Sarr went where he did in the NBA draft.

The 7-foot France native has what teams look for in the modern-day NBA. He’s a big who can put the ball on the floor, go one-on-one from the top of the key and shoot from deep.

The Washington Wizards are entering a long rebuild. They hope Sarr — whom they took...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Miami Heat continued summer league action with a 102-73 blowout win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday at Cox Pavilion on UNLV’s campus in the second of at least five games in Las Vegas Summer League. Here are some observations from the Heat’s victory over the Thunder:

— The Heat opened the game with a starting ...Read more

Lawrence Frank, the Clippers' president of basketball operations, reiterated Monday during a new conference in Las Vegas that it was Team USA's decision to send Kawhi Leonard home last week and not have him participate in the Paris Olympics later this month.

Grant Hill, the managing director of USA Basketball, said last week that it was his ...Read more

SEATTLE — After a somewhat successful 7-2 homestand — the longest in WNBA history — the Storm travel to Los Angeles for Tuesday's 12:30 p.m. game against the struggling Sparks looking to head into the four-week Paris Olympics break on a high note.

It's the first road game for the Storm since a double-digit loss at Las Vegas on June 19.

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