DENVER — The younger brother of Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. was arrested early Sunday morning in Missouri on investigation of driving while intoxicated.

Jevon Porter, 20, was arrested at 1:31 a.m. in Boone County, Mo., State Highway Patrol records show. Porter, who was released, also was accused of speeding.

The 6-foot-11 ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — One of the best 3-point shooters in all of college basketball will be a Kentucky Wildcat next season.

On Wednesday, former Dayton guard Koby Brea announced his commitment to UK from the NCAA transfer portal. Brea has one year of college eligibility left after playing the last four seasons at Dayton.

Brea’s commitment came ...Read more

NEW YORK — As it turns out, the reports of the Sixers’ death were greatly exaggerated.

Surely, the reports were only premature — it’s got to end badly sooner or later — but they’re not dead yet.

Not as long as Tyrese Maxey is running, Tobias Harris is hustling and Joel Embiid is limping.

Maxey dropped 46 points on the Knicks, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Joel Embiid dove for the loose ball. Nick Nurse called timeout. And a crowd at Madison Square Garden that has spent so much of this first-round playoff series in a frenzy quietly began to file for the exits.

Then, Tyrese Maxey stepped to the free-throw line to cap an epic 46-point, nine-assist, season-saving effort.

The Sixers ...Read more

BOSTON — The Miami Heat now will need a next man up for their next man up amid their injury-riddled ride through the opening round of the NBA playoffs.

Moved into the starting lineup in the wake of injuries to teammates Terry Rozier and Jimmy Butler, first-round pick Jaime Jaquez Jr. on Tuesday was ruled out by the team for Wednesday night’...Read more

CHICAGO — What does it mean to be one of the greatest of all time?

It’s something we hear tossed around in sports discussions constantly. We each define it differently, some metrics carry more weight than others. It’s completely subjective, but we ask anyway. It’s one of the greatest and forever arguments in sports.

Is it championships...Read more

NEW YORK — Knicks forward Bojan Bogdanovic will undergo season-ending surgeries to repair foot and wrist injuries, the team announced on Tuesday.

The news of the Knicks losing a key role player comes with the team up 3-1 in the first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia 76ers.

Bogdanovic appeared to suffer the foot injury after ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — LeBron James and his Lakers teammates were overcome with disbelief. They rushed to the monitor on the scorer’s table in Minnesota to see the play in dispute.

They pleaded and pointed at the zoomed-in image of the toe of James’ right sneaker and the blue 3-point line it might or might not have touched.

James was sure he was ...Read more

DENVER — Jamal Murray made another shot.

Because of a flick of a wrist, LeBron James is gone. And he took Anthony Davis with him. The Nuggets vanquished the Lakers, beating them for the 12th time in 13 games to advance to the second round of the playoffs.

Denver got the win. Los Angeles got the whine.

No more stamping of feet, throwing arms...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Timberwolves coach Chris Finch is set to have knee surgery Wednesday to repair a ruptured right patellar tendon.

The Wolves open their NBA Western Conference semifinal series in Denver on Saturday, and the team is still figuring out how Finch could help coach from near the bench area, a source said Tuesday.

Finch, 54, will have...Read more

LOS ANGELES — LeBron James raised the microphone to his face.

"Ummm," he started.

James smiled and looked at me.

"I'm not going to answer that," he said.

James nodded.

"Appreciate it," he said, still smiling.

With that, he walked off the dais.

The question I asked that James declined to answer: Did he have any thoughts on Monday night ...Read more

It was not a surprise for a coach who was synonymous with teams built around one-and-done freshmen, but John Calipari all but loathed the “make the game older” impact that the NCAA-granted “one free COVID year” has had on men’s college basketball.

The presence of players using a fifth season of college eligibility — like, say, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Alabama reached the men’s basketball Final Four and had 11 players in the transfer portal as of Friday afternoon. Duke reached the Elite Eight and then watched seven players submit their names to leave the program. Rutgers may have the best incoming recruiting class in its hoops history, but the Scarlet Knights are likely ...Read more

Who helped whom?

If you listen to the toxic discourse surrounding NBA basketball, you’d be led to believe that the Golden State Warriors were some scrub team saved by Kevin Durant joining them for the 2016-17 season.

It sure seems that Durant needed the Warriors more than the Warriors needed him.

On Sunday night, Durant’s latest team, the...Read more

Jamal Murray made a shot.

Again.

And in a playoff series that the Nuggets trailed more than they led on the scoreboard, they won four of five games.

Murray’s pull-up 14-footer with 3.4 seconds remaining handed the Nuggets a 108-106 Game 5 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers and a first-round series win. Denver will advance to play the third...Read more

MIAMI -- This Heat season, and perhaps this era of Heat basketball, stands one loss from expiration after a sixth consecutive home playoff loss and a second offensive dud against Boston in three days.

Undermanned and seemingly out of both firepower and answers, the Heat succumbed to the Celtics, 102-88, on Monday night at Kaseya Center and now ...Read more

MIAMI — Observations and other notes of interest from Monday night’s 102-88 NBA playoff loss to the Boston Celtics:

– Yes, this is about the Celtics.

– Whose depth of talent is such that even Derrick White can be a leading man.

– Whose depth of talent is such that they can survive a calf injury to Kristaps Porzingis.

– And, yes, ...Read more

The Minnesota Timberwolves were always going to sweep the superstar-heavy Phoenix Suns. And somehow the Knicks have entered the chat with things reaching a boiling point after a failed season in Phoenix.

The Suns’ season ended in disappointing fashion, a 4-0 series sweep underscoring the difference between a team — like the championship-...Read more