MINNEAPOLIS — The Timberwolves, at the moment, are the best team in the NBA.

They need 10 more victories to win a championship and have the right to say that themselves. The rest of us don't have to wait. We can see it.

The Denver Nuggets were the best team in the NBA last season and destroyed their competition in the playoffs to easily win ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There was no suspense, mirroring how things went down just over a year ago when everyone knew it was all about the French phenom.

Victor Wembanyama’s name was the one called on national television on Monday night, completing a whirlwind 12-plus month stretch. The San Antonio Spurs rising star collected his first major ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In the moments following the Timberwolves 106-80 dismantling of the Nuggets on Monday, big man Rudy Gobert FaceTimed an undoubtedly electric locker room.

Gobert was back in the Twin Cities enjoying the birth of his first child. The Wolves celebrated Baby Gobert by honoring the defensive anchor with a suffocating, unrelenting, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Notorious Knicks killer Reggie Miller is headed back to Madison Square Garden.

Miller will be part of TNT’s broadcast of Game 2 of the Knicks and Pacers’ second-round playoff series on Wednesday night, the network announced Monday.

Miller, who spent his entire Hall of Fame career with Indiana, is set to join Brian Anderson, ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There was no suspense, mirroring how things went down just over a year ago when everyone knew it was all about the French phenom.

Victor Wembanyama’s name was the one called on national television on Monday night, completing a whirlwind 12-plus month stretch. The San Antonio Spurs rising star collected his first major ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The 2023-24 season ended in disappointment yet again for the Clippers and now they will turn their attention to next season and how they can reach their goal of winning an NBA championship with a core group that’s getting older.

It’ll start with Lawrence Frank, the Clippers’ president of basketball operations, his front-...Read more

Before we take a dive into the things that the Sixers need to do in order to do what they have not done in the Joel Embiid Era, let’s establish a jumping-off point.

Winning in the playoffs is hard. Extraordinarily hard. When you look around the NBA, you’ll see that there are essentially three formulas, all heavily reliant on variables that ...Read more

The Timberwolves entered Monday's game without Rudy Gobert, their defensive anchor. The likely NBA Defensive Player of the Year and the team's coaching staff have tried to install consistency, effort and attention to detail in the team's defense ever since his arrival in Minnesota.

His teammates did him proud with a stifling defensive effort in...Read more

NEW YORK — Donte DiVincenzo has been here before.

The ball found DiVincenzo behind the three-point line with the game and series on the line in Game 6 of the Knicks’ first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia 76ers when he uncorked a bomb from downtown to put the Sixers away and punch New York’s ticket to the second round

The ...Read more

Joel Embiid has already sent Daryl Morey some thoughts on his offseason plans. Soon, the 76ers’ superstar and the team’s president of basketball operations will sit down with coach Nick Nurse and the medical team, among others, for their customary postseason meeting.

Morey on Monday called Embiid incredible, a stud, and a warrior while ...Read more

MIAMI — Jimmy Butler wants more from the Miami Heat, and the Heat wants more from Butler.

Butler will ask for a maximum two-year contract extension worth about $113 million from the Heat this offseason, and the Heat will ask Butler to play in more games next season.

Whether either side fulfills the other’s request remains to be seen, as ...Read more

CLEVELAND — It has become tradition during the Orlando Magic’s 35th anniversary season for delirious fans in Kia Center to chant, “Play the song! Play the song!” when the Magic record a victory. And then the crowd celebrates and sings along when a remade version of the original team anthem blares throughout the arena.

On Sunday ...Read more

CLEVELAND — Paolo Banchero became the third-youngest player in NBA history to score 30-plus points in three or more games of the same playoff series but his tremendous efforts weren’t enough against the Cavaliers in Orlando‘s first trip back to the postseason in four years.

Banchero, who totaled 38 points during Sunday’s Game 7, was one...Read more

DENVER – Anthony Edwards shared the floor Saturday night with Nikola Jokic, the two-time NBA MVP who is favored to win his third.

He was in Jokic's Ball Arena, and his Timberwolves were going against the defending champions, the standard of late-game composure and execution that these Wolves could only dream about reaching a season ago.

But ...Read more

MIAMI — The NBA offseason is a layered process, required to take into account the salary cap, luxury tax, payroll aprons and willingness of potential or perceived trade partners to engage.

So to forecast what should or could come next for the Miami Heat requires layered conversation, with a distinct difference between what the Heat might want...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — Caitlin Clark’s first game as a pro went like her last games as a collegian. Disregard the age of the opponent, she’s the best player on the floor, in a packed arena.

On Friday night at the College Park Center in Arlington on the campus of UTA, the Dallas Wings’ WNBA team, thanks to some shrewd foresight, were the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Having preached against The Process for these 11 years, it delivers me no small measure of delight when the Sixers inevitably falter every spring. Losing on purpose to game the system created a culture of losing, and the Sixers have mastered the art of the springtime collapse against every decent opponent they’ve faced, ...Read more

After she was selected with the No. 14 pick in the 2024 WNBA draft, with dozens of cameras and microphones focused on her every word, an emotional Nika Muhl was brought back to hours and hours spent last summer at the UConn women’s basketball team’s practice facility.

Muhl had a regular drill in her workouts with assistant coach Morgan ...Read more