CHICAGO — The temperatures are no longer blistering in Chicago, while the air quality is creeping toward normal breathability. It was a good opportunity to get some movement in.

That aligned with the pre-practice message from coaches to the girls basketball players at the South Side’s Foster Park on 84th Street on Tuesday morning. The ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie and her husband Bill Laurie are contemplating bidding on a Las Vegas NBA expansion franchise, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to the Review-Journal.

The couple’s interest in a bid was reported by Sportico. They live in Henderson and have an estimated net worth of $17.8 ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — If a team at the top of the WNBA standings somehow acquired a player of Napheesa Collier’s caliber midseason — without giving up its first-year phenom, a few trusty veterans or a haul of future draft picks — it would likely be viewed as one of the league’s biggest blockbuster trades.

Instead, that improbable boost is ...Read more

MIAMI — Sixteen years later, the choice LeBron James is about to make is still the Decision with a capital D. It is that big even now, and that’s astounding. And the tea leaves indicate it will be the Miami Heat again — which is as wonderful now, though wholly different, as it was in 2010 when LeBron first took his talents to South Beach ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A judge accepted former NBA star Lamar Odom’s no contest plea to DUI Tuesday.

Odom, 46, was arrested on DUI and speeding charges in January by the Nevada Highway Patrol. Police said he drove more than 110 mph on Interstate 15 south of Russell Road and failed multiple sobriety tests while smelling of marijuana.

He entered rehab ...Read more

MIAMI — This time Chris Bosh won’t be impacted by a decision by LeBron James, but the former Miami Heat star said it only makes sense for James to turn back the clock to 2010.

As in when Bosh and James signed on with the Heat as free agents.

This time, Bosh, out of the game since 2016, is merely an interested bystander. But that doesn’t ...Read more

MIAMI — Will there be more? Is there Miami Heat history still to be written by LeBron James?

And if there is, could there possibly be another top-10 moment for the King on the Heat’s court?

To appreciate why the Heat subjected themselves to this free-agency waiting game is to appreciate how much those initial four seasons with LeBron meant...Read more

CHICAGO — The best in women’s basketball will gather in Chicago this week for WNBA All-Star weekend, a three-day event headlined by the All-Star Game on Saturday at the United Center.

The two teams will be coached by WNBA greats Teresa Weatherspoon and Cynthia Cooper. Team Coop features Paige Bueckers, Breanna Stewart and Angel Reese, while...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers have signed forward Matisse Thybulle to a one-year, $3.3-million contract, people familiar with the deal but not authorized to speak publicly told The Los Angeles Times Monday.

Thybulle, who spent last season playing for the Portland Trail Blazers, made the NBA's all-defensive team twice over his seven-...Read more

MIAMI — A case could be made that everything changed for the Miami Heat when the Milwaukee Bucks on June 22 agreed to trade Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Yet when asked last week about his team’s dramatic change last season to a movement system that largely eschewed pick-and-roll offense, Erik Spoelstra said it could well be more of the same, even...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Steve Gansey was playing with his son a few weeks ago, as ESPN hummed in the background, when he heard something unusual. It was Kendrick Perkins, talking to his "NBA Today" co-hosts, about a photo that recently went viral.

It was taken in 2000, and was on the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s sports section. Ten ...Read more

MIAMI — Typically, the spirit of altruism is an after-the-fact sentiment when it comes to the transactional world of the NBA.

Understood.

Still, in the days and now weeks since the Miami Heat completed the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade with the Milwaukee Bucks, both sides spoke of how throughout the process there was an attempt by Milwaukee to...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Given the historical levels of success of Kentucky men’s basketball vs. UK football, what follows will qualify as a major upset:

For the 2026-27 school year, there will be more former Wildcat players serving as NCAA Division I football head coaches than there will be ex-Cats working as D-I men’s basketball head men.

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MIAMI — The balls have stopped bouncing, but with one ball still up in the air for the Miami Heat.

Having completed their eight-game summer-league schedule late Friday night, the waiting game remains for Pat Riley’s team regarding the free agency of LeBron James.

The final tally for the Heat in the combined outings at the California ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — On Oct. 28, 2003, the Philadelphia 76ers opened their regular season at home — the arena was called the Wachovia Center then — with an 89-74 victory over the Miami Heat. It was the first game of Randy Ayers’ head coaching career, a career that would last just 52 games before he was fired. The Sixers’ starting lineup that...Read more

LeBron James continues to weigh his options in free agency and still hasn’t made a decision on which team he will join for next season. But the future Basketball Hall of Famer has dropped a few clues during the past few days about what will influence that decision.

During a two-day run at Fanatics Fest NYC and an appearance at CNBC Sport x ...Read more

Sacramento State this week released its 2026-27 men’s basketball schedule that includes the program’s first year in the Big West Conference — as well as an update on coach Mike Bibby and his staff, the returning players and newcomers and the return of Shaquille O’Neal as the program’s general manager.

Bibby, the former Sacramento ...Read more

LeBron James didn't have a speech prepared.

"I'm just speaking to y'all from the heart," the NBA's all-time leading scorer told the audience Thursday night at the Time 100 Sports gala in New York.

In James' heart and on his mind at that moment was his oldest son, Bronny James, who nearly three years ago suffered sudden cardiac arrest as an 18-...Read more

Mitchell Robinson is gone. So are Ariel Hukporti and Jeremy Sochan. But for the most part, fresh off their 2026 NBA championship run, the New York Knicks are running it back.

The Knicks didn’t need to exceed the $222 million second apron to keep the spirit of last season’s title run alive. The starting five of Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony ...Read more

TCU men’s basketball will take a preseason trip to Costa Rica, the program announced Friday.

The Horned Frogs will play in two exhibition games in Playa Hermosa and San Jose during the trip July 31-Aug. 5. It’s TCU’s first international trip since 2024, when the Horned Frogs played in London and Paris.

The opponents have not been ...Read more