DENVER — Nikola Jokic needs to look at Josh Kroenke the way he looks at Jaylin Williams.

Crazy eyes. Brows in attack mode. Nostrils burning like sparklers at an Independence Day picnic. A grown man who’s not gonna take this bleep anymore.

You think the Denver Nuggets would ever sit on their hands over the summer — any summer — if the...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The trolleys stopped running at midnight so Tom Hoover waited outside the Philadelphia Warriors locker room for a lift back to Villanova. He was a teenage college student and his ride after sitting in the stands at Convention Hall was the passenger seat of Wilt Chamberlain’s purple Cadillac El Dorado.

A 40-minute drive, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — As the final seconds of the Minnesota Lynx’s 103-90 win over the Dallas Wings ticked away Sunday, a Target Center crowd of 14,421 began chanting, “Kay-la, Kay-la.”

Kayla McBride waved to the Lynx fans, heading to the bench after sinking her WNBA single-game record 10th 3-pointer. The late-game corner 3 capped off her ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Nobody throws a premature party like the 76ers. From the 2012 blowout to welcome Andrew Bynum to a 2016 rally at the Art Museum after going 10-72 and getting the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft — a pick that turned out to be Ben Simmons — to the parade of big-name free agents and trade pieces who have come and gone since, this ...Read more

MIAMI — In terms of power play, a case could be made that the Miami Heat have never been better positioned when it comes to the two starters in their power rotation.

With this being the Heat’s 39th season, that certainly says plenty about the expectations with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo.

Best one-two power punch in the current ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sabrina Ionescu is shifting her focus to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics Games after not making the cut for the 12-woman FIBA World Cup squad, which is set to begin group play next month.

And the Liberty star had no hard feelings on the decision to leave her off this year’s World Cup roster.

“I mean, not — kind of — but not ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Sky guard DiJonai Carrington blasted the Indiana Fever on social media after being ejected from Saturday’s 90-86 loss at the United Center for a hard foul on Sophie Cunningham.

The foul occurred with two minutes remaining in the first quarter when Carrington chased down Cunningham from behind on a breakaway layup. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — There are two sets of questions for these 76ers. Maybe it feels like that’s always been the case. Except that it hasn’t.

The questions used to be: Will Joel Embiid be healthy? How often? To what extent? At what level of effectiveness? Nothing beyond these things mattered. Without Embiid, the Sixers weren’t a team you ...Read more

NEW YORK — After the Liberty won Game 2 of the 2024 WNBA semifinals matchup against the Las Vegas Aces, Betnijah Laney-Hamilton was asked what inspired her near impossible task of consistently getting defensive stops against her opponent’s elite trio of guards.

The Liberty guard, who was just three months removed from a procedure to clean ...Read more

Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke died in May from "the effects of heroin and cocaine," the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner announced Friday.

The manner of death was determined to be accidental, the department said.

Clarke died May 11 in a San Fernando Valley home, multiple media outlets reported at the time, and drug ...Read more

STORRS, Conn. — As the summer winds down and the college sports calendar begins again, UConn coach Dan Hurley is again using his stature in men’s basketball to call for reform, clarification.

“We have meetings with compliance, and when compliance says something is illegal, we can’t do it. A player is ineligible based on the rules, our ...Read more

CHICAGO — Members of two conservative groups are planning a rally in support of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham outside of the United Center ahead of Saturday’s game against the Chicago Sky.

The Chicago Young Republicans and Xx-Xy Athletics will host the rally at 1 p.m. on Madison Street near the atrium ahead of the 2:30 p.m. tipoff. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Clippers star Kawhi Leonard had a second lucrative undisclosed sponsorship agreement with a company doing business with the team, Pablo Torre reported Thursday night on his podcast.

Scoreboard manufacturer Daktronics, which built the $100 million video board at the Clippers' Intuit Dome, hired Leonard to a multi-million-dollar ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Situated comfortably outside the Charlotte Hornets’ locker room, resting in a folding chair following an individual workout, Naz Reid recalls the moment.

Although he was tipped off by his agent some 48 hours earlier of the possibility of being traded, Reid didn’t want to eschew a planned and much-needed excursion to a ...Read more

Who else is better in the clutch than Chelsea Gray?

Despite scoring five points through the first 39 minutes and 59 seconds on Thursday, Gray delivered when the Las Vegas Aces needed her most, first drilling a 3-pointer at the buzzer to force overtime before hitting the game-winning buzzer-beater in the extra period to seal an 86-84 victory ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Jaylen Brown was officially introduced as a member of the Sixers on Thursday during a news conference at Francis Myers Recreation Center in Southwest Philadelphia.

Brown discussed his reaction to the trade, his thoughts on some his teammates, and more. Here are some quick highlights …

Trade reaction and Sixers group chats

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PHILADELPHIA — There is no perfect historical analogy for what LeBron James is attempting with the 76ers or for what the Sixers are attempting with him. He will turn 42 in late December. He has appeared in more NBA games than anyone. He will soon begin his 24th season in the league without a pause — no temporary retirements, no full seasons ...Read more

Former Miami Heat player Terry Rozier posed with guns on social media as part of a “crew” with his childhood friends, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn alleged in a filing in his NBA game-rigging case.

The feds brought up Rozier’s affiliation with a group called “GMB” in a letter seeking to keep his alleged accomplice and childhood pal ...Read more