CHICAGO — Skylar Diggins will not play another game for the Chicago Sky this season.

The team announced Tuesday that the guard will be shut down for the remainder of the season with a reaggravated right knee injury, an issue that held Diggins out since a July 7 game against the Phoenix Mercury.

The final hours before Diggins stepped back ...Read more

Angel Reese has broken another WNBA record with her 29th double-double of the season.

The Atlanta Dream forward had 15 points and 11 rebounds in the team's 89-81 victory against the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday, surpassing the previous mark for most double-doubles in a single season set by Alyssa Thomas in 2023. (Thomas had set that record while ...Read more

SEATTLE — At the start of home games, most Seattle Storm fans stand for the national anthem, player introductions and the opening tip-off, and remain on their feet until Seattle scores its first basket.

It’s a decades-old tradition but the Storm tested their supporters’ resolve Sunday with a prolonged scoring drought that elicited moans ...Read more

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — For the great ones, there is that place when a corner is turned, leaving behind the road that leads to something less and heading toward greatness. The great coaches point it out, the great athletes accept it.

And as the much talked-about UConn women’s documentary has been showing us, neither the turn nor the road beyond...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Timberwolves’ plan at power forward from the very beginning of this offseason up until just a couple days ago, when they agreed to a contract with Jonathan Kuminga, was equal parts hilarious, concerning and absurd.

They essentially traded their two best and most productive power forwards, Naz Reid and Julius Randle, in ...Read more

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida coach Todd Golden has signed his third contract extension in three years, making him the highest-paid Gators coach in school history.

Golden will now earn an average salary of $8.25 million annually, including $7.5 million this season — up from $6 million in 2025-26 — as part of a new six-year, $49.5 million ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mark Walter doesn't need to sell the Sparks. It said so in a release from his company Wednesday: "TWG is not looking to sell its sports assets at 'fire sale' prices to raise capital for its insurance operations."

He should sell the Sparks anyway.

Not because of the investigations into allegations that insurance companies under ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Mark Mitchell is prepared to battle the SEC in court in an attempt to play basketball for the University of Kentucky this season.

Mitchell’s legal team amended its complaint against the NCAA in a Jefferson County court Thursday to add the SEC and its commissioner, Greg Sankey, as “acting in concert or participation with ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Aces will be without forward NaLyssa Smith for the remainder of the season after the team announced Thursday that she suffered a season-ending non-contact injury to her left leg during the Aug. 23 victory over the Toronto Tempo.

Smith’s absence was expected after she missed the Aces’ first practice following ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The SEC has provided clarification on its new policy related to former professional athletes attempting a return to college sports, and the league’s stance should not negatively affect the eligibility of Kentucky basketball commitment Mark Mitchell.

Responding to a request for comment from the Herald-Leader, an SEC ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jeanie Buss is taking her siblings to court. Again.

Attorneys representing the Lakers’ controlling governor filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday to block her five siblings from trying to sell the family’s remaining 17.8% of the NBA franchise the Buss family has owned since 1979.

Jeanie contends that ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The MinnesotaTimberwolves filled a hole in their lineup by agreeing to a contract with free agent forward Jonathan Kuminga.

After losing Julius Randle in a trade with Brooklyn and Naz Reid in a trade with Charlotte, the Wolves needed someone at power forward. Kuminga, 23, who played last season for both Golden State and Atlanta,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Campbell Hall, the prestigious Studio City private school where Lakers star Byron Scott allegedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old student in 1987, has reached a confidential settlement with the woman in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The settlement amount is under seal until the conclusion of Scott's civil trial, set to begin Sept...Read more

MIAMI — Klay Thompson wasn’t going to allow numbers to get in the way, not when the opportunity was there to join Giannis Antetokounmpo as part of this latest Miami Heat rebuild.

So salary was sacrificed.

And, at 36, he said Tuesday he arrived to Kaseya Center rejuvenated.

In the wake of a whirlwind that saw the four-time champion give ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It’s been over a month since LeBron James announced he was coming to Philly to finish his career with the 76ers, and the fanfare has not slowed down.

The Sixers team store at Xfinity Mobile Arena opened on Tuesday (and will be open again on Wednesday), giving fans another opportunity to get their hands on fresh gear ahead of ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Sky owner Michael Alter isn’t backing down after the WNBA team ejected former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom from Sunday’s game against the Indiana Fever.

Kanter Freedom attended the game at Wintrust Arena and sat courtside wearing a shirt that read, “WOMAN noun. adult human female.” During a verbal exchange with Sky...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger, successful businessmen by any measure, paid $12.5 billion for the Lakers, easily the highest price ever for a sports franchise.

It was a rare chance to acquire an iconic sports brand, and by all accounts, timing was everything.

The enormous sale price has implications for the rest of the NBA and ...Read more

CHICAGO — For the third season in a row, the Chicago Sky will not compete in the WNBA playoffs.

It happened, rather fittingly, with yet another beatdown at the hands of the Indiana Fever, a team that has defeated the Sky the last nine times the two teams have met. The Sky spent the last week teetering on the edge, racking up a few last-gasp ...Read more

MIAMI — With the signing of Klay Thompson, the Miami Heat added a player who sets up as a final component of Erik Spoelstra’s 2026-27 rotation.

But that doesn’t mean the work is necessarily done — with plenty to consider before the Sept. 29 start of training camp, the Oct. 3 start of the Heat’s preseason or the Oct. 21 start of their ...Read more

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Christian Braun is channeling some serious Sith Lord vibes these days. Your hate only makes him stronger.

“It’s honestly good for you, every once in a while, to get punched in the mouth,” the Nuggets guard told me over the weekend at the Gold Crown Field House in Lakewood, home to his summer 2026 youth camp with ...Read more