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6:05 PM ET The Milwaukee Bucks have boycotted Game 5 on Wednesday against the Orlando Magic to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The NBA announced shortly after that all of Wednesday’s playoff games — including Game 5 between the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder and Game 5 between the

1:56 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — With Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals between the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors just over 24 hours away from its scheduled tip, the possibility of boycotting the game remains on the table for both teams in the wake of the police shooting of

1:58 AM ET It took 13 months from when they started believing they were going to win a championship that the LA Clippers had to finally play a truly meaningful game. Oh, there were important games, like the first few in their series with the Dallas Mavericks. There were games they badly wanted, like opening

6:53 PM ET Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo was named the 2019-20 NBA Defensive Player of the Year on Tuesday. Antetokounmpo won the award in a landslide, receiving 75 first-place votes from a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters and earning 432 points total. The 2018-19 MVP, Antetokounmpo becomes just the fifth player to win

6:30 AM ET Under every socially distanced player seat in the gyms in the NBA bubble is one of the newest pieces of league technology — and it has Kobe Bryant’s fingerprints on it. Last month, the NBA announced a partnership with Hyperice, a recovery technology company based in Orange County, California, that provides all

12:00 AM ET It’s excruciating to watch, but Trevor Ariza does anyway. He hasn’t missed a minute of his Portland Trail Blazers team competing in the Orlando, Florida, bubble, and he screamed so vociferously and triumphantly when the Blazers put the finishing touches on their shocking Game 1 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers, his

11:00 PM ET Game 4 between the Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers was always going to be memorable. It was taking place on August 24 — 8/24, the numbers that the late Kobe Bryant wore. Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among nine people who died in a helicopter crash in January. The

1:18 PM ET The Toronto Raptors say that Kyle Lowry has been diagnosed with a left ankle sprain and that his condition will be updated as appropriate. Toronto’s Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Boston Celtics begins on Thursday. With just a little more than three minutes left in the first quarter of Sunday’s Game

2:17 AM ET Moments after Paul Millsap blocked his shot and stared him down, Donovan Mitchell had the ball on the left wing, a one-point Utah Jazz lead and Millsap standing in his way. Mitchell sized up the Denver Nuggets power forward, dribbled between his legs and drilled a 25-footer before staring at the Denver

9:20 PM ET When Luka Doncic first stepped foot on the AdventHealth Arena court Sunday afternoon, he hoped to prove to himself and the Dallas Mavericks’ medical staff that he could play in Game 4, about 40 hours after spraining his left ankle. Doncic received clearance to play and then proceeded to deliver a historic

2:37 PM ET Dallas Mavericks star guard Luka Doncic will play in Sunday afternoon’s Game 4 against the LA Clippers despite spraining his left ankle in Friday night’s Game 3 loss. Doncic warmed up about an hour and a half before Game 4 before his status was determined. A source told ESPN that an MRI

1:21 AM ET Over his 17 seasons in the NBA, LeBron James has developed a system to prepare for the playoffs. There is a ramp up at some point in the last third of the NBA season. A handful of games where he pushes himself to play more minutes than most observers would probably like

4:05 PM ET Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic is officially listed as questionable for Sunday’s Game 4 due to a sprained left ankle that caused him to exit Friday night’s 130-122 loss to the LA Clippers in the fourth quarter. Coach Rick Carlisle said he anticipates that the Mavs will not know whether Doncic is

1:29 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse was named the NBA’s Coach of the Year for the 2019-20 season on Saturday afternoon. Nurse, who led the Raptors to the NBA championship last season, received 90 of the 100 first-place votes from a panel of media members. He

2:15 AM ET The Western Conference quarterfinals between the #2 LA Clippers and #7 Dallas Mavericks is headed to a Game 4 on Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC), with the Clippers leading the Mavericks 2-1 following Friday night’s 130-122 Game 3 win by the Clippers. This matchup has pitted the top two offenses in the

5:41 PM ET Golden State Warriors president Rick Welts issued a public apology Friday to Toronto Raptors counterpart Masai Ujiri for an altercation with a deputy sheriff that happened as Ujiri was trying to walk onto the court in Oakland after the deciding game of the 2019 Finals. “To my personal and professional friend Masai

10:49 AM ET After returning to campus after the birth of his son, Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley Jr. is clearing quarantine on Friday morning and will be in the lineup for Game 3 of the Western Conference first-round series against the Denver Nuggets today, sources tell ESPN. Conley is expected to return as

11:26 PM ET Portland Trail Blazers star guard Damian Lillard left Thursday’s 111-88 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the third quarter because of a dislocated left index finger. X-rays on Lillard’s finger were negative, the team announced. Lillard, who scored 18 points on 6-of-14 shooting in 30 minutes, did not return to the