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Associated Press Mar 9, 2024, 03:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — D’Angelo Russell scored 21 of his season-high 44 points in the fourth quarter and hit a go-ahead jumper with 5.9 seconds to play, and the Los Angeles Lakers overcame LeBron James‘ injury absence for a 123-122 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks

Dave McMenamin, ESPN Staff WriterMar 8, 2024, 05:54 PM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — LeBron James has been downgraded to out for the Los

ESPN News Services Mar 7, 2024, 11:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — Anthony Edwards matched his season high with 44 points, made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 1:11 to go and came up with a spectacular block at the buzzer to give the short-handed Minnesota Timberwolves a 113-111 victory over the Indiana Pacers on

Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPNMar 7, 2024, 10:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star center Karl-Anthony Towns will undergo surgery to repair a torn left meniscus, and sources told ESPN on Thursday night that he is expected to be back by early in the Western Conference playoffs. Towns will be re-evaluated in four weeks, but

Ramona Shelburne, ESPN Senior WriterMar 7, 2024, 06:00 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Open Extended Reactions MAT ISHBIA SAYS he’s never had a cup of coffee. He doesn’t need caffeine, or an alarm clock. On Tuesday, he’d been up and going since 3:30 a.m.

Tim Bontemps, ESPNMar 7, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ALL STEPHEN CURRY could do was shrug. It was Sunday inside the TD Garden visiting locker room, and the NBA-leading Boston Celtics had just handed the Golden State Warriors their worst defeat ever with the two-time MVP in the lineup. The 140-88 drubbing featured

Associated Press Mar 6, 2024, 09:34 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The San Antonio Spurs have ruled rookie Victor Wembanyama out of their game against the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night because of a sprained right ankle. Wembanyama appeared to roll the ankle in the second quarter of San Antonio’s game at

Field Level Media Mar 6, 2024, 06:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns was ruled out of Thursday’s road game against the Indiana Pacers with left knee soreness. Towns, who will miss his third game of the season, also sat out Feb. 27 against the San Antonio Spurs for personal reasons.

Mar 6, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions We’re in the final third of the 2023-24 NBA regular season, and the race for the postseason in both conferences is tight. In the West, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets are all within a half-game with each other, jostling for the No.

Tim Bontemps, ESPNMar 6, 2024, 01:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CLEVELAND — For three quarters Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics were in cruise control. Then, in seemingly the blink of an eye, their 22-point, fourth-quarter lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers — who, by the time the frame began, were missing three starters — was

Mar 5, 2024, 06:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions An MRI on Jalen Brunson‘s left knee came back clean but the New York Knicks star guard will still be out for Tuesday’s game against the Atlanta Hawks, according to head coach Tom Thibodeau. Brunson went down with what first appeared to be a serious knee

ESPN News Services Mar 5, 2024, 12:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was forced to come off the bench in Monday night’s 119-114 win over the Portland Trail Blazers because he missed the opening tipoff. Nickeil Alexander-Walker replaced him on the court, and the Wolves were awarded a delay of

Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPNMar 4, 2024, 06:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LA Clippers guard Russell Westbrook — one of the NBA’s top sixth men — underwent surgery on his fractured left hand on Monday, and there’s hope he’ll return before the start of the Western Conference playoffs in April, sources told ESPN. Westbrook fractured his

Mar 4, 2024, 05:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Cleveland Cavaliers star guard Donovan Mitchell received a platelet-rich plasma injection Monday to treat a bone bruise in his left knee and will be out at least the next three games, the team announced. Mitchell has missed the past two games with knee soreness. He will

ESPN News Services Mar 4, 2024, 01:28 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PHOENIX — Jusuf Nurkic broke the Suns‘ franchise record with 31 rebounds, the most in an NBA game in 14 years, but he didn’t want to talk much about the feat after a 118-110 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night.

ESPN News Services Mar 3, 2024, 07:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CLEVELAND — Knicks All-Star guard Jalen Brunson had to be helped off the floor Sunday because of a left knee injury — a potentially devastating setback for New York — in the first minute of a 107-98 win over the Cavaliers. However, Knicks

Mar 3, 2024, 04:05 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Phoenix Suns star guard Devin Booker is out for Sunday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder with a right ankle sprain. Booker sprained the ankle late in the Suns’ loss to the Houston Rockets on Saturday night after his feet got tangled with teammate Royce O’Neale.

Dave McMenamin, ESPN Staff WriterMar 2, 2024, 09:36 PM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — LeBron James continues to extend his career to uncharted territory,