NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player, announced his retirement on Wednesday. The 35-year-old Collins played 22 games with the Brooklyn Nets last season and was not on the roster this season. He announced his retirement in a first-person story for Sports Illustrated, saying it has been “been 18 exhilarating […]
ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith went after Philadelphia 76ers guard Michael Carter-Williams on his Sirius XM radio show Friday for criticizing coverage of the team. Last week, Carter-Williams wrote a piece for Derek Jeter’s website The Players’ Tribune, saying his 0-9 team wasn’t deliberately tanking another season just to get a high draft pick. In his […]
BOSTON (AP) — Even with almost 17 million followers on Twitter and nearly 22 million on Facebook, LeBron James didn’t hesitate when asked his preferred method of connecting with fans. “The basketball court,” the Cleveland Cavaliers star said on Thursday night during an “idea exchange” at Fenway Park. Speaking to business leaders at the home […]
Laker player Wayne Ellington Jr. is on indefinite leave from the Lakers after the murder of his father in Philadelphia. The 26-year-old guard got a text from his father earlier that evening before the game. By the time the game was over, his father was dead, the victim of a gunshot wound to head in […]
WNBA star Brittney Griner felt fortunate to be OK after getting cut on the elbow in a knife attack in China. Griner sustained a small cut when she was attacked by a man while boarding a bus after practice Monday in Shenyang. The man, who followed the players onto the bus, also stabbed one of […]
Michael Jordan got comfortable during an interview with Ahmad Rashad and was brutally honest about President Obama’s talent level on the golf course – or lack thereof. The Charlotte Hornets owner and NBA legend was asked, “Who would be in your ideal foursome?” His Airness picked Arnold Palmer and Obama but quickly backtracked on the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Lakers rookie forward Julius Randle is expected to miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery on his broken right leg. The seventh overall pick out of Kentucky broke his leg in the fourth quarter of his NBA debut in Los Angeles’ season-opening loss to the Houston Rockets […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan is learning how to win without scoring a basket. His Charlotte Hornets are winning and enter the season with high expectations. The NBA’s only African-American team owner, Jordan appears to be finally changing the losing culture around his franchise. Looking relaxed, the six-time NBA champion smiled Tuesday as he […]
DENVER (AP) — High-flying Kenneth Faried received quite a raise for elevating his game last season. The Denver Nuggets forward has agreed to a four-year, $50 million contract extension, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke Tuesday night on condition of anonymity because the team has yet to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA and its television partners couldn’t wait to extend their contracts. The league renewed its deals with ESPN and TNT even though two seasons remain on the old ones. With potential competition from Fox looming, both networks were willing to pay generously to secure the rights long term. The NBA’s […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James is back on the floor where he took his first steps in the NBA. Four years after leaving for Miami, James, again wearing the familiar No. 23 wine-and-gold Cavaliers uniform, performed for Cleveland fans as the team held a scrimmage before a nearly filled Quicken Loans Arena. After being introduced, […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California cornerback Josh Shaw confessed that he lied to school officials about how he sprained his ankles last weekend, retracting his story about jumping off a balcony to save his drowning nephew. The school swiftly suspended him Wednesday from all team activities and acknowledged his heroic tale was “a complete […]
