Basketball

Draymond Green showed Dennis Smith Jr. no sympathy. Empathy may have been appropriate. A welcome-to-the-league moment happened in Dallas on Monday night, when the Mavericks’ promising point guard went at the Golden State veteran — and the NBA’s top defensive player — with hopes of dunking on him. Smith got fouled at the rim, both […]

App Feed, Basketball, HBCU Sports, NBA

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA said Tuesday there were five incorrect non-calls on the wild final sequence in San Antonio, including a foul on Oklahoma City’s Dion Waiters that referees earlier had already acknowledged they missed. The league agreed with the refs that Waiters should’ve been whistled for knocking Manu Ginobili back with his […]

Basketball, HBCU Sports, NBA

AN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs handled the Heat, and the heat, during a sweltering start to the NBA Finals. Tim Duncan had 21 points and 10 rebounds, and the Spurs beat Miami 110-95 on Thursday night in Game 1 inside a steamy AT&T Center. With an air conditioning failure making it feel […]

National News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — V. Stiviano, the woman whom Donald Sterling was talking to when he made racist remarks, is “very saddened” by his lifetime NBA ban, and she didn’t release the recording of their conversation, her lawyer said Tuesday. Stiviano “never wanted any harm to Donald,” Siamak Nehoray of Calabasas told the Los Angeles […]