Mar.22 – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points against his former team and Jalen Williams added 20 as the Oklahoma City Thunder consolidated their playoff position with a 101-100 win over the host Los Angeles Clippers. Josh Giddey scored 13 points and Isaiah Joe added 12 as the Thunder won for the eighth time in the … Read more
Mar.18 – Kyrie Irving scored 38 points on his return from a foot injury and Maxi Kleber hit a three-pointer as the visiting Dallas Mavericks clinched a 111-110 win on Friday, winning consecutive games for the first time in more than a month. Tim Hardaway Jr. and Christian Wood scored 12 points each as the … Read more
Mar. 17 – Domantas Sabonis scored 24 points and 21 rebounds for 56th in the league and recorded a double-double as the Sacramento Kings posted their first winning season since 2005-06 with a 101-96 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night in New York City . The Kings won their 10th win in 12 … Read more
Mar. 13 – RJ Barrett scored 13 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter as the New York Knicks broke a three-game losing streak with a 112-108 win over the host Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night. Julius Randle led the Knicks with 33 points after shooting 5-of-24 in his previous game, but Barrett … Read more
January 23 – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points, including a go-ahead bucket with 9.2 seconds left, and the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder beat the short-handed Denver Nuggets 101-99 on Sunday night. Josh Giddey had 18 points and nine rebounds, and Kenrich Williams scored 11 points for Oklahoma City, which ended the Nuggets’ nine-game winning streak … Read more
January 22 – Jaylen Brown scored 27 points and the visiting Boston Celtics defeated the Toronto Raptors 106-104 on Saturday to extend their winning streak to nine games, matching their longest of the season. Reserves Grant Williams and Malcolm Brogdon added 25 and 23 points for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard scored all 12 of his … Read more
Jan 18 (Reuters) – The NBA returns to Paris on Thursday for the first time in three years amid growing optimism in France that the men’s national team could win Olympic gold on home soil next year. Tickets to see the Chicago Bulls face the Detroit Pistons at Accor Arena sold out in minutes and … Read more
January 6 – Lauri Markkanen scored a career-high 49 points and the Utah Jazz snapped a five-game losing streak with a 131-114 road win over the Houston Rockets on Thursday. Markkanen finished 15-for-27 from the floor and 13-for-13 from the free-throw line. The 25-year-old Finland native, whose previous high was 38 points, also corralled eight … Read more
LOS ANGELES, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Basketball fans in China are watching NBA games at levels close to where they were before Chinese state broadcaster CCTV took the league off the air for 18 months following a 2019 rift, a source familiar with the league’s viewership date told Reuters. Viewership has jumped 80% for the … Read more
NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association has been sued by three longtime referees who say the league fired them this year after they refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 over religious objections. In a complaint filed on Saturday in Manhattan federal court, Kenny Mauer, Mark Ayotte and Jason Phillips said the … Read more