MINNEAPOLIS — Just a few days before they open training camp on Tuesday, the Timberwolves made a stunning, franchise-altering move.

The Wolves traded mainstay center Karl-Anthony Towns to the Knicks for All-Star Julius Randle, guard Donte DiVincenzo and a first-round pick from Detroit.

An NBA source confirmed the trade.

The move is a ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Julius Randle era at Madison Square Garden has come to an end, and for north New Jersey native Karl-Anthony Towns, homecoming is here early.

The Knicks traded Randle, a three-time All-Star, Donte DiVincenzo, the franchise’s all-time single-season 3-point leader, and a future first-round pick to the Timberwolves in exchange ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Lakers have hired Dr. Vanessa Brooks as their head athletic trainer, people with knowledge of the situation not authorized to speak publicly on the matter told The Los Angeles Times. The position on the Lakers' medical staff had been open after Roger Sancho left the organization to take a job with the Phoenix Suns.

Brooks ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Clippers swingman Terance Mann has agreed to a three-year, $47 million extension with the only NBA team he has ever played on, one of his agents, Aaron Mintz of CAA, confirmed to The Los Angeles Times on Friday.

Mann, 27, had one year left on a deal that pays him $11.4 million for the 2024-25 season. With the extension, the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Sydney Colson caught a glimpse of the doorway at the Aces’ practice facility Thursday and gave her teammates a disclaimer.

“The media’s here. Y’all need to give them something to talk about,” Colson said, shouting.

And as soon the team’s scrimmage resumed, that’s exactly what they did.

This wasn’t a normal ...Read more

NEW YORK — Once again, the spotlight shown on WNBA talent on the court is being shifted towards the topic of the Caitlin Clark-Indiana Fever fandom spewing racist and misogynistic vitriol toward players off the court.

The Connecticut Sun's DiJonai Carrington is the latest player to reveal an ugly message from the Fever fanbase. Carrington, ...Read more

Angel Reese said earlier this year she is willing to "take the villain role" in the interest of "growing women's basketball."

Now, however, the Chicago Sky star feels that approach has "backfired on me."

The WNBA released a statement Wednesday night saying it "will not tolerate racist, derogatory, or threatening comments" toward anyone ...Read more

NEW YORK — Hall of Famer and 2008 Boston Celtics champion Paul Pierce has little faith in the new-look Knicks’ championship prospects, going so far as to say that he doesn’t expect the franchise to win an NBA title during his lifetime.

On a recent episode of his podcast with fellow Hall of Famer and former teammate Kevin Garnett, Pierce ...Read more

DETROIT — Detroit Pistons team owner Tom Gores is expanding his business outside of the NBA.

Gores is planning to buy a 27% stake in the Los Angeles Chargers, a league source confirmed Friday to The Detroit News. Pro Football Talk was first to report the planned purchase.

PFT reported that Gores would have no "day-to-day involvement" with ...Read more

CHICAGO — The tailspin for the Chicago Sky continues.

After rumors swirled Thursday on social media, the team officially announced Friday they had fired coach Teresa Weatherspoon less than a year after hiring her.

When Weatherspoon was hired 11 months ago, the Sky had zero draft assets thanks to trades done by former GM/coach James Wade, who...Read more

The banners above the practice court, the names of legends on the wall and, most important, the trophies in Jeanie Buss’ window in the Lakers’ practice facility tell the story of the team’s past.

As the organization nears the start of the 2024-25 season, general manager Rob Pelinka reiterated it.

Excellence is the standard that helped ...Read more

Connecticut Sun star Alyssa Thomas was asked Wednesday night about her team's ability to "shut out the noise" that has come on social media during its WNBA playoff series against the Indiana Fever.

Thomas gave a thoughtful answer that ended with a plea to the league to help shut down the noise.

After Connecticut's series-clinching 87-81 win ...Read more

Sixteen years after igniting a frenzy of fandom when the Bulls selected him with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, Chicago native Derrick Rose is retiring from basketball.

Rose leaves a legacy of hope and heartbreak. Two state championships with Simeon. An MVP trophy, Rookie of the Year award and three All-Star selections with the Bulls. Four ...Read more

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — The Connecticut Sun are headed back to the semifinals of the WNBA Playoffs for the sixth consecutive season after sweeping the Indiana Fever with a decisive 87-81 win in Game 2 of the first-round series Wednesday at Mohegan Sun Arena.

The Sun advance to face the winner of the first-round series between the No. 2 Minnesota ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The banners above the practice court, the names of legends on the wall and, most important, the trophies in Jeanie Buss' window in the Lakers' practice facility tell the story of the team's past.

As the organization nears the start of the 2024-25 season, general manager Rob Pelinka reiterated it.

Excellence is the standard that...Read more

CHICAGO — Four years into the job as Chicago Bulls vice president of basketball operations, Artūras Karnišovas isn’t changing his messaging.

The Bulls enter this season carrying the sour taste of missing the playoffs via the play-in tournament for two consecutive years — and the weight of an impending draft pick that hinges on another ...Read more

BOSTON — It will come as no surprise to anyone who watched him during it, but Joe Mazzulla loved the Celtics’ championship parade through the streets of Boston. Loved it.

The weeks that followed? Not so much.

“I mean, I wouldn’t say I enjoyed the offseason,” Mazzulla deadpanned Tuesday during Celtics media day. “I enjoyed the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mitchel Robinson is missing games, and the season hasn’t even started yet.

Robinson, the spry seven-foot center who endured a pair of stress fractures to his left ankle last season, is not expected to be available to start the season with the Knicks targeting a December-January return date, a league source confirmed to The New ...Read more

Caitlin Clark scored 11 points Sunday during her WNBA postseason debut. That's well below the Indiana Fever star's season average of 19.2 points a game.

She made only 24% of her shots and 15% from three-point range, also well below her season averages of 42% and 34%.

At one point during the third quarter of her team's 93-69 loss to the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Napheesa Collier played 39 minutes, 51 seconds of a possible 40 minutes on Sunday. She scored 38 points, second most in Lynx playoff history to Maya Moore’s 40 in the 2015 Western Conference finals.

She also made 10 consecutive free throws before missing her 11th attempt during the fourth quarter. She ended with 13 made free ...Read more