NEW YORK — Tom Thibodeau can’t comment directly on players involved in incomplete trades.

So when a reporter asked the Knicks head coach about Donte DiVincenzo, the franchise’s all-time single-season 3-point leader who was traded alongside Julius Randle as part of the Karl-Anthony Towns deal, during his Monday media day press conference, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — After months of speculation and anticipation, the WNBA has finally announced the date of the Golden State Valkyries’ expansion draft.

The Valkyries, led by general manager Ohemaa Nyanin, will put together much of their inaugural roster on Dec. 6 in an event aired on ESPN.

Golden State, the WNBA’s first expansion team ...Read more

NEW YORK — Game 1 at Barclays Center went how the Liberty wanted it to.

As expected, the Las Vegas Aces kept the game close throughout and stayed within striking distance. But Breanna Stewart‘s offensive outburst kept her team in front for the entire game. And when the Liberty needed a boost down the stretch, Sabrina Ionescu delivered with ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Time to ask an impertinent question: Do we know for certain that a WNBA franchise would succeed in Philadelphia?

The 76ers and Mayor Cherelle L. Parker said Thursday that they not only want a WNBA team here but have discussed the possibility with the league’s decision-makers. Where would the team play? Glad you asked: at the ...Read more

The Los Angeles Lakers stood pat roster-wise this summer, bringing back the group that had to come out of the play-in round again last spring and then got bounced in the first round by Denver.

Is this wise? (Fans, don’t all shout “NO!” at once.)

Vice president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka is essentially ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — I always found myself defending Karl-Anthony Towns, while wondering why he always needed defending.

Great person. Great teammate. Great offensive player who improved defensively the past two years.

Now, there is no reason to defend Towns. He proved his value on the trade market.

Friday night, the Timberwolves dealt Towns to ...Read more

NEW YORK — This blockbuster move wouldn’t have been possible without Shake Milton.

When the Knicks traded Bojan Bogdanovic and five first-round picks to the Brooklyn Nets for Mikal Bridges, they faced a hard cap dilemma: get locked into the $188.9 million second apron for taking back more salary than they sent out or perform salary-cap ...Read more

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