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Should the Sky hire Curt Miller or Stephanie White? Here are 5 options for their coaching job.

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CHICAGO — The WNBA coaching carousel is about to begin moving in earnest after the Connecticut Sun announced Monday they are parting ways with coach Stephanie White.

Seven of the league’s 13 teams are searching for a head coach — including the Chicago Sky, who fired Teresa Weatherspoon at the conclusion of a 13-27 debut season less than a...Read more

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Shorthanded Warriors recover to stun Pelicans for 1st home win of season

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SAN FRANCISCO — Without Steph Curry, Andrew Wiggins and De’Anthony Melton, the Warriors’ depth had a chance to prove that this roster is built to withstand absences like the organization believes.

It took a roundabout way for them to get there, but they proved there’s merit to that theory.

After falling behind by 20 points early in the...Read more

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Youngest Celtics player 'exceptional' off bench in win over Bucks

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BOSTON — When Sam Hauser went down with the back injury that’s now sidelined him for three straight games, Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said the plan to replace one of his top reserves would vary each night.

On Monday, it included Boston’s youngest player for the first time.

Jordan Walsh saw the biggest minutes of his NBA career against ...Read more

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Nikola Jokic triple-double leads Nuggets to second consecutive overtime win on road

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NEW YORK — To get their first win of the season, the Nuggets almost had to sacrifice their second.

Michael Malone knew the risk he was taking. It narrowly paid off Monday night in Toronto with an overtime breakthrough. But the physical strain on his starters was visible 24 hours later as they instantly struggled to defend the perimeter ...Read more

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Lakers two-way player Christian Koloko cleared to play

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LOS ANGELES — Center Christian Koloko, whom the Lakers signed to a two-way contract while he was still not cleared for competition, has been approved by a panel of doctors to return to the court for live action.

The news, which came more than a week after Koloko met with a panel of NBA doctors, means the Lakers will have an intriguing 7-foot-...Read more

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UConn men's basketball lands fourth 2025 recruit in Australian forward Jacob Furphy

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HARTFORD Conn. — UConn’s 2025 recruiting has gone international, again.

Jacob Furphy, a top Australian prospect, announced his commitment to the Huskies on Tuesday night and becomes the fourth and likely final member of UConn’s class. The news was first reported by Adam Zagoria of nj.com.

A 6-foot-5, left-handed wing, Furphy is from ...Read more

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Ivica Zubac's continued improvement is making an impact for Clippers

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LOS ANGELES — The Golden State Warriors' defense collapsed on Clippers center Ivica Zubac late in a tense game Sunday night at Chase Center in San Francisco, but he didn't panic. Zubac calmly passed out of a double team in the post to Norman Powell, who drilled a 20-foot jumper for a five-point Clippers lead with 3 minutes, 1 second left in ...Read more

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Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla wants to add power plays, fighting to NBA

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BOSTON — The Celtics’ dominance from beyond the 3-point arc has prompted some to call for NBA rule changes.

But probably not the ones Joe Mazzulla has in mind.

The Celtics’ head coach was asked Tuesday what tweaks he’d make to the NBA rulebook if he had the power to do so. His answer: introduce two elements from the other sport played ...Read more

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Hawks' injuries piling up: Bogdan Bogdanovic sidelined at least four weeks

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ATLANTA — The Hawks continue to see injuries pile up among their top rotational players. The team announced Tuesday that wing Bogdan Bogdanovic will miss at least four weeks.

Bogdanovic underwent a nonsurgical procedure Monday at the Emory Sports Medicine Complex in Brookhaven to address right hamstring tendinopathy. The Hawks guard missed ...Read more

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The NBA fines the Sixers $100,000 for 'inconsistent' statements on Joel Embiid's health

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PHILADELPHIA — The NBA has fined the 76ers $100,000 for “public statements ... that were inconsistent with Joel Embiid’s health status,” the league announced Tuesday.

The NBA investigation also confirmed that Embiid has been unable to play because of a left knee injury, meaning that his absence from the team‘s first three games did ...Read more

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Former UConn star Rudy Gay officially retires from NBA after 17 seasons

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HARTFORD, Conn. — Former UConn men’s basketball star Rudy Gay is officially calling it a career.

The former Huskies standout announced his retirement from the NBA after 17 seasons in a post on The Players’ Tribune on Tuesday.

Gay, 38, played for five different NBA teams, including spending seven seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies from ...Read more

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Joel Embiid and Paul George will remain sidelined for Sixers' game against Pistons

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PHILADELPHIA — Joel Embiid and Paul George will remain sidelined for Wednesday night’s 76ers game against the Detroit Pistons at the Wells Fargo Center.

Embiid has missed the first three games of the season as the team manages the recovery of the All-Star center’s left knee, which underwent meniscus surgery last season. Embiid also was ...Read more

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Behind the mad scramble to get Lamont Butler, the 'linchpin' of this Kentucky basketball team

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Now six months removed from the chaos, it might be easy to forget just how frenetic those first few days of the Mark Pope era actually were.

The weeklong transition that Kentucky basketball went through — from John Calipari’s stunning departure to Pope’s electric introduction — was wild enough, but what followed ...Read more

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Inside the design process of the Dwyane Wade statue that now stands in front of Kaseya Center

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MIAMI — As soon as the Miami Heat unveiled Dwyane Wade’s bronze statue in front of Kaseya Center on Sunday, the critiques began coming in on social media. But the most important opinion belongs to the one who the statue depicts.

Wade is happy with how the 8-foot statue turned out. He’s also appreciative of the honor, as it’s the first ...Read more

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LeBron James' gambit doesn't pan out as Lakers lose to Suns

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PHOENIX — LeBron James, near the end of a brutally tough shooting night, intentionally missed a free throw to try and create an offensive rebound and salvage his bad night.

But the Suns corralled the loose ball, the last big moment in a 109-105 win that gave the Lakers their first loss of the season.

Faced with a choice during a timeout ...Read more

Heat wins fourth quarter on the way to holding off winless Pistons

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MIAMI — Five takeaways from the Miami Heat’s 106-98 win over the Detroit Pistons (0-4) on Monday at Kaseya Center on Dwyane Wade Statue Night. Next up for the Heat (2-1) is a matchup against the New York Knicks on Wednesday to close a quick two-game homestand:

The winless Pistons didn’t make it easy on the Heat. But the Heat won the ...Read more

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Payton Pritchard scores 28 points off bench to help lift Celtics over Bucks, 119-108

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BOSTON — In the Celtics’ first home game of the season, Payton Pritchard attempted nine 3-pointers and missed eight of them. His stat line was one of the few blemishes on an otherwise dominant season-opening beatdown of the New York Knicks.

Boston returned to TD Garden on Monday after a brief two-game road trip. This time around, Pritchard ...Read more

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Knicks survive Jalen Brunson injury scare but lose to Cavaliers, 110-104

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NEW YORK — A deafening silence befell Madison Square Garden. New York’s prizefighter came up hobbling.

Knicks All-Star Jalen Brunson drove to the basket with 4:07 left in the third quarter of Monday’s matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers and appeared to tweak his right knee when he landed on the shot.

Brunson immediately hopped up and...Read more

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Nikola Jokic scores 40, Jamal Murray forces overtime as Nuggets outlast Raptors for first win of season

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TORONTO — Arriving in Canada with more pressure on them than the third game of a season should ever entail, the Nuggets had an opportunity to leave their bad start behind in Denver.

Instead, they’re bringing it back through U.S. customs and to Brooklyn for their Tuesday back-to-back — but with unimaginably heightened spirits after a 127-...Read more

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Greg Cote: 'Who is that guy?' Dwyane Wade deserves immortality of statue -- iffy likeness or not.

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MIAMI — The whole idea of erecting a bronze statue in someone’s honor is to convey immortality, to glorify a name and an accomplishment that should live on in perpetuity.

Dwyane Wade rises to that standard, as he rose to meet or exceed everything else across his 16-year NBA career.

If the planet still exists 100 years from now, if Miami ...Read more