The NBA will use a playoff tournament to determine the seventh and eighth seeds in the 2020-2021 postseason, according to a new format unveiled by the league on Tuesday. The shortened season tips off on December 22, with each team playing 72 games rather than the traditional 82 games in order to...
The 2020 NBA Draft takes place on Wednesday with questions swirling around the likely identity of the No.1 pick as teams attempt to gauge talent after a college season decimated by Covid-19. Barely four weeks after LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers clinched the NBA Finals after a marathon,...
Greek-Nigerian Nikos Okekuoyen is following in the footsteps of NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and hopes he too will play in the top basketball league in the world. The 23-year-old, 2.12-metre tall power forward/centre is the only Greek player eligible to be selected in the 2020 NBA draft scheduled...
The Oklahoma City Thunder promoted assistant Mark Daigneault to head coach, succeeding Billy Donovan who departed in September after the team's playoff exit. Daigneault has risen to the position after six years with the club that included a head coaching assignment with Oklahoma City's...
The NBA's board of governors formally approved a deal for a shortened 2020-2021 season on Tuesday, with the new campaign tipping off on December 22. An NBA statement said the league's board unanimously approved adjustments to the current collective bargaining agreement, which has been impacted by...
LeBron James' Twitter account NBA star LeBron James didn't need any caption to describe his mood over the victory of Democratic bet Joe Biden against Republican Donald Trump in the US Presidential Election. In a caption-less Instagram post Sunday , LeBron shared an edited throwback meme of Biden...
NBA team owners and the players union will conduct separate meetings Thursday that are expected to produce a deal to start the 2020-21 campaign on December 22, according to multiple reports Wednesday. The National Basketball Players Association and the league are expected to agree upon a season...
Just like any mother, actress Jackie Forster won't allow anyone to judge her children. That's why when a netizen left a "negative" comment about her 23-year-old son Kobe, she couldn't help but respond to it. "Sayang kung nakapagtiis lang sya at nag tiyaga sana nasa NBA na sya at regular ngaun si...
Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz and Tony Bradley of the Utah Jazz high-five during a game on December 7, 2019 at vivint.SmartHome Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images/AFP Ryan Smith, co-founder of software developer Qualtrics, has agreed to purchase the NBA's Utah...
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (Photo by Stacy Revere / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) The NBA is looking at starting a 72-game 2020-21 season in December and finishing in time for players to compete at the Tokyo Olympics according to multiple reports Friday. The Athletic and ESPN, citing unnamed...
This year's NBA Draft will be staged in virtual fashion from the ESPN studios in Bristol, Connecticut, the league announced Thursday. The Covid-19 pandemic that halted the season in March and led to the playoffs being staged at a quarantine bubble in Orlando will also wipe out the usual gathering...
Photo from Instagram account of Jimmy Butler Jimmy Butler must be loving the Miami life. After lifting the Heat to their first NBA Finals appearance in six years, Butler found himself chilling during the well-deserved offseason vacation. In a series of photos and Instagram Stories, Butler can be...
