Category: Sport

OKLAHOMA CITY — Donovan Mitchell hit a go-ahead layup with 7 seconds left and finished with 20 points, lifting the Utah Jazz over the Oklahoma City Thunder 110-109 on Monday night. Bogan Bogdanovich scored 23 points and Mike Conley added 20 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists for the Jazz, who ended a 17-game losing […]

LOS ANGELES — The NBA season has returned, and so has the NBC Sports daily NBA roundup Three Things to Know — everything you might have missed, every key moment from the night before in the Association in one place. 1) Dallas makes history with 50-point halftime lead over Clippers, 51-point victoryThis was a throwback […]

Even while emerging into a quality starter, Nets point guard Spencer Dinwiddie recruited star point guard Kyrie Irving. Irving joined Brooklyn in a package deal with Kevin Durant, another ball-dominant star. Dinwiddie pledged to take a glue-guy role. But just as the super-charged Nets are getting off the ground, Dinwiddie suffered an ACL injury. Shams […]

Let’s just hope this is not as ugly as it looks. Just minutes before halftime, Grizzlies rising star Ja Morant contested a Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot elbow jumper, but his left foot landed on top of Luwawu-Cabarrot’s foot and Morant’s ankle rolled severely. Morant was instantly in pain, hopped on one foot behind the basket and collapsed, […]

This is one way to spend your 36th birthday. With a turnaround shot in the lane, LeBron James scored his 10th point in Wednesday’s Lakers game against the Spurs — his 1,000th consecutive game with at least 10 points. LeBron is the only player to have reached this number and already held the NBA record, […]

SAN ANTONIO — Becky Hammon would have preferred a victory over history after becoming the first woman to direct an NBA team. The assistant coach took over the San Antonio Spurs in the second quarter after coach Gregg Popovich was ejected in a 121-107 loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday […]

1) After years of preparation, three words sent Becky Hammon into NBA history“You got ’em.” Legendary Spurs (and current USA Basketball) coach Gregg Popovich gets ejected once or twice a season, on average. Wednesday night against the Lakers was one of those days; a no-call on a driving DeMar DeRozan layup attempt with 3:56 left […]