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Ramona Shelburne, ESPN Senior WriterJun 5, 2023, 02:37 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News DENVER — Around 9 p.m. Saturday, Jimmy Butler was at a gym at the University of Colorado in Boulder working on his touch on shots near the rim. He’d had 48

Ramona Shelburne, ESPN Senior WriterJun 2, 2023, 02:05 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News DENVER — Every once in a while, when things look good but feel a little bit off, Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone will turn around in the middle of a game

Tim MacMahon, ESPN Staff WriterJun 2, 2023, 06:46 PM ET Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM No, Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic‘s point toward his hand as he walks off the floor after wins is not a reference to the championship

Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderJun 3, 2023, 02:28 PM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The Brooklyn Nets are hiring Kevin Ollie as an assistant coach, sources told ESPN on Saturday. Ollie, who won an NCAA championship as Connecticut’s coach in 2014, had been a finalist for the Detroit Pistons‘

Nick Friedell, ESPN Staff WriterJun 3, 2023, 05:37 PM ET Close Nick Friedell is the Chicago Bulls beat reporter for ESPN Chicago. Friedell is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and joined ESPNChicago.com for its launch in April 2009. DENVER — Miami Heat guard Caleb Martin missed practice

DENVER — Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant not being charged with a crime for twice displaying a gun on social media will not prevent the NBA from handing down more discipline, commissioner Adam Silver said Friday. Silver is preparing to announce whatever penalty is coming Morant’s way for the second gun incident shortly after the

Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderJun 2, 2023, 11:40 AM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The Utah Jazz‘s G League affiliate, the Salt Lake City Stars, is hiring former Marquette coach Steve Wojciechowski as head coach, sources told ESPN on Friday. Wojciechowski, who has been living in the Salt Lake

DETROIT — Monty Williams is taking over the Detroit Pistons. The team said Friday it reached an agreement with Williams to fill its coaching vacancy. Terms of the deal were not announced, but sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski Williams agreed to a six-year, $78.5 million contract. It is the largest coaching deal in NBA history.

Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderJun 2, 2023, 01:01 PM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The Phoenix Suns are finalizing a deal to hire Frank Vogel as coach, sources told ESPN on Friday. The Suns offered Vogel the job Friday morning and are expected to complete terms on a long-term

Ohm Youngmisuk, ESPN Staff WriterJun 1, 2023, 10:58 PM ET Close Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is

Ohm Youngmisuk, ESPN Staff WriterMay 31, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is

Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderMay 31, 2023, 08:41 PM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 UConn junior guard Andre Jackson Jr. — an immense part of the Huskies’ run to the national championship — plans to remain in the June NBA draft, he told ESPN on Wednesday. Jackson is one

Tim Bontemps, ESPNMay 30, 2023, 02:27 AM ET BOSTON — Jimmy Butler had the ball and surveyed the scene. It was early in the fourth quarter of Monday’s Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, and the Miami Heat had absorbed everything the Boston Celtics — and the raucous crowd inside TD Garden — had

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterMay 31, 2023, 05:59 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Kentucky star Oscar Tshiebwe announced Wednesday that he plans to keep his name in the NBA draft, ending an outstanding college career highlighted by consensus National Player of the Year honors in

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterMay 30, 2023, 01:10 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 PARIS — As she plots her 2023 French Open charge, Coco Gauff has been taking inspiration from the

Brian Windhorst, ESPN Senior WriterMay 30, 2023, 10:26 AM ET Close ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Team USA will play an exhibition game against Puerto Rico on Aug. 7 in Las Vegas to start its preparations for the FIBA World Cup later this summer. USA

May 30, 2023, 08:00 AM ET The top-seeded Denver Nuggets are headed to their first NBA Finals in franchise history and will face the surprising eighth-seeded Miami Heat, who have surged back to the Finals via the play-in tournament. The Nuggets, behind the leadership of two-time MVP Nikola Jokic, will look to win the franchise’s

Tim Bontemps, ESPNMay 30, 2023, 02:20 AM ET BOSTON — As Jayson Tatum trudged to the podium inside TD Garden long after the Boston Celtics saw their season come to an end with a 103-84 loss in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, there was a visible limp from the sprained ankle he suffered