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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City Thunder have signed Gabriel Deck to a multi-year contract, the team announced on Tuesday. Deck’s deal is for four years and $14.5M, sources tell ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Deck, a 6-foot-8 forward who played for Argentina at the 2016 Olympics, spent the last three seasons with Real Madrid of the

Fresh off a 111-96 loss to the New York Knicks in which the Los Angeles Lakers committed a season-high 25 turnovers, point guard Dennis Schroder was asked about his team’s mounting miscues. “Thank you,” Schroder said sarcastically when a reporter mentioned L.A. ranking dead last in the league in turnovers per game. “Thank you. Thank

The Brooklyn Nets, Philadelphia 76ers and Milwaukee Bucks have all separated themselves from the pack in the Eastern Conference. The rest of the standings? Well, that picture is much less clear. With six teams — the Atlanta Hawks, Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets, Boston Celtics, New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers — separated by just three

Even Stephen Curry couldn’t believe he was on the verge of surpassing a record held by the great Wilt Chamberlain. “That’s surreal to be honest,” Curry said after a loss to the Atlanta Hawks last week, after which he sat 129 points behind the Warriors’ all-time lead. “[Chamberlain has] got a lot of buckets. Obviously

It was a potential NBA Finals preview, albeit with superstars on both squads sidelined with injuries. Nevertheless, Los Angeles Lakers guard Dennis Schroder called L.A.’s 126-101 beatdown of the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday “the best win of the year.” The visiting Lakers were playing without stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis as well as Kyle

PORTLAND, Ore. — With each rebound that Enes Kanter added to his new Portland Trail Blazers record, his teammates on the bench wildly cheered. Kanter had 24 points and a franchise-record 30 rebounds, and the Blazers beat the Detroit Pistons 118-103 on Saturday night. Kanter bested Sidney Wicks’ Portland record of 27 rebounds set in

Former major league slugger Alex Rodriguez and billionaire Marc Lore are finalizing a deal to purchase the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx from majority owner Glen Taylor, sources told ESPN on Saturday. The purchase price in the deal is expected to be in the $1.5 billion range, sources said. Taylor will continue to hold full

SALT LAKE CITY — NBA games are usually full of chatter on the court. But some of the things the Sacramento Kings said to Joe Ingles made Donovan Mitchell take notice. Ingles can talk trash with the best of them, and it gets him going, but Mitchell turned his indignation into aggression for the Utah

Los Angeles Lakers superstar Anthony Davis will be re-evaluated by team doctors in L.A. this week and could return to play in the next 10 to 14 days and LeBron James could be right behind him, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Davis, out since Feb. 14 with a calf strain and tendinosis in his right

Vanderbilt sophomore guard Scotty Pippen Jr. has declared for the 2021 NBA draft without signing with an agent to keep his options open. Pippen, the son of the Chicago Bulls Hall of Famer, led the Commodores in scoring (20.8 PPG), assists (4.9 APG) and steals (1.8 SPG) last season. He ranked second in the SEC

12:15 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN THE SECOND THE basketball slips into Lonzo Ball‘s hands, he’s got one target in mind. It’s March 1 and the New Orleans Pelicans are down by six to the Utah Jazz early in the third quarter. After a Mike Conley 3, Pelicans wing Brandon Ingram takes the inbounds pass and

MIAMI — Victor Oladipo will not be with the Miami Heat when they depart Saturday for a four-game West Coast trip, and more evaluation will be required before the team knows the full extent of his right-knee issue. Oladipo hurt the knee during the fourth quarter of Miami’s win over the Los Angeles Lakers on

Arkansas guard Moses Moody has hired an agent and will enter the 2021 NBA draft, he announced Friday on The Jump. The 6-foot-6 freshman is the No. 21 ranked prospect in ESPN’s latest best available list. Moody was one of three freshman in the country to average 15 points and five rebounds as he led

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green said Thursday that he believes his tweets about women’s sports and the pay gap with male athletes have been “extremely misconstrued,” saying in part, “I am on their side.” Green spoke about the topic one day after U.S. women’s national team star Megan Rapinoe ripped his remarks, saying it

Golden State Warriors president and chief operating officer Rick Welts, a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, will retire after the 2020-21 NBA season, it was announced Thursday. Welts, 68, has spent 46 years working in the NBA, and in 2011, he became the most prominent sports executive to acknowledge that he

After missing almost two months because of a left hamstring strain, Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant quieted any lingering doubts about his health as the playoffs near: He looked like the same superstar he has always been. Durant, coming off the bench Wednesday in his return from a 23-game absence, scored 17 points on 5-of-5

DETROIT — Dr. Benjamin Paolucci, a longtime team physician for the Detroit Pistons who was with the franchise for each of its three NBA championships, has died. He was 84. The Pistons said Paolucci died Wednesday in Florida. Paolucci retired from the organization in 2015 after serving the Pistons’ medical needs for more than 40

Marc Gasol might have just turned in his best effort since joining the Los Angeles Lakers in Tuesday’s 110-101 win over the Toronto Raptors, but L.A. coach Frank Vogel remained resolute: Andre Drummond is the team’s starting center. “No, we’re going to start Andre. That’s what we signed him here for,” Vogel said. “We need