Australia’s Opals will be without rising star Ezi Magbegor for a World Cup qualifying tournament in Serbia with coach Sandy Brondello saying the squad had “learnt valuable lessons from 2021”. A 12-strong women’s squad was confirmed for next week’s event in the Balkans (February 10-13), but 22-year-old Magbegor hurt her ankle at training this week. While the Opals have qualified […]

Dejan Vasiljevic is confident the Kings are back to “full strength” following their fiery 96-81 win over the Perth Wildcats on Sunday. Vasiljevic was hit twice in the face by Matt Hodgson during the clash between the long-time rivals after “mouthing off” to the Wildcats centre. Fans were pushed out of the way as the melee spilt out into the […]

Utah Jazz sharpshooter Joe Ingles has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will undergo surgery. The Jazz said an MRI revealed the torn ACL but no other structural damage and surgery will take place “in the next several weeks”. The Australian is out indefinitely, but he undoubtedly is lost for the season. The injury occurred in […]

Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Andrew Jones, a basketball standout at Texas who underwent treatment for leukemia earlier in his college career, will donate a portion of his NIL money to cancer research. Jones announced Friday that he will partner with The V Foundation, created by ESPN in former NC State coach […]

When Sydney Kings forward Wani Swaka Lo Buluk was four years old, his family fled worn-torn Sudan searching for a better life. Knowing little English, the family initially struggled with the move to Perth. But when Swaka Lo Buluk discovered basketball, everything became much simpler. Leading into Sydney’s clash with his former team, Perth Wildcats, Swaka Lo Buluk has opened […]

You will hear from various entities about the shrinking number of days or weeks remaining between now and Selection Sunday. Don’t listen. Don’t count the days. March is glorious, but it will arrive when it is scheduled to arrive. If one spends too much time obsessing about the impending NCAA Tournament, it’s too easy to miss the wonders of the […]

The No. 12-ranked Kentucky Wildcats will travel to Allen Fieldhouse to face the No. 5 Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday (6 p.m. ET, ESPN and ESPN app) in a Sonic Blockbuster matchup that will also serve as the premier matchup of the day’s SEC/Big 12 Challenge. Seven top 25-ranked teams, more than a dozen that appear in the latest version of […]

Since Mike Krzyzewski arrived in the Research Triangle to become head basketball coach at Duke in March of 1980, just short of 42 years ago, approximately 1,050 young men have been selected to participate in the McDonald’s All-American Game. Fully 8 percent of them then went on to play for Coach K. There haven’t always been 358 NCAA Division I […]

The SN Draft Lab puts the top college, G League and international players under the microscope as we build towards the 2022 NBA Draft. NBA scouts face the tall task of evaluating talent not only based on what players can do now but how they project in the NBA game moving forward. Throughout the 2021-22 season, Sporting News will break down the […]

Chris Goulding and Jo Lual-Acuil starred as Melbourne United won their seventh game in a row by beating Adelaide 36ers 97-78 in Adelaide on Saturday night. Goulding and Lual-Acuil notched 18 points each as the visitors took control of the game in the second quarter with a 19-2 run and were never troubled again. David Barlow and Jo Lual-Acuil of […]