ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books MIAMI — The Denver Nuggets agreed Friday to a strategic draft-pick trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder, a reminder that even during the NBA Finals the business of planning for the future doesn’t stop. The Miami Heat might need to call the Thunder soon, too, […]

Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News MIAMI — Calvin Booth would love to tell you that he and the Denver Nuggets front office foresaw a night such as Friday when they traded for Aaron Gordon in March 2021. That they’d run all the models and scoured hundreds of hours of tape on the […]

Initial thoughts from the Nuggets’ win over the Miami Heat in Game 4 of the NBA Finals: 1. Bam Adebayo deserves a yellow card: With international soccer stars Neymar and Paul Pogba in attendance, Heat center Bam Adebayo made a point to sure as heck do them proud. Because his dive with 9:06 left in the game was straight out […]

Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Boston Celtics forward Grant Williams — who’ll be a restricted free agent this summer — had surgery on his left hand Friday that is expected to have him fully recovered for the start of NBA training camp in the fall, sources told ESPN. The surgery, considered successful, comes after Williams hurt […]

To be able to buy a professional sports team it helps to have millions in the bank. For Mukesh Ambani, millions is just pocket change. The 66-year-old is the 13th richest man in the world, according to Forbes, and thanks to his various enterprises he has enough money to buy any team in the world, and still have plenty of […]

Princess Royal watched snooker championship final, Mark Selby says Innocent snooker players unwittingly dragged into one of sport’s greatest match-fixing scandals reacted with horror yesterday. Rob Milkins was one of the players of last season – winning the Welsh Open and pocketing around £400,000 after claiming a bumper series bonus. But as 10 Chinese players were banned including Liang Wenbo […]

Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Duke freshman forward Dariq Whitehead — a projected first-round pick in this month’s NBA draft — underwent a right foot procedure but is expected to be fully recovered for the start of NBA training camp. Whitehead, who had an initial procedure on his right foot in August, underwent a second surgery […]

BEFORE VICTOR WEMBANYAMA could properly introduce himself to the basketball world last October, first, he had to warm up. Curious onlookers at the Dollar Loan Center outside of Las Vegas — many of whom were NBA scouts — congregated early on the floor to find Wembanyama going through somewhat unusual paces ahead of his debut on American soil. Of course, […]

In 2010, Ish Smith believed he found a home in Houston. When he signed with the Rockets as a rookie, he was confident this was the franchise he would spend his career with. “I’m gonna be here for 10 years,” Smith recalled thinking. Life had other plans. Several other plans. Smith bounced between the Rockets and their G League affiliate […]

Mark Kiszla, sports columnist The championship series is a bad place to have a crisis of confidence, and Nuggets coach Michael Malone clearly doesn’t trust Michael Porter Jr. Rather than assign blame for this uneasy relationship, I’d like to focus on how to beat the Heat. Miami coach Erik Spoelstra adjusted his lineup before Game 2. Is Malone willing to […]