Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The Phoenix Suns are advancing four candidates to a final round of interviews this week, including two NBA championship coaches: Nick Nurse and Doc Rivers, sources told ESPN on Tuesday night. Nurse and Rivers will meet with senior leadership along with two rising stars in the coaching profession: Suns associate head […]

The 2023 NBA draft combine is in the books, concluding a week in Chicago that will forever be highlighted by the San Antonio Spurs’ winning the draft lottery and the right to select 19-year-old French phenom Victor Wembanyama with the No. 1 pick. NBA executives from all 30 teams were on hand to get a closer look at this year’s […]

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. IT’S AN HOUR after the Miami Heat shocked the basketball world, taking a 2-0 lead over the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals. And […]

Furious man pushes over Just Stop Oil protestor before throwing their social media guy’s phone across the street Barry Hearn revealed he plans to ‘ruin the life’ of a Just Stop Oil protestor who forced play to be suspended at the World Snooker Championship in April. An individual ran from the crowd and covered the table in an orange substance, […]

Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. LOS ANGELES — LeBron James made his way down the ramp to exit the arena Monday night, having just completed his 20th NBA season with an unceremonious sweep out of the playoffs, […]

LOS ANGELES – Not even history can break routine. Nikola Jokic had just shredded the Los Angeles Lakers in tidy fashion en route to the Denver Nuggets’ first-ever trip to the NBA Finals. He’d played 45 minutes, 16 seconds, of sublime, scintillating basketball, including all 24 minutes of the second half. He’d bullied Anthony Davis for his third triple-double in […]

The Los Angeles Lakers were essentially two different teams in 2022-23. The first team scuffled to a 2-10 start and was languishing near the bottom of the Western Conference standings at the midway point. The second team was one of the league’s best, going 10 games over .500 across the final 26 games of the season and reaching the Western […]

LOS ANGELES — What LeBron can do, Joker can do crazier. A 38-year-old LeBron James highlighted his 31-point first half Monday with a circus 3-pointer that wasn’t even a shot. It was an attempted pass toward the rim. So how did Nikola Jokic respond? With a pair of high-arcing, clumsy yet graceful, ugly yet acrobatic 3s with hands in his […]

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 a graduate of Michigan State University. Follow him on Twitter »  Ohm’s chat archive » LOS ANGELES […]

Carmelo Anthony announces retirement from basketball at 38 – leaving the game as the NBA’s ninth-highest points scorer of all time Carmelo Anthony, the ninth-highest scorer in the history of the NBA, has retired from basketball after 19 seasons.  The 38-year-old made his announcement on social media on Monday morning.  Anthony was a 10-time All-Star who scored 28,289 points with […]