Bucks rule out Antetokounmpo with neck soreness

The Mavs acquired Kyrie Irving before the trade deadline to pair with NBA leading scorer Luka Doncic for their playoff push. The NBA season resumes on Thursday after an action-packed All-Star weekend in Salt Lake City. Here’s how the Western Conference playoff picture stands with the Play-In Tournament less than two months away. In the…

Want to get the Starting 5 delivered to you each day? Tap here.  When the NY Knicks & Toronto Huskies on this day in 1946, tipping off a brand-new league …  Who could have ever predicted that, 77 years later, we’d get a sequence like this KD x Wemby one? ⬇️ THE TIP ⏰ KD…

Here’s a look at some of our can’t-miss matchups for the week: * * * 1. LeBron James vs. James Harden Saturday, Jan. 18 (8:30 ET, ABC) Last regular season meeting: Feb. 21, 2019 In a Kia MVP race that changes day by day and performance by performance, what transpires in this game is sure…

Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons have anchored the Sixers’ swirling lineups. Unless you have LeBron James and Anthony Davis on your team and dominating in the paint, shooting is critical. Heck, even if you have James and Davis, it helps to have some guys who who can space the floor and knock it down from…

In this special episode of NBA Flashback, we go back to March 2, 1962 and relive the night Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a win over the New York Knicks in Hershey, Pa. This week’s guest is Gary Pomerantz, a Stanford lecturer and author of “Wilt – 1962.” Pomerantz talks about that mythical night…

Happy Friday! We are 30% through the 2019-20 NBA season. Here are some things of note as we head into the Week 8 weekend. Westbrook’s shot Russell Westbrook’s jump shot remains broken. On shots from outside the paint this season, Westbrook has a field goal percentage of 29.4% and an effective field goal percentage of…