CHICAGO (AP) — Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu is active for their game against the Chicago Bulls after being sidelined by a left calf injury.
Coach Terry Stotts says Aminu will be restricted to around 20 minutes Monday night “depending on how it goes.”
Aminu started the first eight games of the season before he got hurt Nov. 8 against Phoenix. He is averaging 6.4 points and 6.6 rebounds.
Sam Amick of USA Today and John Schuhmann join me to help break down each team in the Western Conference as we analyze Schuhmann’s mid-summer Power Rankings. Which team is the biggest threat to Golden State? How much can LeBron James help the Lakers? Are the Jazz ready to become elite? We discuss these storylines…
Paul George has scored at least 25 points in eight straight games entering Saturday. Game 4: Suns at Clippers 9 p.m. ET, ESPN | Suns lead 2-1 • For the third straight series, the Clippers won Game 3 after falling behind 0-2 in the series. With a combined 50 points from Paul George (27) and…
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia 76ers General Manager Elton Brand announced today that the team and Ben Simmons have agreed to a contract extension. The new contract extends Simmons through the 2024-25 campaign. “Ben Simmons is an important piece of our core and he is one of the NBA’s most dynamic and talented young players,” Brand said….
It took them a game-and-a-half. The Philadelphia 76ers got booed off the floor in their own building in Game 1 on Saturday. They were up just one point at halftime of Game 2, fortunate that Joel Embiid didn’t get ejected late in the second quarter for a violent elbow to the head of Jarrett Allen….
Doc Rivers will be leading the Sixers in 2020-21. Cramming an NBA offseason into slightly more than two months has been wild, kinda giddy and challenging for all the players, coaches and front offices involved. But none more so than the nine teams with new head coaches for 2020-21. Nearly a third of the league’s…
NEW YORK — Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens and his staff will coach the Eastern Conference All-Stars in the 2017 NBA All-Star Game, which will be played on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 8 p.m. ET at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. Stevens earns the honor for the first time in his four seasons…
