MINNEAPOLIS — Toraya Reid, the 28-year-old sister of Timberwolves star Naz Reid, was shot and killed Saturday in New Jersey.

A New Jersey prosecutor charged Shaquille Green, whom the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said was in a relationship with Toraya, with her murder.

Green, 29, also was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon. He...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut lawmakers are weighing in on the future of the Connecticut Sun after reports that the WNBA opposes a move to Hartford or Boston, and that it made what could be considered a “low-ball” offer to the Mohegan Tribe in an effort to move the franchise elsewhere.

The Mohegan Tribe reportedly reached an agreement in ...Read more

SEATTLE — When it comes to winning, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame saved its best for last.

On Saturday night, nine new inductees — five players, one executive, one coach, one referee and one entire team — were bestowed basketball’s biggest honor. They took turns telling stories and thanking loved ones from an overflowing ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Their speeches were long enough, short enough, just right for the night. Their pitch was perfect, and most important, their themes were universal.

“Championship culture can be found not just in sports, but in all aspects of life,” Maya Moore told the crowd of 2,600 at Symphony Hall. “In our homes, our schools, our ...Read more

MIAMI — It is a prime Miami Heat drinking game, just how drunk over the course of a season one can grow as Erik Spoelstra turns some variation on “embrace the competition.”

At times, it can stand as pithy, when the opposition is far superior, as was the case in last season’s record-setting playoff-series humiliation at the hands of the ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO – With training camp less than one month away, Jonathan Kuminga and the Golden State Warriors have yet to find any resolution to their meandering free agency saga.

Kuminga has been linked to a number of contract offers from the Warriors, including a two-year, $45 million deal with a team option in the second year that was ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami Heat owner Micky Arison doesn’t make many public speeches. He prefers to remain in the background and keep the spotlight off himself.

But Arison couldn’t avoid the spotlight or a speech in front of a large audience this time, as he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the 2025 class on ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — On the biggest stage in the sport, Sue Bird delivered a lighthearted and surprisingly brief 13-minute speech before being inducted in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday.

The former Storm star began with a playful jab at her old UConn coach Geno Auriemma before thanking family, friends, former ...Read more

DENVER — Can’t we all just Melo out?

The feud between Nuggets fans and Carmelo Anthony celebrates its 15th anniversary early next year. Our favorite basketball beef’s growing facial hair now. It’s old enough to enroll in driver’s ed.

Time for the Nuggets to steer this narrative back to sanity.

Time to retire Anthony’s number. To ...Read more

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Maya Moore has been to the mountaintop of women’s basketball more than almost anyone else in the history of the sport. She’s known the euphoria of seeing confetti fall after a grueling NCAA tournament run; of battling through the best in the world to hoist a WNBA championship trophy; of hearing the national anthem play ...Read more

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Sue Bird was fitted for her orange Hall of Fame jacket, and the ring that signifies the highest peak of a long basketball hike.

On Friday night, she stepped into a ball room at Mohegan Sun to receive them.

“You can choose who is going to give you your jacket and your ring and I chose my young nieces,” Bird said. “...Read more

The Chicago Sky have suspended second-year star Angel Reese for the first half of Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Aces for comments made in an interview with the Chicago Tribune this week.

Reese offered criticism of the Sky front office and roster during a routine interview after practice Tuesday with a Sky communications staffer present....Read more

LOS ANGELES — More details are emerging about a company that allegedly paid Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard millions to circumvent the NBA’s salary cap, including that the team came close in 2021 to granting naming rights for its Inglewood arena to Aspiration Partners.

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer nearly granted naming rights to the...Read more

Caitlin Clark sat out the Indiana Fever’s first game at CFG Bank Arena in late May because of a quadriceps injury. She’ll miss Sunday’s game in Baltimore, too.

On Thursday, Clark was officially ruled out for the rest of the season, which includes Sunday’s 3 p.m. game in Baltimore against the Washington Mystics, because of a groin injury...Read more

At the heart of the uproar over allegations that Kawhi Leonard of the Los Angeles Clippers received millions in undisclosed payments from a tree-planting startup is a National Basketball Association rule that caps the total annual payroll for teams.

According to a report by Pablo Torre of the Athletic, bankruptcy documents show that the tree-...Read more

Chicago Sky star Angel Reese says she has apologized to her teammates for a Chicago Tribune article in which she criticized the organization and indicated she might eventually leave the team "if things don't pan out."

Following the Sky's 88-64 victory over the Connecticut Sun on Wednesday night, Reese was asked by a reporter about the ...Read more

SEATTLE — Throughout Sue Bird’s illustrious WNBA career, 120 players suited up for the Storm and technically she played with 113 teammates, considering she missed the 2013 and 2019 seasons because of knee injuries.

Some associations with the soon-to-be Naismith Basketball Memorial Hall of Famer were brief, such as Raina Perez who appeared ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Magic are celebrating a milestone this weekend that few NBA franchises can claim — two Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductees in the same class. For a franchise that’s spent most of its existence hovering between rebuilding and re-rebuilding, having two people connected to the franchise enshrined in ...Read more

CHICAGO — Few players are more fixated on the upcoming WNBA free agency cycle than Angel Reese.

More than 100 players will enter free agency this winter as the tumult of a two-team expansion draft and a new collective bargaining agreement promises an offseason of leaguewide upheaval. Those players include 21 of this year’s 24 All-Star ...Read more