PHILADELPHIA — Joel Embiid called Andre Drummond last summer to persuade him to return to the 76ers as a free agent. So as Drummond sat before reporters following Sunday’s loss to the Chicago Bulls to close a dreadful, injury-riddled 24-58 season, he was asked for any insight on how Embiid is feeling mentally after undergoing his latest knee...Read more

CHICAGO — Josh Giddey will play in the Chicago Bulls’ first game of the play-in tournament.

Coach Billy Donovan didn’t want to make any promises after Giddey participated fully in practice Tuesday at the Advocate Center, saying he was “optimistic” about the guard’s availability for Wednesday’s home game against the Miami Heat.

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MIAMI — Erik Spoelstra stood in the same spot off the baseline of the Miami Heat practice court that he’s stood through all the years, good and bad, and as he talked about Wednesday’s play-in game, he wasn’t sending any message to his players.

Spoelstra doesn’t need the media to be an assistant coach. So, the message he sent about the...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Sky’s top draft pick might not play in the WNBA this season — but the front office isn’t worried about the timeline of the 19-year-old Slovenian they selected at No. 10 on Monday.

General manager Jeff Pagliocca couldn’t be higher on Ajša Sivka. He didn’t expect her to be available toward the end of the first ...Read more

SEATTLE — You can’t always get what you need, but if you trade sometimes, you just might find that you get what you want.

OK, maybe that’s not quite how the lyric goes. But it might sum up the first-round pick for the Storm Monday.

See, this is a team that needed a guard after trading away Jewell Loyd this offseason. The deal ended up ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Have you ever seen anything more dismal than Sunday’s hopeless postseason news conference from 76ers president Daryl Morey?

It’s Morey’s nature to sound like a super smart Debbie Downer. Even when he’s giddy he seems a little glum.

But between the sighs and the downcast eyes Sunday evening, Morey projected a crushing ...Read more

He left his native Ivory Coast for America to pursue a dream, was unknowingly caught in a human trafficking ring, and after years of hell former TCU basketball player Souleymane Doumbia says, “It was all worth it.”

This week, his story that was chronicled on the LeBron James’ produced series, “Uninterrupted’s Real Stories of ...Read more

NEW YORK — UConn women’s basketball forward Aubrey Griffin became the 50th WNBA draftee in program history on Monday night when she was selected by the Minnesota Lynx with the No. 37 overall pick in the third round.

Griffin was the third former Husky selected in the 2025 WNBA draft, following superstar Paige Bueckers at No. 1 and point ...Read more

NEW YORK — After helping UConn to its 12th NCAA Championship in her lone season as a graduate transfer, point guard Kaitlyn Chen was selected No. 30 overall in the WNBA draft by the Golden State Valkyries on Monday night.

Chen wasn’t invited to the draft but was pulled out of the audience where she was in attendance to support Huskies ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Liberty did most of this offseason’s heavy lifting before the WNBA draft.

Last month’s trade for veteran point guard Natasha Cloud cost them a pair of first-round picks, including the No. 7 overall selection in Monday night’s draft at The Shed in Manhattan.

The defending WNBA champions had already traded away this year�...Read more

TCU standout Hailey Van Lith was selected with No. 11 pick in the first round of the WNBA draft by the Chicago Sky Monday night in New York City.

It was the perfect ending for Van Lith’s storybook season in Fort Worth, Texas. Van Lith transferred to TCU almost a year ago from LSU after just one season.

The Tigers reached the Elite Eight ...Read more

The Los Angeles Sparks entered the offseason in search of a new identity with the WNBA’s worst record. The silver lining? A shot at landing their point guard of the future in the Paige Bueckers sweepstakes.

Instead, after losing out on the No. 1 pick in the draft lottery, the Sparks set the stage for a new era of basketball in Los Angeles ...Read more

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Eight days after leading UConn women’s basketball to the its 12th NCAA Championship, superstar Paige Bueckers officially became a pro when she was selected No. 1 in the 2025 WNBA draft by the Dallas Wings on Monday night.

Bueckers is the the sixth former Husky chosen with the top overall pick and the first since Breanna ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Four games and no information? A season series that offers little roadmap for the postseason meetings to come?

It's a bit of a weird situation as the Lakers head into the playoffs against the Minnesota Timberwolves, their roster overhaul and strange December making it hard to really look to the past for information on the future...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Lynx continued to make moves heading into tonight’s WNBA draft.

The latest: The Lynx traded the 2026 first-round pick acquired from Chicago in Sunday’s deal to Washington for 6-foot guard-forward Karlie Samuelson.

The pick from Chicago was acquired in exchange for the No. 11 pick in Monday’s first round. So,...Read more

The NBA regular season is over. The season of change is just beginning.

For the league’s lottery-bound teams — and even a few who still have playoff games left to play — the final buzzer on Game 82 often sounds like a starting gun for front-office and coaching staff upheaval.

The first move came swiftly on Monday morning, when the New ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — It was a good thing for the Timberwolves that the NBA rescinded the technical foul Anthony Edwards received in Friday’s game.

As Edwards’ teammates struggled to find a groove against a tanking Utah team, Edwards put the Wolves on his back in the third quarter Sunday at Target Center and broke open what became a 116-105 win ...Read more