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

LOS ANGELES — The Clippers forcefully denied allegations detailed in a podcast published on Wednesday that a discredited global tree-planting company paid Kawhi Leonard $28 million to pad the star forward's contract and skirt the NBA salary cap.

Investigative journalist Pablo Torre of the Athletic said during "Pablo Finds Out" that he ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Cheryl Reeve expressed mock delight when informed that Paige Bueckers used her homecoming to introduce Dallas Wings teammates to the Minnesota State Fair on Sunday.

Bueckers’ social media posts showed her sampling fried food items and various offerings on a stick.

“I think it’s great,” Reeve said, smiling. “Because I ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina great Sindarius Thornwell was arrested Tuesday on a domestic violence charge, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.

The player who led the University of South Carolina men’s basketball team to the Final Four in the 2017 NCAA Tournament was charged with second-degree domestic violence in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Jared McCain’s plan is to “for sure” be ready for training camp after a meniscus injury cut his rookie season short.

“Anything can happen, but for right now, I’m on pace,” McCain said Tuesday as the 76ers and Flyers unveiled signage for the Xfinity Mobile Arena.

The Sixers’ 2024 first-round pick was one of the ...Read more

MIAMI — When Miami Heat owner Micky Arison is inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame later this week, Heat president Pat Riley will be by his side.

Along with Heat icons Alonzo Mourning and Dwyane Wade, Riley is among the presenters for Arison’s enshrinement during Saturday night’s induction ceremony for the 2025 ...Read more