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CHICAGO — The Knicks will start their secondary title defense like they began their primary — against LeBron and the 76ers. The group stage of the NBA Cup kicks off for the Knicks on Friday night in Philadelphia, a rematch of the regular-season opener from 10 days prior. Advertisement The Knicks lost that matchup, 106-100, because Tyrese Maxey took off …

Sixers list Brown as questionable for meeting with Knicks originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The Sixers added Jaylen Brown to their injury report Thursday night ahead of a second matchup with the defending champion Knicks. Advertisement The team listed Brown as questionable with left knee soreness for Friday night’s contest at Xfinity Mobile Arena. The game will be the …

The Atlanta Hawks’ third home game of the season at State Farm Arena initially drew attention for forcing the Atlanta Dream to move Game 6 of the WNBA Finals earlier on Thursday to a 12:30 p.m. ET start. Thankfully for Atlanta and the fans who rearranged their plans on short notice to attend a daytime game, the Dream won 80-69 …

It hasn’t been the start to the season that the Utah Jazz were hoping for. Let that be my late submission for Understatement of the Year, as the upstart Jazz have not only lost four of their first five games (their lone victory a one-point stand against a New Orleans team that remains winless at the time I’m writing this …

The Cleveland Cavaliers weren’t able to extend their win streak to four games, falling short to the Atlanta Hawks 111-114. James Harden and Donovan Mitchell were able to find their spots to score 46 points combined, but it was not enough as the Hawks kept the Cavaliers at arm’s length throughout their many comeback attempts in the fourth quarter. Advertisement …

What Ben Simmons told Steve Kerr, Steph Curry after Warriors passed on him originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Ben Simmons won’t appear in a game for the Kings this NBA season, but he still managed to deliver some good-natured trash talk to one of their Western Conference rivals. Advertisement Simmons revealed his preseason exchanges with Golden State Warriors …

Austin Reaves didn’t know what to think of Luka Dončić when he first met him. After the Mavericks stunningly traded Dončić to the Lakers in February 2025, the Slovenian superstar mostly kept to himself. Advertisement Reaves acknowledged he didn’t even think they would become friends. “I wasn’t joking,” Reaves told the California Post in an exclusive interview. “There were times …

Halloween weekend is often synonymous with candy, costumes, scary movies and haunted houses. Well, this year the only thing that matters is THE MARCH TO THE NBA CUP BEGINNING. That’s right, the NBA’s convoluted, definitely not confusing Cup is once again up for grabs. The group stage begins in earnest on Friday evening, with the Mavericks and Rockets kicking off …

JJ Redick foreshadowed a night like Wednesday evening. Throughout preseason and the regular season, he stressed that every player on the Lakers’ roster would get an opportunity to play, even if they weren’t a regular part of the Day 1 rotation. Jarred Vanderbilt finally got his shot in the Lakers’ rotation during Wednesday’s win over the Clippers. NBAE via Getty …

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – OCTOBER 25: Ja'kobe Walter #14 of the Toronto Raptors looks on against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second quarter during the home opener at Target Center on October 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Timberwolves defeated the Raptors 117-94. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is …

Yaxel Lendeborg isn’t your typical rookie. He’s fearless. He’s willing to speak his mind about the NBA’s best offensive player, knowing full well the consequences that entails. And mark my words: There will be consequences after he lit into Luka Doncic, saying he “lost all respect for him” after the Lakers hosted the Warriors in their season opener on Oct. …

In his NBA debut last week, rookie Yaxel Lendeborg did not shy away from locking horns with Luka Dončić as they exchanged some words during the Los Angeles Lakers’ rout of the Golden State Warriors on Oct. 21. Dončić and Lendeborg will clash again Friday night when the Lakers roll into Chase Center for each team’s opening game of NBA …

Forget the player participation policy, there’s an NBA Cup to respect. The Sixers released their injury report for their first leg of their second back-to-back of the season, and the only starter listed on it is Jaylen Brown, who is questionable with left knee soreness. That’s an unwelcome surprise, but it at least means LeBron James and Joel Embiid will …

Last December, the New York Knicks defeated an overwhelmed-looking young San Antonio Spurs team to win the NBA Cup. Sound familiar? It foreshadowed what would happen in June, when the Knicks won their first title in 53 years. Now the NBA Cup is back starting Friday night, Oct. 30, so which teams are going to make a run and stake …

Anthony Edwards had successful surgery on his right knee, the Minnesota Timberwolves announced on Thursday, Oct. 29. The arthroscopic procedure for debridement, which is to remove thickened or dead tissue, was performed on the same day by Dr. Craig Bennett at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The team said the four-time All-Star “is expected to make a full recovery.” …

The Charlotte Hornets announced on Thursday that forward Kon Knueppel has been assigned to the team’s G League affiliate in Greensboro, North Carolina for Thursday’s practice. Though Knueppel is still listed as out for Friday’s matchup at the Washington Wizards, being assigned to practice with the Greensboro Storm is an encouraging sign that the second-year sharpshooter is nearing a return …

The Brooklyn Nets officially locked in all five players from their 2025 draft class, exercising third-year team options on Egor Dëmin, Drake Powell, Ben Saraf, Nolan Traore, Danny Wolf. The moves which were expected, were announced Thursday afternoon. Brooklyn made NBA history in June 2025 by becoming the first franchise ever to select five players in the first round. It …

With the Suns not off to a good start and reports from the locker room that frustration over a certain role has grown, things haven’t looked great for Phoenix so far. That said, it is still early in the year, and last season this team took early losses and still made the playoffs. Anything can happen, and this team could …

An hour and a half before the Lakers started their win over the Clippers at Intuit Dome, the team officially added a player to its roster to hopefully address its glaring big-man problem. And it sounds like JJ Redick will have some homework to do coming out of the back-to-back set on the latest addition. Lakers coach JJ Redick had …

Collin Sexton comes across as polite and understated. … Until you watch him play. The 27-year-old guard transforms from someone who speaks in hushed tones and politely nods in the locker room into someone who more closely resembles a rabid animal when he’s on the court. Los Angeles Clippers guard Cam Christie, left, tries to get past Los Angeles Lakers …

Across the first four games of the regular season, Jarred Vanderbilt found himself entirely outside of the Los Angeles Lakers’ rotation, with head coach JJ Redick opting for Sandro Mamukelashvili and Kevon Looney as his backup big men behind Walker Kessler. But Looney struggled mightily in those appearances. His insufficient scoring and passing were stunting the offense while his lack …

“Yak is our starter. We’re number one defence in the league at this time, and he, Yak, has a lot to do with that.” This is the stance of Raptors coach Darko Rajaković after the Toronto team’s first four games in the season. In them, Jakob Poeltl, that Raptors’ starting centre, has averaged three points, four and a half rebounds, …

The Knicks are planning to decline former first-round pick Pacome Dadiet‘s fourth-year option, SNY’s NBA Insider Ian Begley confirms. New York’s move will make Dadiet an unrestricted free agent next June and create salary space heading into the 2027-28 season. Advertisement Dadiet, who was selected 25th overall in the 2024 NBA Draft, has been unable to carve out playing time …

It’s not even Halloween, the NBA season is barely a week old, but the injury report already looks like something you’d expect to read in April. Here in Mexico City, I can relate. You can feel Día de Muertos in the air, both figuratively and literally. We’re just days — hours, if you push it — away from one of …

Last night, the Hawks were looking to end their back-to-back losses to the Houston Rockets and extend the offensive funk for the Miami Heat, who hadn’t won a game heading into the matchup. Rather than reclaiming a winning record however, the Hawks became the Heat’s first win of the season and fell to 2-3, with all three losses coming one …