Basketball Page 106 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Cade Cunningham's all-around effort lifts Pistons over Raptors
Cade Cunningham scored 18 of his 28 points in the second quarter Wednesday night and the visiting Detroit Pistons defeated the Toronto Raptors 113-95.,Cunningham, who hit 6 of 11 3-point attempts, added seven rebounds, nine assists and three steals for the Pistons, who have won three straight and ei...
Jose Alvarado hits 8 3-pointers as Knicks crush 76ers
Jose Alvarado made eight 3-pointers and scored a season-high 26 points as the visiting New York Knicks rolled to a 138-89 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday in both teams' final game before the All-Star break.,Mikal Bridges added 22 points for New York, which led by as many as 52 in cl...
Payton Pritchard, Celtics extend Bulls' woes with runaway win
Payton Pritchard came off the bench to score a game-high 26 points and Nikola Vucevic added 19 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Boston Celtics to a 124-105 victory over the visiting Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night.,Vucevic was traded to Boston last week in a deal that sent Anfernee Simons from th...
Bucks punish missed dunk, top Magic in final minutes
Cam Thomas scored 34 points off the bench as the visiting Milwaukee Bucks snapped the Orlando Magic's three-game winning streak with a 116-108 victory on Wednesday.,Thomas hit 4 of 6 from 3-point range in just 25 minutes. Kevin Porter Jr. paired 18 points with 11 assists, Ousmane Dieng contributed 1...
Hornets hold off Hawks' late comeback attempt
Brandon Miller scored 31 points and the short-handed Charlotte Hornets defeated the visiting Atlanta Hawks 110-107 on Wednesday night in the final game for both teams prior to the All-Star break.,LaMelo Ball provided 24 points and six assists as the Hornets won for the 10th time in 11 games.,Charlot...
Cavaliers thump Wizards behind Sam Merrill's career high
Sam Merrill scored a career-high 32 points and made nine 3-pointers, and Donovan Mitchell had 30 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers led from wire to wire in a 138-113 victory over the visiting Washington Wizards on Wednesday night.,James Harden posted 13 points and 11 assists in his home debut for Cl...
Lakers chase bounce-back vs. slumping Mavericks
After taking the court with a skeleton crew Tuesday, the Los Angeles Lakers will aim to assemble a more competitive lineup when they host the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday.,Both teams will be playing their final game before the extended All-Star break.,The Lakers were essentially missing all of their...
F Jeremy Sochan waived by Spurs, becomes free agent
The San Antonio Spurs waived Jeremy Sochan on Wednesday to permit the 22-year-old power forward to seek a fresh start as a free agent.,A frequent starter in past seasons, Sochan slipped out of coach Mitch Johnson's rotation and played a grand total of eight minutes over the Spurs' last dozen games.,...
Blake Griffin, Doc Rivers among Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame finalists
First-time candidates Blake Griffin and Candace Parker, as well as returning candidate Doc Rivers, are among the 21 finalists for election to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the 2026 class.,The organization announced its list of finalists, reduced from a larger candidate pool, on Wed...
NBA fines Hawks' Mouhamed Gueye, Wolves' Naz Reid $35K for altercation
The NBA fined the Atlanta Hawks' Mouhamed Gueye and the Minnesota Timberwolves' Naz Reid $35,000 each on Wednesday for their roles in an on-court altercation during Minnesota's 138-116 victory on Monday in Minneapolis.,The Timberwolves were leading 106-97 when Gueye, a third-year forward, committed ...
Knicks F OG Anunoby (toe) out vs. 76ers
New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby will sit out his fourth consecutive game Wednesday when he misses his team's contest versus the host Philadelphia 76ers.,Anunoby, 28, is sidelined by a toenail avulsion on his right foot, per NBA injury report. ,He is averaging 16.6 points and 5.5 rebounds in 41 ga...
Angel Reese returning to Unrivaled's Rose BC for remainder of season
WNBA star Angel Reese is returning to Unrivaled for the stretch run of the 3-on-3 league's second season.,Reese again will play for Rose BC, which won Unrivaled's championship title in the Miami-based league's inaugural season. She will play the final three games of the regular season, starting with...
Pistons' Isaiah Stewart banned 7 games, 3 others punished after brawl
Detroit Pistons forward-center Isaiah Stewart was suspended seven games by the NBA on Wednesday for leaving the bench area, aggressively entering an on-court altercation and fighting.,Per the league, the length of Stewart's suspensions is based, in part, on his repeated history of unsportsmanlike ac...
Fired-up Victor Wembanyama, Spurs face undermanned Warriors
Victor Wembanyama will make a second attempt at his first-ever NBA win in San Francisco when the San Antonio Spurs visit the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night.,Shortly after having been proclaimed a serious NBA Most Valuable Player candidate this season, Wembanyama exploded for 37 first-half ...
Thunder, with healthier Jalen Williams, visit Suns before break
The Phoenix Suns built a 31-point lead while beating Dallas to break a three-game home losing streak on Tuesday. ,Now a stiffer test awaits.,The Suns' final game before the All-Star break will present a bigger challenge as the Oklahoma City Thunder visit in the second of a back-to-back Wednesday.,Th...
Rockets focus on slowing Kawhi Leonard again in rematch vs. Clippers
The memory of Los Angeles All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard scoring at his leisure during a late-December matchup remained front and center for the Houston Rockets as they prepared for the first game of a home back-to-back against the visiting Clippers on Tuesday.,Leonard scored 41 points in that 20-po...
Knicks travel to Philadelphia for quick change to shake off rough loss
Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks absorbed a disappointing loss Tuesday, but they certainly don't have time to sulk.,The Knicks are back on the court Wednesday as they travel south for a matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers.,Brunson scored 40 points Tuesday in a 137-134 home loss to the Indiana P...
Pacers, facing Nets, chase N.Y. sweep after wild win over Knicks
The Indiana Pacers are experiencing a trying season while Tyrese Haliburton recovers from a torn Achilles tendon, yet they are occasionally showing traits of the team that reached Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals.,One instance occurred on Tuesday when the Pacers played one of the wilder games in the NB...
NBA roundup: Pacers pull out OT upset of Knicks
Quenton Jackson scored seven points in overtime Tuesday night for the visiting Indiana Pacers, who outlasted the New York Knicks 137-134 in a back-and-forth clash.,The two teams combined for 39 lead changes, the most in the NBA this season. Jackson finished with 19 points and was one of eight player...
Victor Wembanyama's 25-point quarter sparks Spurs' rout of Lakers
Victor Wembanyama scored 37 of his 40 points in the first half, Carter Bryant added a career-high 16 points off the bench and the visiting San Antonio Spurs turned a fast start into a dominating 135-108 victory over the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday.,Wembanyama put up 25 points in the f...