Florida junior Thomas Haugh -- a projected potential lottery pick -- will return to the Gators next season, he tells me, @JeremyWoo and @jeffborzello. With the 2027 Player of the Year candidate back in the fold, Florida becomes the favorite to open next season at No. 1.
Sources: Billy Donovan decides to leave as Bulls coach - via @ESPN App www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48550436/...
he wanted to give the team a clean break, provide the ability for the organization to undergo its front office search and allow the new top basketball executive to make the next coaching hire.
BREAKING: Billy Donovan is exiting as head coach of the Chicago Bulls after six seasons, sources tell ESPN.
Hawks outscored the Knicks 28-15 in the fourth quarter, held them to just 5-for-22 from the field.
Knicks led by as much as 12 early in the fourth.
The 2025-26 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year is... Victor Wembanyama!
More award history: Wembanyama is the first ever unanimous DPOY.
San Antonio Spurs' Victor Wembanyama has won the 2025-26 NBA Defensive Player of the Year award. He is the youngest player in league history to win the award.
Sources: Nets sign coach Jordi Fernandez, staff to extensions - via @ESPN App www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48542372/...
Fernandez has pushed the Nets to competitive play amid consecutive rebuilding seasons, focusing on player development from the team's young players and career years from veterans such as Michael Porter Jr., Nic Claxton and Day'Ron Sharpe.
The Brooklyn Nets have signed head coach Jordi Fernandez and the entire coaching staff to multiyear contract extensions, sources tell ESPN. This solidifies a long-term commitment for Fernandez after two seasons at the helm.
expected to speak with the co-head of CAA's basketball division, Austin Brown, regarding the vacancy, sources said.
In the latest of Tom Dundon's cost-cutting measures, the Blazers are the only playoff team that didn't send their two-way players (who are ineligible to play in the playoffs) on the road for Games 1 and 2 this weekend.
Story: www.rosegardenreport.com/trail-blazer...
Wemby in his postseason debut: 35 PTS | 5 REB | 5 3PM
Victor Wembanyama becomes the first player in NBA history to record 35+ points and 5+ 3PM in a postseason debut
Houston Rockets' Kevin Durant will miss Game 1 against the Lakers tonight due to a right knee injury.
Joining @GMA on Day 1 of the NBA Playoffs -- Cavaliers/Raptors, Timberwolves/Nuggets, Knicks/Hawks, and up to second injury updates on the Lakers/Rockets:
upcoming season and 20% of the cap from 2027-29.
RT @kendra__andrews: BREAKING: Napheesa Collier is signing a one-year $1.4 million super max contract with the Minnesota Lynx, sources tell ESPN.
She’s the third player in the WNBA to sign a super max deal.
already know Ant isn't trippin over it AT ALL.
"He was mad he didn't get to 65, but not because he missed out on awards, he was mad because it meant he didn't get to play in all 82 - which is what he always tries to do for his teammates and fans.
"You know the only thing he wants is a ring!"
Reporting for NBA Today on the 65-game award challenges approved for Lakers star Luka Doncic and Pistons star Cade Cunningham -- and a statement from Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards' business manager on his challenge being denied:
Doncic missed 2 games in December due to the birth of his child abroad and Cunningham had a collapsed lung. Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards filed a challenge as well and his case was advanced to an independent arbitrator, but was denied and is not eligible for awards, sources said.
Just in: The NBA and NBPA have ruled in favor of Lakers' Luka Doncic and Pistons' Cade Cunningham on their Extraordinary Circumstances Challenge for the 65-game award rule, making both eligible for all 2025-26 season honors such as MVP and All-NBA teams, sources tell ESPN.
CP3 after the Clippers loss lmao
The NBA is fining Charlotte's LaMelo Ball $35,000 for his trip of Miami's Bam Adebayo and upgrading the action to a Flagrant, plus fining him $25,000 for cursing postgame, sources tell ESPN.
$60K in fines, Flagrant. No suspension.
Florida's Alex Condon – the No. 30 prospect on ESPN's Top 100 – is returning to the Gators for his senior year, he tells me and @JeremyWoo. Condon will be a projected first-rounder in 2027 and among the top big men in college basketball.
Joining NBA Today on the league reviewing LaMelo Ball's trip of Bam Adebayo in the Hornets play-in win over the Heat:
Just in on NBA Today -- Las Vegas Aces three-time champion A'ja Wilson makes WNBA history, again, signing the most lucrative contract in the league to date:
Sports Group.
