Remember at the beginning of this NBA season when people compared Cooper Flagg to Andrei Kirilenko, aka AK-47? Kirilenko was a defensive athletic star and many people thought that’s where Flagg would end up. Advertisement Well, not so much. He is an excellent defender, as promised, but he has also become an offensive star. In…
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd was ejected after just one technical foul and forward Naji Marshall was ejected moments later from the bench after receiving his second caution Friday night in a game against Orlando. The sequence came early in the fourth quarter against the Magic, with the Mavericks trailing by more…
Lionel Messi was on the verge of another scoring milestone as Inter Miami claimed its second victory of the Major League Soccer season with a 2-1 victory over DC United on Saturday. Messi, who scored twice in Miami’s Florida derby victory over Orlando last week, scored his third goal of the season with a deft…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Olivier-Maxence Prosper scored 23 points, GG Jackson added 20 and the Memphis Grizzlies staged a second-half comeback to beat the Utah Jazz 123-114 on Friday night. The Grizzlies trailed by 14 points in the first half, but a strong third quarter led to a 21-6 run and a 10-point lead for…
ESPN analyst and former NBA player Kendrick Perkins criticized the Indiana Pacers and Utah Jazz after they were fined for sinking on NBA Today. “I wish (NBA Commissioner) Adam Silver had fined them $5 million for disrespecting the game of basketball,” Perkins said of fining the Jazz $500,000 and the Pacers $100,000 for “prioritizing draft…
He was never the top topic among Memphis Grizzlies trade talks, not with the ongoing saga surrounding Ja Morant taking up oxygen and airtime. But it was notable, if you paid attention, that Jaren Jackson Jr.’s name kept popping up here and there: that smart teams were “registering interest” in him; that smart analysts were…
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (AP) – Former Alabama player Charles Bediako, who has spent the past two and a half years competing in the NBA Summer League and G League, had his college eligibility temporarily restored Wednesday by a judge who prevented the NCAA from retaliating for his return to the 17th-ranked Tide. Bediako had signed several…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 31 points with six 3-pointers and the Golden State Warriors welcomed back their regulars Saturday to beat the Utah Jazz 123-114 after a 37-point blowout by the shorthanded Thunder a night earlier. Curry scored 20 points in the third quarter on six of his seven shots, hitting a…
Recently, the US women’s team has become accustomed to scoring early. The same thing happened Friday when the United States defeated Italy 3-0 in a cold Inter&Co Stadium in Orlando, Florida. A ball from Rose Lavelle to Olivia Moultrie produced the first goal in the second minute against Italy, a team the United States had…
