NBA NEWS AND RESULTS

LeBron James praised teammate Anthony Davis’ desire to come to the Los Angeles Lakers and his acceptance of the pressure to win a championship that coincides with that.

The NBA world was left stunned when the Los Angeles Clippers crashed out of the Western Conference semifinals after blowing a 3-1 series lead over the Denver Nuggets.

The NBA’s comeback kids couldn’t get over the line on Monday (AEST) as the Denver Nuggets dropped into a 2-0 series hole against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals.

Montrezl Harrell has some time on his hands after the Los Angeles Clippers crashed out of the NBA semi-finals.

The Boston Celtics hit back on Saturday, leading wire-to-wire in a 117-106 victory over the Miami Heat that cut the gap in the NBA Eastern Conference finals to two games to one.

Former NBA player Ty Lawson has been banned from the Chinese Basketball Association after allegedly making derogatory and offensive Instagram posts regarding Chinese women, according to multiple reports.

LeBron James said he was “p***ed off” to be overlooked as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) as Milwaukee star Giannis Antetokounmpo claimed the award for a second straight season.

The LA Lakers were locked in a close battle with the Denver Nuggets in the first quarter of game one of the Western Conference Finals.

The Celtics blew their second straight second-half lead in a 106-101 loss to the Miami Heat on Thursday night as Boston fell behind 0-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo says he’ll treasure his second straight NBA Most Valuable Player award and redouble his efforts to capture a league crown.

The Boston Celtics blew yet another double-digit second-half lead to fall 2-0 behind in the Eastern Conference final to a relentless Miami Heat outfit on Friday morning (AEST).

LeBron James is the best player left in the NBA bubble.

With the debut of Kevin Durant and the return of Kyrie Irving, the Nets will be one of the NBA’s most talented teams next season.

It must be nice to wake up to $26 million more than you thought you had.

A lack of chemistry between key players has been blamed as one of the reasons for the LA Clippers’ untimely exit from the Western Conference playoffs at the hands of the Denver Nuggets.

Australian NBA star Joe Ingles has revealed he will most likely only play for a Melbourne team if he returns to the NBL when his Utah Jazz contract finishes in two seasons.

The story was already written at the start of the season.

For the second time this playoffs, the Denver Nuggets have come back from 3-1 down to win a series.

Bam Adebayo made a clutch block with 2.5 seconds left in overtime as the Miami Heat beat the Boston Celtics 117-114 in the opening game of their Eastern Conference final on Tuesday.

Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry told Giannis Antetokounmpo over a three-hour lunch meeting Friday the organization is willing to spend into the luxury tax to surround the reigning MVP with championship-caliber pieces, according to ESPN.com.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva on Monday challenged NBA star LeBron James to match and double the reward money being offered for information on the gunman who ambushed and shot two deputies over the weekend.

Lakers guard Rajon Rondo has been known to talk a little trash. But Saturday night it was his brother William that got ejected from Los Angeles’ Game 5 win over Houston following a verbal altercation with Rockets star Russell Westbrook.

A day after intimating he wanted to come back to Houston, Mike D’Antoni told Rockets ownership he’s becoming a free agent and won’t return.

The Denver Nuggets just don’t know when to quit.

The Denver Nuggets just don’t know when to quit.

After losing the first game of the Western Conference semi-finals, the Lakers have surged back to win four straight games and knock out the Houston Rockets 119-96.

Defending NBA champions Toronto Raptors won’t hold on to their maiden title in 2020 after falling to Boston by five points in game seven of the Eastern Conference semi-finals.

Jamal Murray sparked a fourth-quarter rally and rookie Michael Porter made several clutch plays down the stretch as the Denver Nuggets stayed alive with a 111-105 upset of the Los Angeles Clippers.

After watching their cross-town rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers, put on a defensive masterclass against the Denver Nuggets to take a 3-1 series lead on Thursday (AEST), LeBron James and his Lakers decided to turn it on against the Houston Rockets.

Sometimes it’s better to just say nothing at all.

The Houston Rockets may be without forward Danuel House Jr. for the remainder of the Western Conference semi-finals as the NBA looks into an allegation that he allowed a female COVID-19 testing official into his hotel room, Yahoo Sports reported Thursday.

The Denver Nuggets are running out of steam, and the Los Angeles Clippers are just getting going.

Not so fast.

Giannis Antetokounmpo has said all the right things, if you’re a Milwaukee Bucks fan, in the aftermath of his team’s second-round exit at the hands of the Miami Heat.

Giannis Antetokounmpo may have just disappointed the rest of the NBA teams looking for a franchise-changing superstar.

Like it or not, it’s time to have that chat.

Warning to the rest of the NBA - playoff LeBron James is well and truly activated.

The Milwaukee Bucks may have avoided a shock series sweep but the damage was already done as they crashed out of the playoffs with a 103-94 loss to the Miami Heat.

Ben Simmons has been acknowledged for maybe his most under-appreciated strength as the Australian was named to the 2019-20 NBA All-Defensive First Team on Wednesday (AEST).

Nikola Jokic was supposed to be questionable with a sprained right wrist.

A disjointed first-half effort sealed Toronto’s fate as they fell to a 111-89 loss to Boston in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference semi-finals series.

While the LA Lakers dynamic duo of LeBron James and Anthony Davis exploded in Game 2, one half of Houston Rocket’s own superstar pairing of Russell Westbrook and James Harden suffered a woeful outing – and it could have a big impact in the rest of the series.

The Los Angeles Lakers have withstood a late fightback from the Houston Rockets to tie their Western Conference semi-finals series with a 117-109 win.

Milwaukee’s title ambitions are still alive after a tense 118-115 overtime win over Miami in Game 4 of their second round series.

The Denver Nuggets bounced back with a vengeance on Saturday, powering to a 110-101 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers to even their NBA playoff series 1-1.

The Los Angeles Lakers have been thumped by the Houston Rockets in Game 1 of their semi-final Western Conference series.

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith wasn’t on board with the Brooklyn Nets’ shock hiring of former two-time MVP Steve Nash as their new head coach.

It was branded a nightmare matchup for the Los Angeles Lakers and one game in, it is good signs for the Houston Rockets with a 112-97 win.

Jimmy Butler powered the Miami Heat to a 115-100 victory over Milwaukee on Friday that pushed the top-seeded Bucks to the brink of elimination in the NBA playoffs.

OG Anunoby drained a buzzer-beating three-pointer as the Toronto Raptors resuscitated their NBA title defense Thursday with a 104-103 victory over the Boston Celtics.

Stephen A. Smith, ESPN’s controversial talking head and hot take artist, of course had an opinion on the Nets’ hiring of Steve Nash, the Hall of Fame point guard.

LeBron James doesn’t like being compared to Scottie Pippen — to put it mildly.

It was ugly, but the Houston Rockets are moving on to face the Los Angeles Lakers in the next round of the Western Conference playoffs.

The Miami Heat are 6-0 in the NBA Playoffs, and now 2-0 up on the No. 1 seed Milwaukee Bucks as they continue to make their case as the dark horse of the Orlando bubble.

The NBA narrowly avoided one of the most controversial endings in playoff history in the bizarre closing seconds of the Jazz-Nuggets series.

Dirk Nowitzki spent 21 seasons with the Dallas Mavericks.

The thing to keep at the front of your mind, if you are a Nets fan, are the 20 games Kyrie Irving played this year. It was an all-too-brief sample, an all-too-fleeting taste, but those 20 games need to stay prominent because they remind you of all he can be, and all the Nets can be, especially once Kevin Durant joins the party.

It was fitting that after seven-straight games lighting up our screens with the most incredible one-on-one duel of the NBA playoffs, the series between the Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz would end with Donovan Mitchell and Jamal Murray embracing.

Jayson Tatum scored a career playoff high 34 points and Marcus Smart drained five three pointers in the fourth quarter as the Boston Celtics rallied to beat Toronto 102-99 in game two of their Eastern Conference series.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is the 2019-20 NBA Defensive Player of the Year.

After Miami Heat’s 115-104 win over the Milwaukee Bucks, Joel Embiid tweeted just one word.

In Washington DC in the 1980s, crossing drug kingpin Rayful Edmond didn’t usually end well.

Luka Doncic is good.

Marcus Morris got the last word — even if it was on Instagram.

Game 7, baby.

At this point, it’s probably safe to assume Marcus Morris Sr. will not be getting a Christmas card from Luka Doncic.

LeBron James described 2020 as the worst year of his life, with the Los Angeles Lakers superstar losing two of his heroes just seven months apart.

The Milwaukee Bucks powered into the second round of the NBA playoffs, three days after their refusal to take the court in the wake of a police shooting in Wisconsin brought the post-season to a halt.

The NBA playoffs returned Saturday (local time) following a three-day hiatus, though that may not have been the case if not for former President Barack Obama.

Cliff Robinson, a former star at the university of Connecticut who played 18 seasons in the NBA, died at the age of 53, his alma mater announced Saturday.

With the NBA season hanging by a thread, LeBron James was put on the spot.

NBA playoff games will resume on Sunday after the league and players agreed Friday on plans for greater social justice and racial equality measures following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

NBA players have voted to resume the post-season, a day after a boycott by the Milwaukee Bucks forced the league to halt the playoffs and left the campaign hanging in the balance.

Donald Trump has branded the NBA a “political organisation” while criticising the recent boycotts following the shooting of Jacob Blake.

On Tuesday [AEST] after Milwaukee’s win over the Orlando Magic, Bucks guard George Hill was in no mood to celebrate.

Australia’s most successful basketballer Lauren Jackson has backed the NBA and WNBA’s stance on boycotting games to make a political statement about racial injustice in the United States.

NBA legend Kenny Smith walked off the NBA on TNT set on Thursday (AEST) in the wake of the league being rocked by a player strike and protest.

The Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers have voted to boycott the rest of the NBA season after an emergency meeting was called in Orlando following the Milwaukee Bucks’ refusal to take the court for a play-off game.

The WTA Western & Southern Open has entered a one-day pause after world No.10 Naomi Osaka withdrew from her semi-final match in New York to protest the police shooting of an unarmed black man in Wisconsin.

Three NBA playoffs games are set to be boycotted after players took a stand in a stunning protest against police brutality.

One of the more extraordinary talking points in this NBA Playoffs series has been the disappearance of Paul George’s alter ego.

The Sixers are in the middle of a dramatic upheaval which has already resulted in the sacking of head coach Brett Brown with the promise of more changes to come.

NBA players haven’t ruled out standing out of playoff games in response to the tragic police shooting of a black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

This is what LeBron James would have missed had he instituted his typical social media blackout during the NBA playoffs.

The Los Angeles Lakers are bursting some bubbles in Orlando.

The Philadelphia 76ers have taken the first step in a planned “upheaval”, firing Brett Brown as head coach after seven seasons in charge.

Ben Simmons’ Philadelphia 76ers suffered the ignominy of being the first team knocked out of this year’s NBA playoffs, swept 4-0 by the Boston Celtics.

Luka Doncic just keeps doing things that make no sense for a 21-year-old.

The Philadelphia 76ers became the first team to be eliminated from the NBA Playoffs after being swept, 4-0, by the Boston Celtics.

The Milwaukee Bucks looked more like the team with the best record in the NBA on Saturday as they rolled to a 121-107 victory over Orlando to take a 2-1 lead in their playoff series.

Joel Embiid was the only reason the Philadelphia 76ers were in the contest late in Game 3 against the Boston Celtics.

NBA star LeBron James hit back at a deceptive digital ad campaign raising fears over US mail-in voting that is using his image and words out of context.

NBA star LeBron James hit back at a deceptive digital ad campaign raising fears over US mail-in voting that is using his image and words out of context.

Try as they might, but the Philadelphia 76ers barely stand a chance of progressing in the NBA Playoffs without All-Star Aussie point guard Ben Simmons.

The Los Angeles Lakers bounced back from an opening upset against the Portland Trail Blazers to secure a convincing victory in the NBA playoffs.

The 2020 NBA Draft Lottery has left the New York Knicks in trouble, given the Golden State Warriors a huge leg-up and hurt the Cleveland Cavaliers’ hopes of luring over Simmons.

The basketball gods really do hate the New York Knicks.

Joe Ingles is on track to shatter his previous best statistics in the NBA playoffs after starring in the opening two postseason games for the Utah Jazz.

The NBA has downplayed Thursday’s first-ever virtual draft lottery since it won’t have all the bells, whistles and the usual full transparency because of COVID-19 safety measures.

Joel Embiid did as much as he could but even 34 points and 10 rebounds couldn’t save the Philadelphia 76ers from a 128-101 loss to the Boston Celtics.