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NBA restart: Rosters, schedules and standings projections for every team

With scrimmages tipping off Wednesday, here’s our breakdown of every team in Orlando, Florida, including: current seed and most likely playoff seeds (via simulations using ESPN’s Basketball Power Index), remaining strength of schedule (ranked from hardest to easiest), seeding-game schedules (with win projections using BPI), full rosters and projected rotations. We’ve also included the number […]

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Brett Brown says Ben Simmons underwent 3-pointer ‘paradigm shift’

Simmons didn’t waste any time proving his coach was right. Playing at a new position — power forward — as part of Philadelphia’s new-look starting lineup in the team’s opening action from the NBA’s bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort, Simmons took two 3-pointers, and made one, in a 90-83 scrimmage victory over the […]

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Season’s impact on future salary caps central to NFL talks, sources say; NFLPA reps to talk Friday

NFL Players Association team player representatives are scheduled to convene on a conference call Friday morning as the players work to finalize an agreement with team owners on the rules and finances of the 2020 NFL season, according to sources. The sources said the two sides were still negotiating Thursday night on at least three […]

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NBA players use media availability to steer conversation toward Breonna Taylor, social justice

Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma spoke to the media for 6½ minutes Wednesday — addressing some reporters in person in Orlando, Florida, while others logged in on Zoom — and was asked 10 questions. Only one of the questions was geared toward social justice, and not long after the session finished, Kuzma asked media […]

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Go inside the NBA bubble with Los Angeles Lakers’ Javale McGee’s video series

Inside the NBA bubble at Walt Disney World, while preparing to restart the season and tune up for the playoffs during the coronavirus pandemic, some players have a lot of time on their hands. That includes Los Angeles Lakers center JaVale McGee and Philadelphia 76ers guard Matisse Thybulle. We’ve already seen players fishing and chugging […]

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NBA’s 13 most fascinating lineups to watch in Orlando

Here are 13 new or newish lineups I’m excited to watch when the games start. Shake Milton (!), Josh Richardson, Ben Simmons, Tobias Harris, Joel Embiid: 0 minutes. Just when I think I’m out, the Sixers — my preseason pick to make the NBA Finals, my siren song — pull me back in. Philly experimented […]

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Patrick Mahomes golfing, beer chugging in the NBA bubble, Joe Burrow gets a street and what you missed this weekend

Here’s what you might have missed over the weekend … Things are happening. NBA players are in the bubble. Baseball players are in Spring Training 2.0. There are 17 days until the first NBA games and 10 days until MLB’s Opening Day. We’re close. Let’s not jinx anything. We’re so close now. But first, we’ve […]

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2019-20 fantasy basketball awards: Is Harden the unanimous MVP?

Still, champions have been dubbed on this shortened campaign and we still have season-ending awards to dole out. Who reigns supreme as the fantasy MVP? How about this season’s biggest bust, biggest surprise and top rookie? Our experts cast their votes and break down the most fun fantasy player to roster, the player they’ll never […]

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Sports Academy retires ‘Mamba’ name out of respect to Kobe Bryant

The Mamba Sports Academy was launched in 2018 as a joint athletic-training business venture with Bryant and Sports Academy CEO Chad Faulkner. The name was changed back to the Sports Academy on Tuesday, with a new website and logo rebranding. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among nine people who died in a helicopter […]

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