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The Houston Rockets stayed alive in their playoff series with the Los Angeles Lakers, posting a 99-93 victory Wednesday that sent the Western Conference series to Game 6 on Friday in Houston. After LeBron James banked in a shot to cut the Rockets’ lead to three in the final three minutes, Reed Sheppard reestablished control…

The Detroit Pistons kept their season alive, trimming the series deficit to 3-2 with a 116-109 win over the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night at Little Caesars Arena. Detroit is trying to avoid becoming the first No. 1 seed to fall to a No. 8 seed since 2023, when the Miami Heat stunned the Milwaukee…

Austin Reaves will return to the Los Angeles Lakers lineup tonight after missing the last four weeks with an oblique strain. The injury, which he suffered in the Lakers loss in Oklahoma City earlier this month, was believed to carry a four to six week recovery timetable. The Lakers ruled Reaves in after his pregame…

DALLAS — Cooper Flagg admitted he felt “nervous” while he was parked on his couch Monday evening waiting for the NBA Rookie of the Year award to be announced. Typically, Flagg said, he received forewarning when results of an award he was up for were made public. But not this time. “It was probably one…

Former Atlanta Hawks accounting executive Lester Jones has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for embezzling approximately $3.7 million from the team, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Georgia said in a statement Wednesday. According to the news release, Jones misappropriated funds through fraudulent expense reimbursement requests and misuse…

Steph Curry’s auction of the 70-plus pairs of shoes he wore this season as a sneaker free agent raised $1.7 million for his Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, according to a Wednesday announcement from Sotheby’s and Curry. Curry announced earlier this month that more than 70 pairs of shoes would be auctioned through Sotheby’s from April…

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, team owner Joe Lacob and general manager Mike Dunleavy met Monday and will reconvene again later next week to discuss whether Kerr will return for a 13th season as head coach, a league source told The Athletic. That same source said the conversations were “good” and “productive.” ESPN initially…

The NBA has its newest proposed solution to tanking, and unsurprisingly, it has been met with significant questions. In what is being referred to as the “3-2-1″ system,” the league presented a draft lottery reform proposal to all 30 teams on Tuesday that could go into effect for 2027 if approved. Teams that don’t qualify…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. On this date in 1970, Jerry West hit a famous 60-foot buzzer-beater in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. After Dave DeBusschere put the Knicks up by two, West was forced to heave it from beyond…

NEW YORK — As far as statement games go, that wasn’t much of a statement by the Atlanta Hawks. It was more like a whimper. The New York Knicks smashed Atlanta 126-97 in Tuesday’s Game 5 of their best-of-seven first-round playoff series to go up 3-2 and put the Hawks on the brink of elimination.…