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The NBA is “making progress” with its plans to launch an NBA Europe league next fall and has held discussions with the EuroLeague about a potential alliance, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said after Tuesday’s NBA Board of Governors meeting. Silver did not specify the nature of those discussions with the EuroLeague or guarantee that a…

NBA commissioner Adam Silver weighed in on the ongoing dispute between Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon and city officials about arena renovations on Tuesday, saying he strongly prefers an outcome that keeps the team in the city where the franchise was founded in 1970. “I want to be very direct about it: I would…

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said there were “no red flags” raised when the league vetted Mark Walter as a potential majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers last year and said Walter’s decision to sell the Lakers to a group headed by Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger was “independent” of federal investigations into Walter’s companies.…

The NFL, MLB, MLS, NBA, NHL and their players’ unions sent a letter to state gaming regulators on Tuesday, asking them to introduce regulations banning bettors who harass athletes and staff, in response to the “escalating threat” of harassment and violent threats from gamblers. “Too often, individuals who lose sports bets direct threatening and harassing…

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More than basketball fans continue getting familiar with New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson. Brunson appeared in a prerecorded video to open the 78th Emmy Awards with this year’s host, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star Mariska Hargitay. The Emmys honor the best in television programming. Brunson and Hargitay, who are friends, have become…

A prominent former NBA player is speaking out against Kawhi Leonard’s punishment as part of the league’s investigation into cap circumvention by the LA Clippers. Danilo Gallinari, a 14-year NBA veteran who played with the Clippers for the two seasons before Leonard’s arrival and was traded as part of the blockbuster deal for Paul George…

The LA Clippers and the Toronto Raptors have officially completed the blockbuster trade both two teams agreed to at the end of June, sending Kawhi Leonard back to Toronto and Brandon Ingram to LA, league and team sources told The Athletic.  The sources were granted anonymity because the official trade call had not been completed. The…

MESA, Ariz. — They showed up in high-tops, all different colors, most with laces tied, but not all. Some were tall and springy enough to dunk, others so short they could barely get the basketball to the rims at the Arizona Athletic Grounds, a complex about 40 miles from downtown Phoenix. They were budding villains,…

The NBA’s Board of Governors’ fall meeting, starting Monday in New York, comes as the league deals with a handful of very public-facing issues, not the norm for the usually strictly business group. Chief among those is the fallout from commissioner Adam Silver’s unprecedented penalties against the LA Clippers. A year-long investigation by an outside…