Showing 61 - 75 of 158 articles tagged "NBA"

• Posted Thursday 7/30/20 at 6:54PM EDT

  Shaquille O'Neal was roasted on air for showing up late to Inside the NBA's first restart show

  O'Neal blamed traffic for his first appearance on Inside the NBA's new social distanced set 10 minutes late.

• Posted Wednesday 7/29/20 at 3:55AM EDT

  Why sports is having trouble restarting in the United States: Americans didn't want to do the work

  "We were given a job to do if we wanted our games back, a very simple job, and we couldn’t...

• Posted Saturday 7/25/20 at 2:56AM EDT

  NBA games from the Orlando bubble will feature fans appearing virtually via 17-foot video boards surrounding the court

  "Fans won’t be able to watch NBA games court-side thanks to the coronavirus, but the league hopes to fill their...

• Posted Saturday 7/25/20 at 2:56AM EDT

  The pandemic is turning sports into video games

  "How do you 'take me out with the crowd' when there's a global pandemic? By filling the stadium with people...

• Posted Wednesday 7/22/20 at 7:39PM EDT

  Issa Rae is starring in ad campaign promoting the NBA's return

  Watch the Insecure star in the "It's a Whole New Game" commercial promoting the NBA restarting its season.

• Posted Friday 7/17/20 at 1:28AM EDT

  ESPN's Rachel Nichols was secretly recorded in her hotel room in the NBA bubble in Orlando

  An ESPN employee likely took advantage of the video setup that Nichols uses in her hotel room to remotely tape...

• Posted Monday 7/13/20 at 11:06AM EDT

  ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski suspended two weeks for "F*ck you" email to a U.S. senator

  The NBA reporter's unpaid suspension will last up until the NBA restarts its season.

• Posted Tuesday 7/07/20 at 4:29PM EDT

  ABC to mark the return of the NBA with a two-hour primetime NBA Restart special

  Ahead of the Aug.

• Posted Tuesday 6/30/20 at 3:41PM EDT

  Marv Albert to sit out the NBA's Orlando restart because of the coronavirus surge

  “I had second thoughts,” the 79-year-old legendary announcer said after the recent surge in coronavirus cases.

• Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:43PM EDT

  NBA will reportedly paint "Black Lives Matter" on basketball courts in Orlando

  ESPN reports the NBA and National Basketball Players Association have agreed to have "Black Lives Matter" painted on the court...

• Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 1:09PM EDT

  NBA announces resumption of the season on July 30 as 5% of players test positive for coronavirus

  NBA players and staff will be subject to "stringent health and safety protocols" when the 2019-20 season resumes in Orlando.

• Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT

  A player dying from coronavirus is the only thing that would stop sports now

  "Forgive me for being macabre, but I think the only thing that would stop them is nothing short of a...

• Posted Monday 6/22/20 at 9:40AM EDT

  ESPN to revisit LeBron James' The Decision 10 years later

  A new episode of ESPN's Backstory, premiering Sunday, will revisit the 75-minute over-the-top special on July 8, 2010 in which...

• Posted Monday 6/15/20 at 3:19PM EDT

  ESPN invites six sports commissioners for tonight's SportsCenter Special: The Return of Sports

  The NHL's Gary Bettman, the WNBA's Cathy Engelbert, Major League Soccer's Don Garber, the NFL's Roger Goodell, Major League Baseball...

• Posted Thursday 6/04/20 at 2:35PM EDT

  NBA votes to resume play with a 22-team format

  The NBA's Board of Governors voted 29–1 to resume the 2019-20 season with a 22-team format, tentatively on July 31,...