2:39 PM ET Miami Heat All-Star center Bam Adebayo is not shying away from the lofty goals he has set for his career after recently signing a five-year extension that could be worth almost $200 million. “I definitely want to be, long time down the road when my career ends, whenever somebody mentions a top-five

3:41 PM ET As the Miami Heat gear up for another run toward the NBA Finals this season, they do so after the shortest turnaround from the end of one season to the beginning of another in history. After just seven weeks off following the loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals

12:56 AM ET Golden State Warriors associate coach Mike Brown took charge of the Nigeria national basketball team for the first time this past November, in the first round of the 2021 Afrobasket qualifiers, and got off to a 3 and 0 start. With no time to scrimmage, and only a handful of practice games

6:09 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN One of the NBA’s biggest offseason questions is still lingering: Will Giannis Antetokounmpo agree to a five-year supmermax extension to remain in Milwaukee? Although his current head coach Mike Budenholzer and teammate Khris Middleton might not have the answers, they’ve let their intentions be known. “I have a lot of

11:13 AM ET The 2020-21 NBA season is fast approaching, and teams are getting ready for the Dec. 22 tip off by unveiling their new City Edition jerseys. First introduced in 2016, the City Edition jerseys are updated each year, though some teams — like the Jazz — stuck with the same design for multiple

4:01 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA announced its national TV schedule for the first three days of the season — Dec. 22, 23 and 25 — Wednesday, featuring nine games involving most of the league’s biggest names. Opening night will see the Warriors open the season by traveling to Brooklyn to face the Nets,

5:32 PM ET Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry is confident that new center James Wiseman can have an immediate impact for his team this season. “For sure,” Curry said during a videoconference call with reporters. “What that means — obviously he’s a second [overall] pick so the expectations are usually high comparing him

7:00 AM ET The NBA returns to regular-season action on Dec. 22 following an abbreviated offseason — one that saw the draft and the start of free agency compressed into the same week — with some uncertainty. With the coronavirus pandemic ongoing, the league is facing decisions about how to undertake a campaign outside the

5:49 PM ET Two Golden State Warriors players have tested positive for COVID-19, president of basketball operations/general manager Bob Myers said Tuesday. “As players have entered back into our market, two players have tested positive after they’ve reentered,” Myers said. “I don’t think this is unexpected with all the guys coming back in from [outside

3:06 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN RJ Barrett says he is using failing to make either the first or second All-Rookie NBA teams this past season as motivation heading into his sophomore campaign. “It bothered me a lot,” Barrett said Tuesday as the New York Knicks opened training camp. “Not going to lie. It bothered me