9:51 PM ET LOS ANGELES — The text landed a little after 9 on Friday night. The Golden State Warriors players had decided — of their own volition — to move practice up from 11 a.m. to 9 a.m. the following morning. “I got the text at night, 9:15 or so, and it was like,

3:47 PM ET SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Spurs forward DeMar DeRozan was fined $25,000 for flinging a basketball at official Scott Foster in the fourth quarter of Game 4 between the Denver Nuggets and Spurs on Saturday night. The NBA announced that the fine was due to DeRozan “recklessly throwing the basketball toward a

4:06 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — James Harden claimed he had no clue that he missed his first 15 field goal attempts in Saturday’s Game 3, the most consecutive misses from the floor in any game of his career. It certainly didn’t impact the reigning MVP’s confidence. Harden scored 14 of his 22 points

11:13 PM ET SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The last time the Denver Nuggets won a game in San Antonio Spurs in 2012, All-Star center Nikola Jokic was 17 years old. “I was riding horses probably,” he said. The Nuggets rode out of AT&T Center on Saturday night after doing something this current roster had never

3:03 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, who sat out Game 3 of their first-round playoff series against the Brooklyn Nets with left knee soreness, is starting Game 4 on Saturday, the team announced. Embiid, who missed 14 of the Sixers’ final 24 games after the All-Star break because of left knee tendinitis, was

10:27 AM ET BRETT BROWN WAS 25 and lost. It’s not an unfamiliar place for many. He was single and stir-crazy, unfulfilled in a sales job, a few years out of Boston University — where he played for Rick Pitino — and with an itch to see more. He had made some sound investments and

6:49 PM ET The Oakland Athletics, in what appeared to be a clever if not wry dig at soon-to-be free agent and Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant, took out a full-page advertisement in Friday’s San Francisco Chronicle that reads “KD commits to Oakland.” The ad came with Durant set to hit free agency this

1:06 PM ET The NBA has rescinded technical fouls called against the Warriors‘ Kevin Durant and the Clippers‘ JaMychal Green during Thursday’s Game 3, the league announced Friday. Both players appeared surprised by the third-quarter call, since they were just exchanging a few words when the double-technical was given. Durant said after the game that

4:22 AM ET LOS ANGELES — When Kevin Durant first joined the Golden State Warriors nearly three years ago, he went through a bit of an adjustment period with his new teammates and coaches. They’d go out of their way to make him feel comfortable in his new surroundings, often at their own expense on

6:48 AM ET The Brooklyn Nets and LA Clippers have taken home-court advantage heading into pivotal Game 3s on Thursday. What adjustments do the Philadelphia 76ers and Golden State Warriors need to make? Let’s start in Philadelphia, where all eyes are on the Sixers’ point guard. 76ers-Nets The Har-Ben-ger of things to come If Joel