Basketball

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The NBA is investigating LaMelo Ball’s trip of Bam Adebayo, which resulted in the Miami Heat star’s lower back injury during Tuesday’s play-in game against the Charlotte Hornets, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania.

Did your team meet its preseason projections? Tim Bontemps grades all 30, from surprise contenders to franchises banking on lottery luck.

ESPN analyst Zach Kram ranked and tiered the 50 NBA players most likely to make the biggest impacts in the postseason.

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LaMelo Ball made the go-ahead bucket with 4.7 seconds left in overtime, and Miles Bridges sealed it with a block at the buzzer to propel the Hornets and oust the Heat in Tuesday night’s play-in […]

Rap megastar J. Cole said Tuesday that his time playing professional basketball in China has come to an end after one game.

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The Hornets are two wins away from snapping the NBA’s longest current playoff drought. Can Charlotte end the futility by advancing out of the play-in against the Heat?