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Chicago nearly blew all of a 27-point lead after Nikola Vucevic converted a 3-point play with slightly more than 10 minutes left in the third quarter

Sacramento has won 11 of its last 13 and seven straight on the road

The Wolves played without guard Anthony Edwards, who left in the first quarter Friday because of a sprained right ankle

The game was the last of Ja Morant’s league-imposed suspension

Nikola Jokic had 24 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists for the Nuggets, who lost for the fifth time in six games

The new deal was finalized after Bogdanovic declined his $18 million player option for the 2023-24 season

The race for the last two guaranteed playoff spots and the four berths into the play-in tournament is as muddled and murky as possible.

Golden State is battling for homecourt in the postseason, which could be pivotal in defending the title

Conference-leading Nuggets are winless since a March 6 home victory over the Raptors

Washington (32-37) moved percentage points ahead of Chicago (31-36) for the final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference.

D’Angelo Russell added 17 points to help Los Angeles (34-35) move one game ahead of New Orleans (33-36) in the Western Conference standings

Davis has scored 3,642 points in 142 games while it took Maravich just 83 to get 3,667 during three seasons

The figure includes a newly agreed upon payment from the county of $13.5 million along with the $15 million a federal jury awarded Bryant’s widow

Lillard got tested on the night he tied Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell for the most points in a game this season

‘I’ll hold it for as long as I can, but I’m certain someone will come along in a couple years and try to break it,’ the player said

McClung has played mostly in the G League, where he ranks 36th in scoring this season at 19 points per game

The Utah Jazz traditionally don’t play home games on Sundays out of respect to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

It’ll be a particularly busy weekend for 11 players who are now slotted to be in multiple events during the three days of action in Utah

Jordan, now the owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets, first supported Make-A-Wish in 1989

It reaffirmed that getting out of the Western Conference and making the NBA Finals is going to be incredibly daunting this season

Phoenix could end up being more powerful than last season’s squad, which won an NBA-best 64 games, then flamed out with a second-round loss to Dallas

‘I didn’t set this as a goal, so that’s probably why it’s so surreal and so weird to me,’ the player said after the game

The Nets get Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith and a package of draft picks, according to a person familiar with the terms of the deal

The player moved 36 points away from breaking the sport’s career scoring record in the team’s 131-126 loss to New Orleans on Saturday

The off-court achievement that the player is most proud of is working to uplift the lives of people in his hometown of Akron

There were 56 players who entered this week averaging at least 20 points per game