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In a move to inject some excitement into its regular season, the National Basketball Association has unveiled its new in-season tournament. The NBA Cup is a European cup-style competition that adds some sizzle to the early season schedule. Players on the winning team will get $500,000…

Ja Morant, the Memphis Grizzlies’ guard who is among the NBA’s most dynamic players, has been suspended without pay by the league for 25 games after repeatedly brandishing a gun on social media. Pro rated, the suspension could cost Morant $10-plus million, based on his $33.5 million annual salary this…

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is not saying troubled Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving is anti-semitic. In an interview Thursday with the New York Times, Silver talked briefly about his meeting with Irving this week at the NBA’s office in Manhattan. The meeting followed a series of events where Irving…

“Our league definitely got this wrong,” wrote LeBron James today just hours after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver went before the media to try and contain the fallout over what many consider too-mild sanctions on Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver for his reported sexist, racist and abusive behavior toward subordinates…

Shortly before tip off of the first game of the 2021 NBA Finals, league commissioner addressed the turmoil at one of the league’s premiere TV partners, ESPN, surrounding hosts Rachel Nichols and Maria Taylor. Asked by reporters about the controversy over Nichols leaked comments regarding ESPN and Taylor, Silver called…

The NBA and its players union said today that the playoffs will resume Saturday after a three-day pause in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. After a meeting among players, coaches and team officials, the league has committed to “further our collective efforts and actions in support of social…

Every player, coach and referee on the court for the National Basketball Association’s restart tonight took a knee during the national anthem. The move included locking arms together. Players of both teams — the Utah Jazz and New Orleans Pelicans — wore “Black Lives Matter” T-shirts during warmups, and the same…

Commissioner Adam Silver is trying to change the narrative surrounding the National Basketball Association’s dealings with China. Silver said Thursday at a conference in New York that Chinese officials asked him initially to fire Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, who got into hot water for tweeting “Fight…

China’s state-run CCTV and NBA digital rightsholder Tencent have canceled plans to show two upcoming exhibition games in the country that are part of the league’s preseason swing through Asia. The moves comes in retaliation for remarks Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey made last week in support of demonstrators in Hong…

Matching sports-media rival ESPN, Turner Sports has taken the wraps off B/R Live, a new OTT service named for its digital brand Bleacher Report that launches April 7. The service’s arrival will be timed to that of a new spring pro football league, whose player ranks include former college standout Johnny Manziel…

When the National Basketball Association season starts, players need to stand for the national anthem, according to league Commissioner Adam Silver. In a move to stay ahead of the rising tide of fan and corporate anger against athletes who are kneeling or sitting during the national anthem, Silver said…