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Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 44 points on 17-for-20 shooting to lead the Bucks to a 131-116 victory over the Lakers on Tuesday night.
When LeBron James scored his sixth point on Tuesday during the Los Angeles Lakers' game at Brooklyn, it meant he had reached 36,387 in his career.
Anthony Davis is injured and out for at least a month. Klay Thompson’s incredibly long recovery is not quite finished. Kyrie Irving is almost certainly not going to be ready to make his season debut.
The coronavirus-related numbers around the league are skyrocketing, and there’s certainly a strong chance that some teams playing on Christmas this year will be without key players.
The NBA and its players have agreed to enhanced health and safety protocols through the holiday season in response to rising virus numbers, with additional testing coming and a return to mask usage in many situations.
DENVER (AP) — There's no game in Chicago on Tuesday, no trip for the Bulls to Toronto for another on Thursday.
Free agent Wesley Matthews rejoined the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday, after spending last season with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Khris Middleton returns after missing eight games due to COVID-19 and makes consecutive 3-pointers 30 seconds apart early in the fourth quarter to put Milwaukee ahead for good in the 109-102 victory.
The NBA tips off its 75th season tonight with multiple games. Follow live scores and updates from the games.
"The narrative about our age, I kind of laugh at it," LeBron James said. "I really do laugh. I'm not just saying that."
This will be the third NBA season affected at least in part by the pandemic, almost certainly not the last, and some teams revealed that their rosters are 100% vaccinated entering the season.
After a trade, Milwaukee acquired two second-round picks and used them on Sandro Mamukelashvili and Georgios Kalaitzakis.
Television ratings for the NBA Finals and playoffs posted sizable increases over last year. But that was the only good news for the NBA as far as viewer numbers.
After two seasons that felt like one relentless grind interrupted only by a strange championship celebration, the Los Angeles Lakers simply need a rest.
The NBA playoffs are back. Just about back to normal, too.
Andre Drummond left his Lakers debut with a bruised right toe, and Jrue Holiday scored 28 points in the Milwaukee Bucks' 112-97 victory over Los Angeles on Wednesday night.
Two-time All-Star center Andre Drummond is joining the Los Angeles Lakers for the playoff push.
LeBron James left in the second quarter with a high right ankle sprain that the Lakers said will sideline him indefinitely, and Los Angeles went on to fall 99-94 to the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday.
LeBron James used the No. 1 overall pick on Giannis Antetokounmpo in the draft for Sunday’s All-Star Game in Atlanta.
Spending any time trying to figure how the East is going to shake out would be a futile undertaking, because it’s clear that the teams themselves have no idea.
After winning seven of eight games, the Bucks fell to new-look Brooklyn and defending NBA champion Los Angeles this week.
Kevin Durant hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 36 seconds left as Brooklyn prevailed over Milwaukee 125-123.
His career was built as a starter, but the Los Angeles Lakers have asked venerable veteran Wesley Matthews to become a key role player off the bench.
Milwaukee rolled to a 144-97 victory against the team that knocked it out of last season's playoffs.