Getty Images The Milwaukee Bucks have fired head coach Mike Budenholzer, the team announced Thursday. The decision comes on the heels of Milwaukee’s embarrassing first-round defeat at the hands of the Miami Heat. Milwaukee, the No. 1 overall seed in the NBA playoffs, became the first No. 1 seed since the first round moved to a seven-game format to be …

Lance Blanks served as the Phoenix Suns’ general manager from 2010-13, and later returned to Texas to serve as an analyst with the Longhorn Network. (AP/Michael Thomas) Former Texas star, NBA player and executive Lance Blanks died on Wednesday, the league announced on Thursday afternoon. He was 56. His cause of death is still unknown. “Lance was a light for …

Eight teams are left vying for the 2023 NBA title. Four second-round matchups are all in action this week, including Game 2 of Warriors-Lakers on Thursday night. The defending champs need a win at home to even the series after L.A. and Anthony Davis stole Game 1 and home-court advantage on Tuesday. The other three second-round series will continue this …

Bartlesville High’s David Castillo makes a no-look pass during boys basketball action at the January 2023 ConocoPhillips/Arvest Invitational. On Dec. 2, 2022, Bartlesville High’s David Castillo, No. 10, recorded his second career 40-point night for the Bartlesville High School boys basketball team. Castillo scored more than 1,000 points his first two seasons and is on a pace this season to …

The Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday fired coach Mike Budenholzer, creating the best job opening in the NBA. The Bucks finished with the best record in the league at 58-24 and earned the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference. However, the Miami Heat defeated Milwaukee in a five-game series in the first round of the playoffs, a disappointing finish to …

1 Kansas This ranking is based on the Jayhawks returning two starters – Dajuan Harris and K.J. Adams – from a team that won the Big 12 regular-season title before securing a No. 1 seed in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. Bill Self has reshaped the roster with a top-10 recruiting class highlighted by former Michigan All-American Hunter Dickinson, former Towson …

Getty Images Jimmy Butler will have had five full days off when the Miami Heat host the New York Knicks in Game 3 of their second-round series on Saturday. There is optimism that, by then, Butler will be healthy enough to return to the lineup, unless he has a setback, a source told the Miami Herald. Butler sprained his right …

The Alabama coaching staff has reportedly made contact with North Dakota State transfer Grant Nelson. Nelson is testing the NBA Draft waters but is keeping the option of returning to college on the table. Nelson is one of the more popular names in the transfer portal. Since entering his name into the transfer portal on Tuesday, Nelson has heard from …

The Philadelphia 76ers looked terrible as a team on Wednesday night, but coach Doc Rivers is feeling very good about Joel Embiid’s health after the blowout loss. Rivers said Thursday that Embiid, who returned Wednesday from a sprained LCL in his right knee, is feeling good after their 121-87 loss to the Boston Celtics. His motion-tracking numbers, Rivers added, were …

Mazzulla takes victory lap after Celtics’ Game 2 adjustments pay off originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston In case you haven’t heard, Joe Mazzulla is a very competitive person. Which means he has a tendency to keep receipts. Mazzulla took criticism for some of his coaching decisions in the Boston Celtics’ Game 1 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday …

Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports is really high on the Spartans entering the 2023-24 season. Rothstein released an updated batch of his “Rothstein 45” preseason rankings for the 2023-24 season, and he has the Spartans near the top of the list. Michigan State comes in at No. 3 on Rothstein’s list, behind only No. 1 Duke and No. 2 Purdue. …

All hail the hustle king. Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart is the winner of the 2023 NBA Hustle award, the league announced on Thursday. Smart also won the award in 2022 and 2019. No other player has done so more than once.  The award honors players who “make the effort plays that don’t often appear in the traditional box score …

LAWRENCE — Transfers Arterio Morris and Nicolas Timberlake have joined the Kansas men’s basketball team. Kansas coach Bill Self confirmed the transfers through a news release Wednesday. Morris and Timberlake add to a roster that will look much different than the one that earned a Big 12 Conference regular-season title this past season. And both will be immediately eligible to …

Luka Dončić is stepping up after a mass shooting that killed eight children and a security guard at a Serbian elementary school on Wednesday. The Dallas Mavericks star has committed to pay for the victims’ funeral services and grief counseling for classmates and staff at Vladislav Ribnikar primary school, according to ESPN’s Adriand Wojnarowski. While Dončić is a native of …

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The NBA Playoffs continue to roll on with another highly anticipated Western Conference semifinal bout between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night. Anthony Davis made history with a scintillating performance in Game 1, etching his name into Lakers history by becoming the only player to drop at least 30 points, 20 rebounds, five assists …

The Suns-Nuggets Western Conference semifinal series resumes on Friday at 7 p.m., at Footprint Center in downtown Phoenix, with the Suns down 0-2 to Denver. Few would disagree that Phoenix finds itself in a must-win situation Friday. Let us play optimist and pessimist ahead of Game 3, offering three reasons why Phoenix will win this series, along with three reasons …

Stephen A. Smith doesn’t think Pat Bev should get Lakers ring originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Patrick Beverley and the Chicago Bulls failed to make the playoffs after falling to the Miami Heat during the final game of the Eastern Conference play-in tournament. But Beverley and Russell Westbrook, former teammates on the Los Angeles Lakers earlier this season, haven’t …

Per the NBA, veteran Boston Celtics point guard Marcus Smart is the winner of the league’s 2022-23 NBA Hustle Award, his second such honor in as many seasons and the third such award won over the course of the last five seasons. The first player in the award’s history to win it back-to-back, the award was first given to Patrick …

It was a shock to the system in Ann Arbor when Michigan basketball center Hunter Dickinson, the engine of the team the past three years, was announced to be staying in the college ranks — but not with the Wolverines. The expectation was that Dickinson would return for his senior season, fueled by NIL — but name, image, and likeness …

Jonathan Kuminga has been out of the Golden State Warriors’ rotation lately, and the 20-year-old forward has found this “tough,” he said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle‘s C.J. Holmes.  Kuminga, the No. 7 pick in the 2021 draft, averaged 9.9 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 20.8 minutes this season, appearing in 67 games and starting in …

Earlier in the offseason, Michigan center Hunter Dickinson entered his name in the transfer portal. The 7-foot-1 big man instantly became the biggest name in the portal after having spent his first three seasons of college basketball with Juwan Howard and Michigan. Dickinson immediately — and unsurprisingly — picked up interest from top-tier college basketball programs Kansas, Kentucky, Villanova and …

Dillon Brooks may have played his last game for the Memphis Grizzlies after spending his entire professional career with the team. The pending unrestricted free agent was informed “he will not be brought back under any circumstances,” The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported Tuesday. Team officials reportedly broke the news to Brooks in exit meetings recently, where both parties reportedly agreed …

STILLWATER — Two weeks after Oklahoma State’s season ended in the National Invitational Tournament quarterfinals, some roster clarity finally emerged. Veteran guard John-Michael Wright confirmed Tuesday that he would return next season, taking advantage of his extra season of eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A transfer from High Point before last season, the 6-foot-1 senior started all 36 games …

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