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Players, coaches kneel before NBA’s re-opening night

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Black players were next to white players. Coaches from one team were next to their compatriots from the opposing side. Many locked arms with the man next to them, so...

DATE: Jul 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Game on: NBA restart finally arrives

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Games were canceled. Practice facilities were shuttered. A season ended unceremoniously for eight teams. The draft process was delayed, as was free agency. Some play...

DATE: Jul 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

West preview: It’ll be a wild race for eighth — and ninth

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Add this plot twist to an unusual NBA season: To get the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference, a whole bunch of teams will enter the final two weeks of the regular s...

DATE: Jul 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Whole new look, a whole new NBA experience

Courts ready to welcome players

DATE: Jul 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Lakers’ LeBron James speaks out: ‘Nothing is normal in 2020’

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – LeBron James keeps hearing the same questions. How’s it going? How’s the bubble? He now has a one-size-fits-all answer. “I just say it’s 2020,”...

DATE: Jul 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NBA going with shorter games for Disney openers

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The first exhibition games of the NBA restart will go a little more quickly than usual. The NBA is tweaking the rules for those initial matchups, going wi...

DATE: Jul 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NBA says MVP race is over

Individual player awards to be voted on before restart

DATE: Jul 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Nuggets’ Barton: Jersey messages won’t make enough impact

Denver guard works with schools, YMCAs

DATE: Jul 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Rockets’ Westbrook has virus, as NBA bubble faces first test

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Houston’s Russell Westbrook hasn’t made it to the NBA restart yet. The coronavirus did – but health protocols seemed to work as the league and its players...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NBA teams at Disney had tough travel-party decisions to make

The 22 teams participating in the NBA restart were all at the Disney campus together for the first time Friday. None of them, however, made it to the Orlando, Florida area with th...

DATE: Jul 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NBA teams on the cusp of real practices

Teams get to work Thursday at Disney

DATE: Jul 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Asterisk on the NBA title? Coaches, players say not a chance

The 2020 NBA champion, if one is crowned, will have emerged as the ultimate winner from a season that lasted more than a full year from start to finish. A season that saw political unrest be...

DATE: Jul 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports