Rockets coach Ime Udoka has been fined $25,000 for criticizing officiating after Houston's overtime loss to the Nuggets on Monday.
Jamal Murray scored a season-high 52 points and Nikola Jokic fell just short of another triple-double to help the Denver Nuggets hold off the short-handed Indiana Pacers 135-120 on Wednesday night.
The Denver Nuggets have lost another starter, with forward Aaron Gordon sidelined indefinitely by a strained right hamstring.
Zion Williamson returned to the New Orleans Pelicans' lineup on Wednesday night, scoring 14 points in 125-118 loss to the Denver Nuggets.
Nikola Jokic has led the Denver Nuggets to a 130-116 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, scoring 55 points to tie the highest-scoring performance in the NBA this season.
Nikola Jokic had 55 points, tying the highest-scoring performance in the NBA this season, and 12 rebounds and the Denver Nuggets beat the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers 130-116 on Wednesday night for their sixth straight victory.
The NBA is targeting October 2027 as a possible launch date for a new Europe-based league in collaboration with FIBA.
The NBA season opens Tuesday with a record 135 players born outside the U.S. They come from 43 countries, with 71 players from Europe.
The NBA is planning to revamp the All-Star Game format, pitting U.S. players against international stars in a tournament setting.
The NBA has introduced a new program this season, sending referees to training camps to officiate scrimmages.
NBA players can now shoot those long end-of-quarter heaves without hurting their shooting percentages.
Luka Donฤiฤโs 39 points were not enough for Slovenia as it lost 99-91 to Germany in a thrilling EuroBasket quarterfinal.
Georgia has advanced to the quarterfinals at the EuroBasket tournament for the first time with a dominant 80-70 win against France.
Elias Valtonen has scored eight points in the final two minutes to help Finland stun Serbia and Nikola Jokic 92-86 in the round of 16 at the EuroBasket tournament.
Three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic has decided to delay a contract extension with the Denver Nuggets this summer.
The NBA Summer League is giving athletes another shot that takes place behind the camera.
Oklahoma Cityโs Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denverโs Nikola Jokic and Milwaukeeโs Giannis Antetokounmpo were the only players to appear on every MVP ballot this season.
The Denver Nuggets have named David Adelman their head coach, taking the interim tag off his title after he led them into the second round of the NBA playoffs.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 35 points, Jalen Williams added 24 and the Oklahoma City Thunder rolled into the Western Conference finals, beating the Denver Nuggets 125-93 in Game 7.
Now this was finally a role Julian Strawther could sink his teeth into, even if it cost him one.
Jamal Murray fought through an illness to score 25 points and power the Denver Nuggets past the Thunder 119-107, sending the series back to Oklahoma City for a decisive Game 7.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the youthful Oklahoma Thunder are on the verge of making the franchiseโs first appearance in the Western Conference finals since 2016.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder rallied from a double-digit deficit in the second half to beat the Denver Nuggets 112-105 and go up 3-2 in their Western Conference semifinal series.
The Oklahoma City Thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers, the top seeds in the playoffs and owners of the best regular-season records in the NBA, find themselves in dire need of wins as they host Game 5s in the conference semifinals on Tuesday night.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 25 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder finally outplayed Denver in crunch time, beating the Nuggets 92-87 Sunday to knot their second-round series at two games each.
The Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder couldnโt wake up their offense with an early tip for Game 4 on Sunday.
Jamal Murray scored 27 points and Michael Porter Jr. bounced back with 21 clutch points, leading the Denver Nuggets past the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder 113-104 in overtime Friday night for a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference semifinal series.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder rolled past the Denver Nuggets 149-106 in Game 2 of their Western Conference semifinal series.
The Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder looked very much like the dominant teams they were during the regular season in securing lopsided first-round playoff series wins.
Sam Presti of the Oklahoma City Thunder was announced Tuesday as the NBAโs executive of the year, the reward for building that team into a juggernaut that won a league-best 68 games this season.
Nikola Jokic had 42 points and 22 rebounds, and Aaron Gordon hit a 3-pointer with 2.8 seconds to give the Denver Nuggets a stunning 121-119 comeback win over the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinals series.
Not this time: The Denver Nuggetsโ second-half lead was way too big for them to fritter away.
The Nuggets are glad Game 7 of their first-round playoff series with the Clippers will be at home Saturday.
James Harden had 28 points and eight assists in an outstanding bounce-back performance, Kawhi Leonard added 27 points and the Los Angeles Clippers forced a seventh game in their first-round NBA playoff series with a 111-105 victory over the Denver Nuggets in Game 6 on Thursday night.
Jrue Holiday of the Boston Celtics has won the NBAโs sportsmanship award for the second time, making him the fifth player in league history to win that trophy in multiple years.
Jamal Murray erupted for 43 points and Russell Westbrook chipped in 21 in his return from a foot injury, sparking the Nuggetsโ 131-115 win over the Los Angeles Clippers Tuesday night that gave Denver a 3-2 lead in the best-of-7 series.
The Boston Celtics, New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers are all on the verge of a second round that appears to be taking shape quickly in the Eastern Conference.
Aaron Gordon slammed down Nikola Jokicโs miss as time expired to lift the Denver Nuggets over the Los Angeles Clippers 101-99 on Saturday to tie their playoff series 2-2.
Kawhi Leonard scored 39 points on 15-of-19 shooting and the Los Angeles Clippers evened their first-round playoff series against the Nuggets with a 105-102 win in Denver.
Itโs now reasonable to think that Milwaukeeโs Giannis Antetokounmpo finished third in this seasonโs balloting for the NBA MVP award.
The Detroit Pistons could have sounded shaken, after a few miserable minutes against the New York Knicks ruined an otherwise solid return to the postseason.
Nikola Jokic scored 29 points and Aaron Gordon added 25, including a pair of huge free throws with 12 seconds left and the Denver Nuggets roared back from a 15-point first-half deficit to power past the Los Angeles Clippers 112-110 in overtime in the opener of their Western Conference playoff series.
Theyโll be watching in Canada, not just because of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, though the NBAโs scoring champion and MVP favorite who plays for Oklahoma City surely helps lure in fans who are north of the border.
Firing the head coach and general manager with just three games left in the regular season might seem like an impulsive move but Denver Nuggets coach Josh Kroenke said Tuesday the split was months in the making.
Nikola Jokic will average a triple-double for the season, making the Denver star the third player in NBA history to pull off such a feat.
Nikola Jokic had his 32nd triple-double of the season with 20 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists and Denver beat the Sacramento Kings 124-116 on Wednesday night in the Nuggetsโ first game since head coach Michael Malone was fired.
All five of the Denver Nuggets starters are out for their game against the San Antonio Spurs on Wednedsay night.
Nikola Jokic had 39 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in his first game back in nearly two weeks to lead the Denver Nuggets to a 127-117 victory against the Milwaukee Bucks.
On a night when Josh Hart broke a New York Knicks franchise record that stood for 56 years, he decided to give the game ball to a teammate who played three minutes.
Luka Doncic had 31 points, nine rebounds and seven assists in just three quarters of work, and the Los Angeles Lakers routed the Denver Nuggets 120-108 in a matchup of injury-depleted Western Conference contenders.
Doc Rivers says he saw star potential in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander while coaching him as a rookie before the Los Angeles Clippers traded him to Oklahoma City.
Luka Doncic didn't play in the Lakers' 131-126 loss at Denver Friday night, joining LeBron James on the team's lengthy list of unavailable players.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic, two of the favorites for the NBAโs MVP award, showed why in a pair of exciting games on back-to-back days in Oklahoma City.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 40 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Denver Nuggets 127-103 in a matchup between the top two teams in the Western Conference standings.
Nikola Jokic sat in front of his locker, calmly scrolling through his phone, seemingly unimpressed that 30 minutes earlier he made NBA history.
Nikola Jokic had 31 points, 21 rebounds and a career-high 22 assists and the Denver Nuggets outlasted the Phoenix Suns 149-141 in overtime Friday night after losing a 21-point lead.
Luka Doncic had his best game in a Lakers uniform Saturday night in Denver when he led Los Angeles to a 123-100 win over the Nuggets who had won nine games in a row.
Luka Doncic had his best game yet for the Los Angeles Lakers, leading them to a 123-100 win at Denver that snapped the Nuggets' nine-game winning streak.
Victor Wembanyama is one of the faces of the NBA, the star of the San Antonio Spurs and already one of the biggest names in basketball around the world.
Victor Wembanyama has already gone up against the U.S. in international events, most notably last yearโs Paris Olympics when he led Franceโs march to the gold medal game against the Americans.
There was a conversation that Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James had with Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic during last yearโs All-Star Game that went viral, since microphones picked up the exchange.
There are six first-time All-Stars set to play in Sunday's NBA midseason showcase in San Francisco.
Two years after he won an NBA title, Nikola Jokic views the surging New York Knicks as a โtop-five candidateโ to end their 52-year championship drought.
Nikola Jokic took an inbounds pass with 1.7 seconds left in the third quarter, turned and let fly with a 66-foot heave that got all net at the other end.
Kawhi Leonard left the Los Angeles Clippers in Denver on Wednesday to be with his family in Los Angeles after they were evacuated from their Pacific Palisades home because of wildfires.
Three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic was sidelined for Denverโs clash with Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night because of an illness.
Milwaukeeโs Giannis Antetokounmpo is the early leader in fan balloting for the NBA All-Star Game, and LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers seems well on his way toward extending his record and getting picked for a 21st time.
Russell Westbrook became the second player in NBA history to have a triple-double with zero turnovers and shoot 100% from the field and the free-throw line in the Denver Nuggetsโ 132-121 win over the Utah Jazz.
Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal each scored 27 points and the Phoenix Suns beat the Denver Nuggets 110-100 night in the nightcap to the NBAโs Christmas slate of games.
The NBAโs All-Star Game is going to be an All-Star tournament this season, with the league announcing that it has finalized plans to use a different format for the upcoming midseason showcase in San Francisco.
LeBron James returned to the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night in a 116-110 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies after a two-game break.
