Posts in tag

leagues


Houston Rockets star James Harden has been $50,000 for violating the NBA’s health and safety protocols, the league announced on Wednesday night. Videos showing Harden at a party without a mask began circulating on social media on Wednesday morning, leading to a league investigation.  Though Harden tested negative for the coronavirus on Monday, Tuesday and …

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball’s minor leagues canceled their seasons Tuesday because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the head of their governing body said more than half of the 160 teams were in danger of failing without government assistance or private equity injections. The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the minor league governing body …

The first step for the NBA in resuming the 2019-20 season was figuring out a schedule and format. They settled on inviting 22 teams to Orlando and having all of them play eight “seeding” games before beginning the playoffs. If necessary, there will be a mini play-in tournament for the eighth seed in each conference, …

Former NBA player Brock Gillespie appeared on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” Wednesday and defended commissioner Adam Silver for his handling of the growing controversy surrounding the league’s business interests in China. “Adam is a good friend of mine and he’s walking a tightrope here, but there’s nobody better more equipped to handle the situation than him,” Gillespie, who …

In our post-Finals Power Rankings, we asked whether offseason chaos was on the horizon. Welp. Free agency saw Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving team up in Brooklyn, D’Angelo Russell join the Splash Brothers, Jimmy Butler take his talents to South Beach and Tobias Harris and Kristaps Porzingis sign max deals with Philly and Dallas, respectively. …