Towns is top rookie, honors Flip with car gift 2:16 PM ET ESPN.com news services print Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is the unanimous choice as NBA Rookie of the Year, it was made official Monday. Towns, the No. 1 overall pick from Kentucky, received all 130 votes, which were cast by sportswriters and broadcasters in the United States and Canada. He became the … [Read more...]

Karl-Anthony Towns is your (unanimously-voted) Rookie of the Year In an NBA awards season filled with unanimity, another obvious choice received what he was due on Monday. Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns is the 2015-16 NBA Rookie of the Year, earning every first place vote available. [Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] Some 130 of them, in fact, becoming … [Read more...]

Experts' predictions: Who will win Warriors-Thunder? 11:32 AM ET print Who will advance to the NBA Finals? Our writers make their predictions on the Golden State-Oklahoma City Western Conference finals showdown. Let's block ads! (Why?) … [Read more...]

BDL's NBA 2015-16 Playoff Previews: Cavaliers vs. Raptors How They Got Here • Cleveland: By steamrolling the Detroit Pistons and Atlanta Hawks in a vulgar display of power that confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Cavs are the team to beat in the Eastern Conference and introduced the possibility they just might be able to trade haymakers with an eventual Western Conference champion … [Read more...]

76ers become first NBA team to find a sponsor for jersey ads We're partnering with @Stubhub as our official jersey patch sponsor! #StubHubSixers[ 👕 » https://t.co/RQEXl0BPUj ] pic.twitter.com/95jofobxj8— Philadelphia 76ers (@Sixers) May 16, 2016 After years of debate and negotiation, the NBA finally approved a three-year trial of advertisements on jerseys last month, and it didn't take long … [Read more...]

76ers, StubHub partner for first NBA jersey ad 6:39 AM ET Darren RovellESPN Senior Writer Close ESPN.com's sports business reporter since 2012; previously at ESPN from 2000-06 Appears on SportsCenter, ESPN Radio, ESPN.com and with ABC News Formerly worked as analyst at CNBC print The Philadelphia 76ers have become the first team in the four major U.S. sports to sell an ad on a … [Read more...]

Basketball Daily Dose: Dose: The 21-year wait Toronto advances to the Eastern Conference Finals for first time in franchise history. Kyle Lowry was brilliant in the 116-89 Game 7 win over the Heat on Sunday afternoon, scoring 35 points on 11-of-20 shooting (8-of-11 from the stripe) to go with seven rebounds, nine assists, five triples, four steals and four turnovers through 42 minutes of action. … [Read more...]

What2Watch4: Kevin Durant's disappearing act 10:26 PM ET Ryan Feldman print Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant averaged 36.3 points, 12.0 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game in three games against the Golden State Warriors this season. According to Elias Sports Bureau research, he joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt Chamberlain as the only players to average at least 36 … [Read more...]

Tyronn Lue calls it a 'relief' to finally learn conference finals foe 11:40 PM ET Dave McMenaminESPN Staff Writer Close Cavs and NBA writer for ESPN.com Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14 and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09 Syracuse University graduate print INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- And on the seventh day, an Eastern Conference finals opponent … [Read more...]

Warriors list Bogut as questionable for Game 1 9:55 PM ET ESPN.com news services print Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut is questionable for the Western Conference finals opener on Monday because of an adductor strain. Bogut suffered the injury on Wednesday in the Warriors' series-clinching Game 5 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. Andrew Bogut is questionable for the … [Read more...]