Basketball
- 🏀 Ranking the top 10 rivalries for next season
A competitive postseason and buzzy offseason have elevated some of the league's feistiest conflicts.
- Sources: Suns' Williams has shoulder surgery, to miss extended time
Phoenix Suns center Mark Williams had surgery Thursday to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder and will miss several months.
- Lakers to add Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson as ninth statue in Star Plaza
The Lakers are honoring legendary coach Phil Jackson with a statue to be unveiled outside Crypto.com Arena on April 9.
- Simmons reaches 1-year, $3.5M deal with Kings
Ben Simmons is back in the NBA after reaching one-year, $3.5 million deal with the Kings, his agents Max Wiepking, Sean Tribe and Ryan Arney told Andscape and ESPN.
- Sources: Lakers to hire Amsler as assistant GM
The Lakers are hiring longtime Miami Heat executive Eric Amsler as an assistant general manager, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania on Wednesday.