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The NBA fined Brooklyn Nets’ point guard Kyrie Irving $50,000 for not wearing a mask at a family gathering.

San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich praised the effort of House Democrats to impeach Trump for a second time, calling it a “good move.”

The NBA called off two more games because of COVID-related and contact tracing issues on Monday, and a person with knowledge of the situation said the Miami Heat were preparing to be without “at least five” players for the next several days because of possible exposure to the coronavirus.

A source to the New York Post reports that Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving’s three-game absence is related to the riots that took place at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

LeBron James says that the reaction of police to protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday shows that we live in “two Americas.”

Draymond Green told reporters that the protesters who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday a bunch of “f*ck*ng terrorists.”

In a move presumably meant as a political statement following a day of violence and unrest at the U.S. Capitol, the Boston Celtics walked off the floor before their game against the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.

ESPN recently celebrated the good news that ratings for its NBA season opener were “up 95 percent.” However, this claim lacks serious context.

The NBA’s fight to prevent the spread of the coronavirus amongst their players and staff has just escalated.

The year of coronavirus was a major disaster for professional sports as every league suffered ratings declines, and lost billions in revenue.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Becky Hammon became the first woman to direct a team in NBA history, taking over the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Lakers following Gregg Popovich’s ejection in the first half.

Sports in 2020 was an unending state of mourning. It was as if every week, sometimes days, another luminary fell, bringing a cascade of condolence and remembrance.

Pelicans coach Stan Van Gundy declared himself the poster boy for white privilege, in his best effort to prove he’s a social justice warrior.

The NBA put its best and shiniest presents under the tree of the American television viewer on Christmas Day and America said, no thanks.

The National Basketball Association is finding out that high-visibility social justice messaging, does not equal high ratings.

HOUSTON (AP) — The James Harden soap opera in Houston now comes with a canceled season opener.

Former Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey now claims that he stands behind the pro-democracy tweet that brought such turmoil to the NBA.

Houston Rockets point guard James Harden may have to sit out the team’s season opener after being caught at a strip club without a mask.

The NBA found a way to get through last season amid a pandemic. Adam Silver sees no reason why the same cannot ring true again this season.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has asked L.A. Lakers star, LeBron James, to take the coronavirus vaccine in public to “lead by example.”

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of NBA star Kobe Bryant, is speaking out against a lawsuit her mother has filed against the family. Her mother, Sofia Laine, believes that she is owed backpay from years of serving as a nanny and personal assistant for the Bryant family.

It’s not unusual for people to spend money to go see Magic Johnson. However, a politician using public funds to go see Magic Johnson is another matter entirely.

The National Basketball Association’s Board of Governors voted over the summer, to donate $300 million aimed at the economic empowerment of the Black community.

A group of 17 Boston Celtics players have banded together to criticize Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker for the changes he wants to the state’s proposed police reform bill.

French soccer star Antoine Griezmann, who played for the winning team in the 2018 World Cup and is currently a forward for Barcelona, terminated his relationship with Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Thursday.

LA Laker star LeBron James had been named ‘Time’ magazine’s athlete of the year for his work to stop “voter suppression.”

An extremely disturbing video has emerged from a pee-wee football game in Florida, in which an adult male coach hits one of his 9-year-old players in the head, sending him crashing to the ground.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar revealed that he suffered a bout with prostate cancer and noted that he saw “racial inequality” in U.S. health care.

When golfing at Michael Jordan’s golf course one can expect to have beer delivered to them. Not an altogether unusual experience on a golf course. However, at Jordan’s course, the beer gets delivered by drone.

Video shot by a motorist appears to show LeBron James driving his $1 million Porche convertible, by himself, but still wearing a mask.

Shortly after former NBA star Nate Robinson’s face hit the canvas on Saturday night, UFC welterweight sensation and outspoken Trump supporter Colby Covington tweeted that he would like the opportunity to make NBA social justice warrior LeBron James “eat the canvas in half the amount of time.”

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA said Wednesday that 48 players have tested positive for the coronavirus since testing resumed last week.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James has agreed to a contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Pope Francis met with a delegation of NBA players in the Vatican Monday to discuss economic equality and other “social justice issues.”

Houston Rockets star James Harden is reportedly looking to be traded away because he is upset that team owner is a Trump supporter.

The Sacramento Kings appear to have made a statement by firing an announcer who said, “all lives matter,” only to replace him by hiring someone who claimed that Donald Trump is a “white supremacist terrorist.”