The Lakers may lose a key 54-game starter from this past season's lineup, as LeBron James decides on his future.

LeBron James, a four-time NBA champion ⁠and ⁠the league's all-time leading scorer, ⁠has told the Los Angeles Lakers he plans to play for another ​team next season, according to an ESPN report on Tuesday.

LeBron James is leaving the Lakers and becoming a free agent. A couple of NFL teams (jokingly) made overtures for the 41-year-old's services.

LeBron James will not be back with the Los Angeles Lakers and plans to play a record-extending 24th NBA season elsewhere, a person with knowledge of those plans confirmed Tuesday

The Raptors just pulled off the most stunning trade of the summer. But one move would turn this from blockbuster to legendary.

Kawhi Leonard to the Raptors has been agreed to, sources tell ESPN. The Clippers will receive unprotected first-round picks in 2031 and 2033, 2030 and 2033 second-round picks and a 2027 first-round swap.

A person with knowledge of the trade says Kawhi Leonard is headed back to the Toronto Raptors, after they struck a deal with the Los Angeles Clippers to reunite with the player who led their run to th

Kawhi Leonard is heading back to Toronto in a blockbuster trade, with the Raptors sending Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick and multiple picks to the Clippers.

As the NBA engulfs itself in free agency, the Oklahoma City Thunder have learned who they'll face in the 2026 NBA Cup. In an effort to pump excitement into Adam Silver's brainchild, the league continues to make tweaks around the in-season tournament to spice up the winter months of the regular season.

Lu Dort is set to return to the OKC Thunder after the team picked up its $17.2 million team option Monday for the 2026-27 NBA season.

As the Thunder and the other 29 teams around the league navigate through the offseason and free agency, which is slated to start on Tuesday night, there isn't much left on the to-do list for the 2025 champions.

Because of that, the Thunder could ship out some role players. One is Lu Dort. He has a $17.7 million 2026-27 team option that they must decide on Monday. Let's lay out the case f

Alyssa Thomas and the Phoenix Mercury aren't hiding their frustration with the WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert. During last Wednesday night's game against the Indiana Fever, the refs missed a loose-ball scuffle where Thomas hit Caitlin Clark in the throat.

Phoenix Mercury star Alyssa Thomas claims she is receiving death threats for the hard foul she gave Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark.

Alyssa Thomas made her first comments on her WNBA suspension for “recklessly making contact” with Caitlin Clark by pressing her fist on Clark’s throat during a game between the Mercury and Fever. The Phoenix star forward was deemed to have committed a “non-basketball act” when she got tangled up with Clark in the second quarter of the Mercury’s win last week.

USAT's Cydney Henderson asks Mercury's Alyssa Thomas about how the WNBA has remained silent following the on-the-court incident with Caitlin Clark.

Pregame analysis and predictions of the Detroit Tigers vs. New York Yankees MLB game to be played on June 30, 2026 on ESPN.

The Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees meet in the second game of their three-game set on Tuesday, June 30 with the home team trying to snap a five-game losing streak. The Yankees were swept in a four-game set over the weekend at the hands of the Boston Red Sox,

"I've been trying to get him in a cart for a couple of years." The Tigers mobbed manager AJ Hinch in the clubhouse after they beat the Yankees, 7-3, Monday night. They got him in the laundry cart, wheeled him into the shower and doused him with all kinds of liquids,

After losing back-to-back, late-inning, spirit-sucking games to the Astros at Comerica Park over the weekend, the Tigers unleashed some pent-up aggression on the New York Yankees Monday night in the Bronx.

In the bottom of the second, Contreras struck out when he tried to check his swing but failed, in the view of first-base umpire Nic Lentz.

Willson Contreras has found himself at the center of a handful of kerfuffles as a member of the Red Sox this season. On Tuesday, tensions boiled over in the fourth inning against the Nationals.

Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras on Tuesday night was ejected for the second consecutive game, but this time he wasn’t alone. Interim manager Chad Tracy, outfielder Nate Eaton and Washington Nationals pitcher Miles Mikolas were also tossed following a fiery brawl in the bottom of the fourth inning.

After Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli struck out Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras looking on a 3-2 pitch in the fourth inning of Tuesday night's game at Fenway Park, the two players started exchanging words,