National Basketball Association News

Rob Pizzo looks at times in sports when athletes have kept their distance. 

After the coronavirus pandemic is conquered and sports has re-emerged, a new layer of security measures must be introduced to ensure public safety.

Ever since Donald Trump talked to a handful of sports commissioners, plans seem to be leaking about possible return scenarios. Rob Pizzo looks at a few. 

NBA commissioner Adam Silver does not expect any decisions to be made until at least May about the possible resumption of the 2019-20 season, saying the coronavirus pandemic simply makes it too difficult to project what will happen next.

The NBA's chances of resuming the 2019-20 season due to the global coronavirus pandemic are growing smaller, ESPN's Brian Windhorst said. Speaking late Friday on "SportsCenter," Windhorst said NBA owners are increasingly pessimistic that play will resume this season.

The late Kobe Bryant and fellow NBA greats Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett headlined a nine-person group announced Saturday as this year's class into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Raptors president Masai Ujiri alleges he was assaulted by a sheriff's deputy before a shoving altercation between the two men at Oakland's Oracle Arena during last year's NBA Finals.

Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse says he is "100 per cent" committed to coaching Canada's men's basketball team when it continues its push for a spot at next year's Tokyo Olympics.

Masai Ujiri would love to see the remainder of the NBA season salvaged somehow. But the Toronto Raptors president said, amid the global COVID-19 pandemic that has brought the sports world to its knees, the only way that will happen is if people follow the medical community's orders about physical distancing.

Kyle Dubas was watching television the evening of March 11 when news started to trickle out of Oklahoma City. An NBA player had tested positive for COVID-19. Shortly thereafter, the league suspended its season. The NHL, and most of the rest of the sports world, would soon follow suit.