Jamal Collier

1 week ago | espn.co.uk | Jamal Collier

CHICAGO -- Arturas Karnisovas insisted he has a plan to lift the Chicago Bulls after years of mediocrity. The team's top basketball executive also had a request. "I'm asking for fans' patience," he said Thursday, a day after a season-ending loss to Miami. "Because we're in the first year of that transition. I thought the way we finished the year showed some promise.

1 week ago | espn.com | Jamal Collier

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Klay Thompson scored 16 of his 23 points in Dallas' dominant second quarter to get redemption for his dud in Sacramento a year ago, helping the Mavericks beat the Kings 120-106 on Wednesday night to advance in the play-in tournament. One year to the day when Thompson missed all 10 shots in his final game for Golden State in a play-in loss in Sacramento, Thompson fueled the win with four 3-pointers in Dallas' 44-point second quarter.

1 week ago | espn.in | Jamal Collier

CLEVELAND -- Rick Carlisle described Indiana's first 81 games as eventful before his Pacers took on the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday in the regular-season finale. Game 82 will go down as momentous. Indiana staged the biggest comeback in team history, erasing a 27-point deficit for a 126-118 victory in double overtime. It also gave the Pacers 50 wins for the 10th time in franchise history, but first since the 2013-14 season. "Certainly proud of the group that finished the game.

1 week ago | espn.com | Jamal Collier

DETROIT -- The Milwaukee Bucks and Indiana Pacers will matchup in the first round of the NBA playoffs for the second consecutive season. All the Eastern Conference playoff seeds were secured on Friday night, as the Bucks secured their position as the No. 5 seed with a 125-119 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Friday night. Meanwhile, Indiana dropped a 129-115 contest to the Orlando Magic, snapping a six-game winning streak, which locked the Pacers into the No.4 seed.

2 weeks ago | espn.in | Ramona Shelburne |Jamal Collier

CHICAGO -- Bulls guard Lonzo Ball got to meet the family of the man who donated the knee cartilage he received in a transplant two years ago. Ball signed jerseys and took pictures before Wednesday's game against the Miami Heat with the mother, father, an older and a younger brother, and soon-to-be sister-in-law of the late Alex Reinhardt of Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, who died at age 20 in late February 2023.