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File photo At this point, the Cavaliers don’t look like a team that’s merely waiting on answers. They look like a team still searching for the right questions. Cleveland entered the season as one of the favorites in the East. Twenty-nine games in, the Cavs are 15-14, wobbling near the play-in line and drawing quiet […]

AP The Lakers had a rough night get worse Saturday. Star guard Luka Doncic was ruled out at halftime of a 103-88 loss to the Clippers after suffering a left leg contusion in the first half, the team announced. Doncic entered the night leading the NBA in scoring at a career-high 35.2 points per game,

File photo Count Celtics Star Jaylen Brown among those who aren’t ruling out a late-season return for Jayson Tatum. Brown expressed confidence this week that his longtime teammate could make it back from an Achilles tear sooner than expected, speaking during a livestream with DDG, as relayed by Souichi Terada of MassLive. “JT just always

File photo There’s a growing sense around the league that the Warriors may need more than a tweak to stop the slide. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Scott Ostler went a step further, suggesting Golden State consider trading Jonathan Kuminga and temporarily moving Draymond Green out of the starting lineup. The thinking is simple. Kuminga has

Lakers star Luka Doncic shoots in front of Clippers guard Kris Dunn in the first half of the Clippers’ 103-88 win Saturday night at Intuit Dome. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) When Luka Doncic sustained a left leg contusion and sat out the entire second half of a 103-88 loss to the Clippers at Intuit

The loudest ovation of Friday night’s 116-107 loss to the 76ers had nothing to do with the Knicks’ pregame celebration for winning the NBA Cup. 

For someone who impacts the game in so many different ways, it’s a rarity when OG Anunoby is a non-factor. 

File photo Timberwolves The Timberwolves still remember how last season ended, and on Friday night, they played like it. Anthony Edwards returned from a three-game injury absence and delivered when it mattered, scoring 26 points, grabbing 12 rebounds and drilling the go-ahead three with 38.5 seconds left to lift Minnesota past the defending champion Thunder,

The Oklahoma City Thunder won 24 of their first 25 games of the season. They’ve now lost two of their last three. The NBA’s top team took its third loss of the season in a thriller against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday, falling 112-107. Their record is 25-3, which still puts them on pace for

Getty From the outside, the vibes around the Cavaliers are not great. The losses are piling up, the consistency still isn’t there, and Cleveland is slipping down the East while dropping games it really should be winning. This is year four of the Core Four experiment, and fair or not, the Cavs (15-13) are nowhere