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Three weeks after hitting a low point with a ''pathetic'' performance on Broadway, the Spurs hit a high note against the New York Knicks. LaMarcus Aldridge had 18 points and 11 rebounds, and San Antonio beat the Knicks 109-83 on Friday night to extend its season-best winning streak to seven games. ''It's more of a focus and them understanding that when we play good defense, we're a darn good team,'' Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. Continue to Article

March 16, 2019 12:29:am EST

LeBron James will miss the Los Angeles Lakers' trip to the Detroit Pistons having played in the previous 15 games. The Lakers said their star forward will not play against the Pistons due to "load management" with the groin injury that kept him out for a month earlier this season. The rest day comes a night after James played 31 minutes, 47 seconds in a loss at the Toronto Raptors, the second of a five-game road trip. Continue to Article

March 15, 2019 2:35:pm EST

Drake has been the celebrity face of the Toronto Raptors for the past several years. On Thursday, the Raptors revealed that its training facility would be named in honor of the rapper from Ontario. As part of their continued branding relationship between Drake and Toronto, the training facility was renamed the OVO Athletic Centre. Continue to Article

March 14, 2019 9:00:pm EST

The San Antonio Spurs are the hottest team in the NBA over the past three weeks and will look to stay that way when they host the stumbling New York Knicks on Friday at the AT&T Center. Despite San Antonio's recent success, its eight-game winning streak at home -- and the Knicks overall ineptitude this season -- the Spurs will have no problem focusing on New York. The Knicks beat San Antonio in the two teams' only other matchup this season 130-118 in the Big Apple on Feb. 24, in a game that the Spurs struggled defensively and basically failed to show up for. Continue to Article

March 14, 2019 1:54:pm EST

Former New York Knicks star Charles Oakley says team owner James Dolan is a "bully" for threatening to ban fans from Madison Square Garden. Oakley, a longtime NBA enforcer and rebounding machine, said Dolan was wrong to mouth off at a fan who told him to sell the team during a loss at MSG. It boiled over in 2017 when he was arrested after an altercation with security officials after they told him to leave his seat at the arena near Dolan. Continue to Article

March 12, 2019 1:40:pm EST

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