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The NBA's fine for tossing a basketball into the stands appears to be $25,000 -- whether the throw is made in anger or in celebration. The league docked Los Angeles Clippers guard Patrick Beverley that amount Wednesday, a day after he threw a ball into the crowd at the end of his team's season-opening, 112-102 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Last December, Beverley also was fined $25,000 for a similar incident. Continue to Article

October 23, 2019 8:06:pm EST

The NBA's fine for tossing a basketball into the stands appears to be $25,000 -- whether the throw is made in anger or in celebration. The league docked Los Angeles Clippers guard Patrick Beverley that amount Wednesday, a day after he threw a ball into the crowd at the end of his team's season-opening, 112-102 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Last December, Beverley also was fined $25,000 for a similar incident. Continue to Article

October 23, 2019 7:59:pm EST

Even though he does two separate media scrums every time he addresses reporters, one in English and then one in Japanese, Wizards rookie Rui Hachimura is a man of few words. As he looked ahead to his first NBA game - Wednesday at the Dallas Mavericks (8:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Washington) - in which he will be in the starting lineup, he didn't say much more than he is "excited." He said his mother is expected to be in attendance, but he won't be nervous. The Wizards' All-Star shooting guard shared his first impressions of Hachimura, the Wizards' 2019 first round pick, in an interview with NBC Sports Washington. Continue to Article

October 22, 2019 6:49:pm EST

The 2019-20 NBA season opens Tuesday with 108 international players from 38 nations, including 16 Canadians a record for the most players from any non-US nation, the league announced. It is the sixth consecutive season the NBA has opened with more than 100 players from beyond US borders. The league set records with 113 global players from 42 non-US nations to begin the 2016-17 and 2017-18 campaigns. Continue to Article

October 22, 2019 12:52:pm EST

All we can do is guess who will win the conference this season and it could easily be an under-the-radar team like the Utah Jazz, who added Mike Conley and Bojan Bogdanovic. Here's what we think you can expect this season. Team on the rise: Dallas Mavericks Dallas improved a lot last year with Luka Doncic coming into the fold and now they will have a healthy Kristaps Porzingis. Continue to Article

October 21, 2019 7:11:pm EST