‘Reversal of fortune’ puts Mavs on path to Flagg
NBA, Sports
June 24, 2025
The NBA Draft will be held Wednesday with Cooper Flagg appearing to be headed to Dallas. DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks CEO Rick Welts wasn’t thinking even for a second about Cooper Flagg when he star...
Thunder may be just getting started with first title
NBA, Sports
June 24, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The promise came three years ago from Oklahoma City general manager Sam Presti. It might have been overlooked for a couple of reasons. One, the Thunder were awful at the time. Two...
NBA, Sports
June 24, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The gasp inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse was followed quickly by a hush Sunday night. Just seven minutes into Game 7 of the NBA Finals, the Indiana Pacers’ roaring fans went silent, s...
NBA Draft will have tons of international talent
NBA, Sports
By By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer 
June 24, 2025
There’s no Victor Wembanyama in the class headed to the NBA draft this week. There’s no Zaccharie Risacher, either. For the first time since 2022, the first pick in the draft will not be someone from ...
NBA, Sports
By By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer 
June 23, 2025
The Suns will get Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks and several draft picks in return. The Houston Rockets are acquiring 15-time All-Star and four-time Olympic gold medalist Kevin Durant from the Phoenix Sun...
Game 7 memories captivate whole sports world
NBA, Sports
June 23, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night had a number of sports celebrities — from outside the basketball world, even — thinking of one player. Kobe Bryant. Bryant played in only ...
Pacers and Thunder both relishing extra rest
NBA, Sports
June 18, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Given the way Indiana guard Tyrese Haliburton was limping on his way out of the postgame news conference after Game 5 of the NBA Finals, it’s safe to assume he’s a fan of the sched...
Williams scores 40 as Thunder take 3-2 lead
NBA, Sports
June 17, 2025
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander contributed 31 points in OKC’s 120-109 victory. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Game 5 was starting to look like Game 1 all over again. Oklahoma City, at home, takes a huge lead. Indiana ...
Magic trade for Bane; Adams re-signs in Houston
NBA, Sports
By By TIM REYNOLDS AP 
June 16, 2025
The Orlando Magic are acquiring Desmond Bane from Memphis in a deal that sends Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony and draft capital to the Grizzlies, a person with knowledge of the agreement said ...
Caruso stepping up for OKC in ‘Robin’ role
NBA, Sports
June 16, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Alex Caruso got asked after Game 4 of the NBA Finals if he’s aware that he’s achieved a level of superhero- type status among fans of the Oklahoma City Thunder during this playoff...
Pacers rally in the 4th, beat Thunder for series lead
NBA, Sports
WEDNESDAY’S LATE GAME
June 13, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Every time Indiana has lost a game in the last three months, it simply has come back to win the next one. Even in the NBA Finals — against a huge favorite who the Pacers now have i...
WPIAL product McConnell leads surge for Pacers’ bench
NBA, Sports
June 13, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — TJ McConnell stole inbounds passes not once, not twice, but three times in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. He waved his arms, pumped his fists and shouted at an already delirious crowd t...
It’s clear, moment isn’t too big for Thunder’s SGA
NBA, Sports
By By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer 
June 10, 2025
The moment is clearly not too big for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. These are his first NBA Finals. It’s hard to remember that sometimes. The Oklahoma City Thunder star — and NBA MVP — just had a pair of d...
Haliburton caps rally with gamewinner for Pacers
NBA, Sports
THURSDAY’S LATE GAME
June 7, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tyrese Haliburton and the never-say-die Indiana Pacers pulled off yet another last-second comeback, this time on the NBA’s biggest stage. Haliburton’s 21-foot jumper with 0.3 seco...
Mr. Clutch: Tyrese Haliburton keeps delivering
NBA, Sports
June 7, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — You are Tyrese Haliburton. You went to the Eastern Conference finals last year and got swept. You went to the Olympics last summer and didn’t play much. You came into this season ...
Thunder rule: Players must learn what bombing meant to OKC
NBA, Sports
June 7, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Isaiah Hartenstein was born in 1998, three years after Oklahoma City changed forever. It was April 19, 1995, when a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in Oklahoma Cit...
How the Pacers pulled off their stunning comeback
NBA, Sports
June 7, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The game plan was the obvious one. Just chip away, the Indiana Pacers said, because there was no other option that would have made any sense at that point. They were down by 15 wi...
NBA, Sports
June 4, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Thibodeau just took the New York Knicks to the Eastern Conference finals, the deepest playoff march in 25 years for a franchise that reemerged as a contender after he became their ...
Daigneault knows how to win championships
NBA, Sports
By By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer 
June 3, 2025
Oklahoma City’s Mark Daigneault has the best record of any coach in the NBA this season. And he has the second-best record of any coach in his house. Daigneault is a coach, and a coach’s husband, too....
Pacers look to overcome snake-bitten history
NBA, Sports
June 3, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Pacers have finally ended the franchise’s 25-year NBA Finals drought, achieving the unthinkable after starting 1015 and looking like anything but a title contender. Now Indiana...