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NEW YORK — Ugly, sloppy baseball.

Behind the eye-popping decline of scoring at the rim in the postseason.

Darvin Ham was formally confirmed as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday, the team announced in a statement. Ham, an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks, joins the franchise on a multiyear deal, the team said. The 48-year-old Ham was a key assistant to Bucks…

Milwaukee's Bobby Portis can become a free agent this offseason if he bypasses a $4.6 million player option for 2022-23, but there is already tangible resignation from some interested teams that they won't have any shot at luring Portis away from ...

Stephen Curry was excellent, and Jayson Tatum wasn’t. But Boston relied on its depth to spring a late charge and take Game 1 from the Warriors.

The playoffs as a whole have been underwhelming, but this is shaping up to be a great series.

When the NBA Finals begin Thursday in San Francisco, it will mark a return to familiar ground for Golden State’s championship-tested core of Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson.

ST. LOUIS — Best pals and often teammates since one was 5 and the other 4, Nolan Gorman and Matthew Liberatore had plenty of days together on a ballfield or traveling to another ballgame to dream about what they could someday do together in the majors.

ST. LOUIS — There was good news — and a snippet of old news for Cardinals right-hander Dakota Hudson Friday night.

Normally, when Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina hook up as a battery, some sort of record is broken or, at least being challenged. On Thursday night at Busch Stadium, the pair made their 313th start together, three games behind the second-place Milwaukee Braves duo of Warren Spahn and Del Crandall.

LOS ANGELES — Former Portland head coach Terry Stotts became the first candidate to meet with the Lakers in person Tuesday as the organization ramps up its search to replace Frank Vogel, sources confirmed to the Los Angeles Times.