Brooklyn

D’Angelo Russell scored 34 points, LeBron James added 28 and the Los Angeles Lakers routed the Portland Trail Blazers 134-110.

Victor Wembanyama is the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, headed to San Antonio with enormous expectations to become basketball’s newest sensation.

Joel Embiid was lucky not to have been ejected for kicking a Nets player in the groin area, blocked a potential tying basket as the Philadelphia 76ers beat Brooklyn 102-97

Kevin Durant’s time in Brooklyn has ended. The Nets agreed to trade him to the Phoenix Suns, a person with knowledge of the details says.

Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night. He was 94.

The NBA has postponed Brooklyn’s game scheduled for Thursday at Portland because the coronavirus-ravaged Nets do not have the league-minimum eight players available for the contest.

Brooklyn's James Harden has committed to playing for U.S. men's national basketball team that will play in the Olympics that begin next month.

Kevin Durant back from a 23-game absence was perfect in shooting, scoring 17 points sparking the Brooklyn Nets’ 139-111 rout of the New Orleans Pelicans.

The Nets now have their longest winning streak since moving from New Jersey to Brooklyn. Kyrie Irving had 27 points in the Nets’ eighth consecutive win, a 129-92 over the Magic.

New Orleans forward Zion Williamson now can be called an NBA All-Star, and only three others in the game’s 70-year history have gotten there at a younger age.