Orlando, Fla. – The Orlando Magic will team up with the WNBA, NBA and Orange County Parks and Recreation to inspire girls to play basketball through the Orlando Magic Youth Basketball Academy’s Her Time To Play all-girls youth clinic on Saturday, September 14, from 10:15 a.m. – 2:15 p.m. at the South Econ Rec Center (3850 S.…
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Magic have signed guard Josh Magette (mah-JET) to a two-way contract, President of Basketball Operations Jeff Weltman announced today. Per team policy, terms of the deals are not disclosed. Magette (6’1”, 160, 11/28/89) spent last season with Gran Canaria of the Spanish League and the EuroLeague. During the 2017-18 campaign,…
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Kawhi Leonard is planning meetings in Los Angeles. Kevin Durant will do the same in New York. Those are the cities where they’ll begin free agency. Where they will end it will finally start to get clearer soon. NBA teams will start opening their checkbooks Sunday at 6 p.m. EDT, when the negotiating window for…
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TORONTO (AP) — The Golden State Warriors relied on a champion’s heart to overcome their weary bodies. Klay Thompson scored 25 points before leaving with a hamstring injury, Stephen Curry had 23 and the Warriors ran off the first 18 points of the second half on the way to a 109-104 victory over the Toronto…
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TORONTO (AP) — Last time Kawhi Leonard played Golden State in the playoffs, he was running the Warriors off the floor. The only thing that stopped him that day was Zaza Pachulia’s foot, which Leonard landed on after taking a jumper in the third quarter of Game 1 of the 2017 Western Conference finals. Before…
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TORONTO (AP) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says he has already offered presumed No. 1 overall draft pick Zion Williamson advice on enjoying the process of entering the league. Silver, who appears on the latest episode of PodcastOne Sports Now with AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds, also says he sees no reason to intervene with the drama…
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TORONTO, Ca. (FNN SPORTS) – Now that the Toronto Raptors have clawed their way to the NBA Finals, more eyes are on the team than ever before, but more specifically on the team’s Superfan (and no, it’s not Drake): faithful fan and 67-year-old sikh Nav Bhati. Thanks to CNN journalist Muhammad Lila’s Twitter thread unfolding Bhati’s…
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks found another gear after their first loss of the playoffs. Kyrie Irving and the Boston Celtics just couldn’t keep up. Antetokounmpo had 20 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, and the Bucks routed the Celtics 116-91 on Wednesday night to advance to the Eastern Conference final.…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wants half of all new referees joining the league to be women — and he would like to see teams hire female coaches, too. In an appearance Thursday for The Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Silver said two of the past five refs added from the developmental G-League…
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ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – Florida’s 46th Governor Ron DeSantis (R), First Lady Casey DeSantis and former NBA star Tracy McGrady were spotted sitting courtside at Friday night’s Orlando Magic playoff game against the Toronto Raptors at Amway Center in Orlando. Prior to tipoff, Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins presented Governor DeSantis with a custom-made…
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The question posed to Pete Buttigieg — gay, married and…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be in Washington Thursday to meet…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal court in San Francisco took the unusual step of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump irritably defended himself Friday against an intelligence whistleblower’s potentially…
ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN NEWS) - Orange County's Environmental Protection Division is celebrating National Pollution Prevention…
ORLANDO, F.L. — On a press call Thursday afternoon, the Florida Democratic Party and the…
Chicago, IL. – This week, Governor Ron DeSantis met with Chicago leaders in the financial…
ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN NEWS) - To celebrate the commencement of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September…
