Basketball News · LatestThursday, May 28, 2026

Caitlin Clark is probable for the Fever's game against the Valkyries Thursday and her appearance on the injury report will likely be a familiar sight.

Olivia Miles could hardly have found a better place to launch her WNBA career. The Minnesota Lynx might well have landed their latest franchise player. In a season of transition and transformation across the league, coach Cheryl Reeve and the Lynx have shrugged off the loss of a big chunk of their formidable 2025 team to start 5-2 and take sole possession of first place after a surgical victory over Atlanta on Wednesday.

Josh Okogie is a free agent after his contract expired with the Houston Rockets.

The league is expanding the NBA Draft Lottery to 16 teams and reducing odds for the bottom three teams, among other changes.

Following the 2026 NBA Draft early entry deadline, we now know exactly which prospects are turning pro and which players decided to return to college.

Federal prosecutors allege Terry Rozier agreed to a $100,000 bribe in order to manipulate his performance in an NBA game as part of a gambling scheme and filed two new charges against him Thursday.

Antetokounmpo has several teams he would be interested in playing for, but the Cavs may not be one of them.

The NBA has a new set of draft lottery rules which they hope will curb tanking.

Rounding up all Warriors and NBA related news for Thursday, May 28th.

All the Celtics news you need in one convenient place.

USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino called USMNT attacker Christian Pulisic "a special player," and says he's confident that the player will end his goal drought at the World Cup.

Former USA goalkeeper Tony Meola joined First Things First to break down the goalkeeper battle between Matt Freese and Matt Turner.

The Thunder will try to eliminate the Spurs in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals.

The Connecticut Sun have had a terrible start to the 2026 WNBA season with a dismal 1-8 record. After getting […]

If anything, the Knicks have provided a glimpse of the attention that could follow if Glenn and the Jets find a way to create some magic of their own.

Barcelona star Pedri has firmly shut down any speculation regarding a future move away from Catalonia ahead of the upcoming World Cup.

Which World Cup host nation will win go furthest in the tournament? Here are the latest odds.

Lacan won a silver medal playing for her home country of France at the Paris Olympics and was selected to last year's Associated Press All-Rookie team when she averaged 10.4 points, 3.7 assists, and 2.2 steals in 25 games with Connecticut. The Sun took Lacan with the No. 10 draft pick in the 2024 WNBA draft and she's just returning to the U.S. after leading Basket Landes to this year's La Boulangère Wonderligue title. Lacan also was named the finals MVP.

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever are on the road to face the Golden State Valkyries on Thursday night. Indiana's last game was a 90-82 victory over Golden State on Friday night, with Clark posting game highs in points (22) and assists (9). Tiffany Hayes not only led the Valkyries in points (19), but the 5-foot-10 guard also showed she was not going to back down from the Fever's superstar guard.

Detroit player-coach Dave DeBusschere called “tails” at the very first version of the draft lottery in 1966, which was a coin flip between the Pistons and the New York Knicks — the worst teams in the Eastern and Western Divisions that season. The coin flip remained in place through 1984, with the two worst teams letting “heads” or “tails” decide who got the No. 1 selection. The lottery has been changed many times since that first coin flip, including Thursday with the introduction of a bigger...

It will go into effect starting next draft (when there would have been less tanking anyway, but take a victory lap).

Pochettino, who began his tenure as the USMNT's head coach in the fall of 2024, is out of contract after the World Cup

For the second time this WNBA season, Hailey Van Lith has been waived. This time it was by the Connecticut Sun.

This is a sneaky move by the Tempo.

Former 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings compared his addition to the Minnesota Vikings to 16-time All-Star Kevin Durant joining the Warriors.

Can the Lakers find the big they need through the NBA Draft?

The New York Knicks are on a historic playoff run. If they can get four more wins — and get them quickly — they would take their place up near the Lakers of Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, or the Stephen Curry-Kevin Durant Warriors, among the NBA's dominant postseason powerhouses. If they fall to Oklahoma City or San Antonio in the NBA Finals, they risk being remembered as a team that feasted on a weak East, that won a bunch of games right up until the ones that mattered most.

Kevin O'Connor is joined by Casey Powell (CP The Fanchise) & Jonathan Macri (Knicks Film School) to break down the New York Knicks' historic path to the NBA Playoffs.

Jozy Altidore says U.S. team can win a World Cup.

There's no rest for the weary as INDYCAR heads to the streets of Detroit fresh off a fantastic Indy 500 finish. Here's what to know.