A week after the NBA Draft, the league’s veterans step into the spotlight. The NBA’s silly season continues with the official opening of the free agent period. As usual, players with ties to North Carolina […]
CHARLOTTE — Despite trailing the Pelicans for much of Monday night, the Hornets closed out the game on a 19-8 run to pick up their fifth consecutive victory in a 106-103 win at Spectrum Center. […]
J.J. Redick, the sharpshooter who was The Associated Press college player of the year at Duke before embarking on a 15-season NBA career, announced his retirement Tuesday. The 37-year-old Redick played with six NBA teams […]
CHARLOTTE — The New Orleans Pelicans aren’t ready to concede a spot in the play-in tournament just yet. Eric Bledsoe had 24 points and 11 assists, Jaxson Hayes added 18 points and six blocks and […]
A federal judge in North Carolina has ruled in favor of New Orleans Pelicans player Zion Williamson in a case concerning a contract he terminated with a Florida-based marketing agent who is seeking $100 million […]
CHARLOTTE — LaMelo Ball grew up playing 3-on-3 games against his older brother Lonzo on a concrete court in the backyard of their parents’ home in Chino Hills, California. “Nobody took it easy on me […]
NEW ORLEANS — Zion Williamson expects to unleash a version of himself that is healthier, more demonstrative and less restrained in his second NBA season with the New Orleans Pelicans. “Year 1 was a lot […]
KINSTON — Brandon Ingram has not forgotten where he — quite literally — came from. “Brandon was born in this hospital, in 1997,” Robert Enders, the CEO of Kinston’s hospital, Lenoir UNC Health Care, said […]
NEW ORLEANS — Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson credits his mother’s wisdom with helping him manage life’s unanticipated twists and inevitable assortment of successes and setbacks. It has served the NBA’s top overall draft choice well […]
MIAMI — A Florida appeals court has granted Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson’s motion to block his former marketing agent’s effort to have the ex-Duke star answer questions about whether he received improper benefits before playing […]
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