Lakers’ Avery Bradley dealing with hairline fracture in right leg

Milwaukee guard Eric Bledsoe says an injury to his left hand didn’t affect his play in the Bucks’ Game 5 loss to the Boston Celtics. Bledsoe’s left thumb and hand were wrapped after the 92-87 loss on Tuesday night. Bledsoe said Tuesday he hurt the hand during Game 4 on Sunday, but that

All-Star forward Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets has tested positive for the coronavirus and is quarantining in his native Serbia, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. Jokic is expected to return to Denver long before the team leaves for the Disney complex for the restart of the NBA season next month, said the person who spoke to Sports Betting News on Tuesday on condition of anonymity because neither the player nor the team acknowledged the positive test publicly. ESPN and The Denver Post previously reported Jokic’s positive test, which came on the same day that another top Serbian athlete – Novak Djokovic, the world’s top-ranked men’s tennis player – revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for the virus.