Walton: Lakers to lock arms throughout season

It would be a tale for the ages if the Warriors could somehow pull off the same thing with Antetokounmpo as they did with Durant in 2016.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the NBA has become like ”a political organization,” criticizing the league the day after player protests over police brutality led to the postponement of playoff games. Senior White House aides earlier had suggested that the protests were not constructive and were hypocritical considering the league’s relative silence about human rights violations in China, where U.S. pro basketball has a large audience. The president said in a radio interview this month that NBA players were ”very nasty” and ”very dumb” for kneeling during the national anthem to protest social injustice.