There is the buzzkill element to all of this, sure.

The new-look 76ers were the ones celebrating by the end of the evening. 

Kyle MacLean has patiently waited the season’s first three weeks to get into the Islanders lineup.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 32 points and the Thunder opened their season with a 116-104 win over the Spurs.

Hurts originally was revealed to have played through a superficial blood clot. The diagnosis was modified this week to deep...