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The Washington Wizards announced Saturday that they have acquired forward C.J. Miles from Memphis in exchange for center Dwight Howard.

The Washington Wizards have lost 15 of 19 games on the road, including losses at Cleveland and Atlanta — teams with a combined 17 wins in 66 games, a winning percentage of .258.

Maryland big men Jalen Smith and Bruno Fernando are ranked 31st and 75th, respectively, among the top 100 NBA prospects, according to ESPN.

By Don Markus

Dec 12, 2018

Two memorial scholarships at Edgewood High School are named for a student basketball star and a former teacher, coach and athletic director. Their families accepted the honors during the school's annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony Friday.

UMBC guard Jairus Lyles played in the Utah Jazz's summer league, hitting 3-pointers off the bench.

By Katherine Fominykh

Jul 12, 2018

Coming off a career-best season, Baltimore native Will Barton looks forward to a leadership role and playing LeBron James in the 2018-19 NBA season.

By Katherine Fominykh

Jul 5, 2018

One day out, it seems like Maryland guard Kevin Huerter will end up as a mid-to-late first-round pick in the 2018 NBA Draft. Forward Justin Jackson, who struggled last season due to injury, is likely to be a second round pick.

By Katherine Fominykh

Jun 20, 2018

Former UMBC guard Jairus Lyles is hoping that the attention he received at the end of his college career will catapult him into a professional career, possibly in the NBA.

By Don Markus

May 22, 2018

The Washington Wizards waived point guard Donald Sloan and retained wing Carrick Felix on Saturday, according to several sources familiar with the move. The

Digest: Mystics lose Elena Delle Donne for 2-3 weeks with thumb injury

Digest: Wizards' Ian Mahinmi to miss start of postseason

Otto Porter Jr. made six 3-pointers, finished with 25 points and eight rebounds, and the Washington Wizards won their fourth straight, a 111-98 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night.

Evgeny Kuznetsov scored twice, Alex Ovechkin had a goal and an assist and the Capitals beat the host Devils, 5-2, on Thursday night to head into the All-Star break with the most points in the NHL.

Rudy Gay, an Archbiship Spalding graduate who has gone on to a 10-year NBA career, could miss the rest of the season with a suspected torn left Achilles tendon.

Tony Donatelli scored two goals and the visiting Blast earned a 6-3 win over the Syracuse Silver Knights on Thursday night.

C. Milton Wright graduate Amanda Barnes was named the first head coach at East Carolina.

Maryland point guard Melo Trimble won¿t decide until Wednesday¿s deadline whether to return to College Park for his junior year or remain in the NBA draft.

By Don Markus

May 23, 2016

Of the four Maryland players at this week¿s NBA combine in Chicago, forward Robert Carter Jr. might have had the most to prove.

By Don Markus

May 12, 2016

The Washington Wizards have agreed to a one-year deal worth approximately $2.1 million with guard Gary Neal, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

Defenseman Mike Green signed a three-year, $18 million contract with the Detroit Red Wings, according to reports, formally closing the door on his tenure with the Washington Capitals.

Wells still is unlikely to be picked in the two-round draft June 25 but it seems his chances improve each time he steps on a practice court for an NBA team.

By Don Markus

Jun 11, 2015

On Sunday, Drexel transfer Damion Lee (Calvert Hall) announced that he had cut his list of schools that he is still considering to five: Arizona, Gonzaga, Louisville, Marquette and Maryland.

By Don Markus

Apr 14, 2015

Joey Sankey had four goals for the Tar Heels (11-1, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference). The host Cavaliers fell to 8-3, 0-3.

After spending much of eight seasons coaching doomed teams, Wittman is finally overseeing a roster primed to win.

The expectations have been raised, perhaps higher than they've been in a decade. The roster has been bolstered, with the additions of aging superstar Paul Pierce and blue-collar power forward DeJuan Blair. Are the Washington Wizards for real, or was last season just a nasty tease for the team's long-suffering fans?

By Don Markus

Oct 19, 2014

On Friday he is to be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, a greying icon of a long-gone professional league that introduced the tri-colored ball and the 3-point shot. That's where Bob "Slick" Leonard won acclaim.

Now 23 years old, Ian Chiles -- a 7-foot-2, 260-pound center at Morgan State for the last four seasons -- has spent the past month and a half practicing jump shots in workouts for teams as he prepares for Thursday's NBA draft.

Baltimore Ravens tight end Owen Daniels, 31, has had a longtime affinity for meteorology and the weather — a fact that's mostly unbeknown to many of his teammates.

A day after he won the Preakness, California Chrome's trainer Art Sherman said that a New York rule prohibiting nasal strips 'might be an issue' for his horse in the Belmont Stakes.

All the Preakness news ahead of Saturday's race

"I don't know if we ran out of gas or what, but we didn't have the same confidence .. to try to increase the lead," Drew Gooden said.

Recapping the Baltimore Ravens' draft and resetting the Orioles roster with Matt Wieters on the disabled list

Paul George scored a game-high 39 points, 28 in the second half, to help the Pacers take a 3-1 lead in this best-of-seven series.

Matt Wieters found out he will not need elbow surgery last night as the Orioles won 4-3 in Tampa Bay

Bradley Beal scored a game-high 25 points and Trevor Ariza had 22 as the Wizards won their fourth straight road game in the playoffs and took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.

Gary Williams has officially received his hall pass, being named one of the 2014 inductees for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Monday afternoon.

Former Baltimore Bullets coach Bob "Slick" Leonard, the winningest coach in American Basketball History Association, on Friday was named one of the first members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's Class of 2014.

Half a century ago, the Baltimore Bullets came into the world without much fuss. There was no parade for the city's new National Basketball Association team. The opening night crowd fell far short of a sellout. And the Bullets bowed meekly to the world champion Boston Celtics, as they would the first nine times they played them.

Brothers Tim Connelly (Denver Nuggets), Pat Connelly (Phoenix Suns), Joe Connelly (Washington Wizards) and Dan Connelly (Utah Jazz) grew up in Baltimore's Roland Park neighborhood and now work for NBA franchises.

Alex Len sat down with ESPN's Jalen Rose and Bill Simmons for a mock job interview as part of Grantland's The Full NBA Job Interview series.

Like your basketball rough? Then you must be loving the NBA playoffs, where the physical play is now officially ridiculous, to the point where it¿s making a mockery of the game.

What was supposed to be a rousing sendoff for the U.S. team playing its last game on American soil before continuing its pre-Olympic tour later this week in England, turned into an embarrassing first quarter that saw Brazil take a 10-point lead amid an assortment of missed dunks, errant jump shots and porous defense by their more famous counterparts.

It's not easy to hide a 7-footer, but Travis Hyman went unnoticed at Bowie State

A few Harford County athletes who were left off The Sun's top 175 in Maryland certainly should have merited more consideration, Aegis writer says.