Here’s the latest on the 2021 NBA Draft. The 2021 NBA Draft is finally here. After a full year of evaluating this class, the next generation of NBA players are about to learn where they will begin their careers. You can watch the 2021 NBA Draft at 8 p.m. ET on ABC, ESPN and the ESPN App. We did our first mock draft for this class the ... read more

Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images Annemiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands and Slovenia’s Primož Roglič both found the glory they were looking for in Tokyo. When Annemiek van Vleuten crossed the finish line in the women’s road race on Sunday, she thought she had won gold only to later find out that Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer had actually arrived one minute earlier. A silver medal at ... read more

Photo by Pim Waslander/BSR Agency/Getty Images Never, ever give up. A lot of the Olympic profiles you’ll read ahead of Tokyo highlight athletes dominating their sports from young ages, destined for success, looking to cement their legacies at the 2021 games. Things are a little different for 39-year-old Irish rower Sanita Puspure, an inspiration to anyone who saw a dream, watched it slip away, and did everything ... read more

How Sharife Cooper grew into the 2021 NBA Draft’s most electric playmaker. Sharife Cooper spent the longest 72 days of his life wondering when he’d finally be able to get back on the basketball court. He had just started playing five-on-five again upon arriving at Auburn after being locked out of gyms as the pandemic swept through the country in the months following his legendary high school ... read more

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images There’s more to being a role model than just competing. Simone Biles, the world’s greatest gymnast and leader of USA’s women’s all-around team, withdrew from the event Tuesday morning. The official statement from USA Gymnastics was that Biles withdrew from the event due to a “medical concern,” with NBC saying during the broadcast that Biles was leaving the event due to a ... read more

Photo by Ulrik Pedersen/NurPhoto via Getty Images Count out Simone Biles at your peril. The icon. The innovator. The phenom. Simone Biles has been dominating the world of international gymnastics since bursting onto the scene in 2013. Now, at the age of 24, Biles is in Tokyo to defend Olympic gold. At an age where most gymnasts are slowing down, she’s getting even better. It was unclear ... read more

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images We want your input in our newest team site. Hello Seattle! You may have heard about us — the sport with the ice and the frozen rubber disk, guys with no front teeth, gratuitous punching, and weird phrases like wheel, snipe, and celly. NHL hockey is officially in Washington! To celebrate the forming of the Seattle Kraken and to kick off ... read more

THIS is what the Olympics are all about Tunisian swimmer Ahmed Hafnaoui stunned the world on Sunday when the 18-year-old won the gold medal in the 400m freestyle. The only thing better than seeing a shocking medal in the pool was witnessing his family react to it. Look. At. This.Ahmed Hafnaoui's family back in #TUN react as the teenager wins 400m #swimming gold at the ... read more

Photo by Bai Yu/CHINASPORTS/VCG via Getty Images Swimming’s greatest rivalry was incredible in Tokyo. Katie Ledecky is the most accomplished swimmer of her generation, but even she was left to recognize the greatness of what happened. Ariarne Titmus had come from behind on the last leg to deal Ledecky her first ever individual defeat on the Olympic stage. The 400-meter freestyle competition had started according to plan. ... read more

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Japan’s new guard of skaters are dominating at the games. What were you doing when you were 13? Trying to establish your taste in music? Becoming a teenage terror for your parents? Japan’s Momiji Nishiya just won her first Olympic gold medal, becoming the first woman to win an Olympic skateboarding medal, the youngest athlete in Japanese history to medal, and one ... read more