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The NIL Revolution | A Star Tribune series examining how the name, image and likeness era is transforming college sports: startribune.com/nil. . . . Sneakers for everybody. Fried chicken for lunch and profit. A haircut just like the pros get. The name, image and likeness (NIL) era is underway in high school sports, and the payoffs come in many forms. So do the adjustments. NIL's time arrived ...

DeMar DeRozan scored a game-high 27 points to lead Chicago to a road win over Minnesota, who got 22 points and 11 rebounds from Anthony Edwards in a costly loss.

Edwards went 0 of 5 from 3-point range against the Bulls. He is 0 of 13 in the last two games and just 6 of 26 in his last five games.

HoopsHype lists the Top 50 NBA players who made the most money and never made an All-NBA team.

It's not every game the man with the moniker "Slo-Mo" excites a crowd with his moves around the basket. That happened Wednesday night in the Timberwolves' 106-91 victory over the Detroit Pistons during the fourth quarter, when Kyle Anderson pulled off a couple of typically methodical, but sharp, changes of direction on his way to a layup that gave the Wolves a 14-point lead with 7 minutes, 34 ...

Phoenix went all-in to build a championship contender, but Kevin Durant and Co. are headed toward the play-in unless they can catch a rhythm down the stretch.

Early in Friday's fourth quarter against Cleveland, Timberwolves point guard Mike Conley and big man Naz Reid exchanged three-point shots, followed by Conley's field goal and blocked shot on 6-7 Georges Niang. Backup guard Jordan McLaughlin picked up the bouncing ball, pushed it down the floor and passed it to Reid, whose run to the rim with the ball ended with a stretching, one-handed dunk. ...

The NBA announced on Sunday that it has fined Minnesota center Rudy Gobert $100,000 after he made a gesture during a Friday night game that implied a referee was improperly influenced by gambling and making calls accordingly. After Gobert was called for a technical foul in the last few seconds of regulation, during the Timberwolves’…

The reigning NBA champion Denver Nuggets will no longer visit the White House to celebrate their title because of their hopes to take over the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.

The NBA fined Minnesota center Rudy Gobert $100,000 on Sunday, two days after he implied that referee Scott Foster was not calling games fairly and further suggesting that gambling is having a detrimental impact on the outcome of games. The fine is the maximum that the NBA could give under terms of the collective bargaining agreement that went into place last year, matching the $100,000 fine given to then-Philadelphia guard James Harden for his public trade demand last fall. Gobert was called fo