3-point trio: This matchup features three of the top 12 players in 3-pointers made this season: Golden State’s Steph Curry leads the league (164), while Minnesota’s Donte DiVincenzo (137) and Anthony Edwards (125) rank sixth and 12th, respectively.

So begins the back half of the NBA regular season. Before that familiar sequence of trade deadline into All-Star break, we get a return of the Saturday showcase format. ABC opens its triple-header window this weekend, with “Inside the NBA” and all its strange revelry for studio intermissions.

The NBA announced the schedule for this year's NBA Finals in June, with ABC broadcasting each of the contests.

The San Antonio Spurs (30-13) take a three-game winning streak into their first visit of the season to the Houston Rockets (25-15) on Tuesday night at the Toyota Center, where the Rockets are 3-1 as they wrap up a five-game homestand.

U.S. immigration agents shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis on Saturday, officials said, sparking fierce protests and