Second-year Cleveland Cavaliers forward Emoni Bates had a career day Sunday in the team's regular-season finale vs. the Indiana Pacers, coming off the bench to score 25 points in a 126-118 double ...

Bates closed Sunday's 126-118 double-overtime loss to the Pacers with 25 points (9-19 FG, 7-15 3Pt), six rebounds, two assists and one block across 42 minutes. Cleveland had already claimed the No ...

Emoni Bates has posted a message expressing regret about decommitting from Tom Izzo and Michigan State basketball nearly four years ago. Bates, 21, posted Thursday to his official Facebook page he ...

Emoni Bates has given back to the program that once helped him become a household name on the basketball court. The Cleveland Cavaliers forward donated $100,000 to the Bates Basketball Academy in ...

Emoni Bates has an apology for Michigan State fans. Once the top player ever recruited by Tom Izzo and Michigan State, Bates reopened his commitment the summer before his freshman year before ...

Michigan State men's basketball took a monumental hit in the spring of 2021 when it lost the commitment of one of its most highly touted commits in program history, Emoni Bates. The Spartans had ...

In hindsight, Bates appears to wish he’d done things differently. “To all my MSU people I love y’all and Coach Izzo!” Bates wrote on his Facebook page Thursday. “I was a 16 year old kid ...