Friday night, the league raises the curtain on its first In-Season Tournament, an experiment in bringing a multiple-trophy tradition to the winner-take-all American sports landscape.
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Friday night, the league raises the curtain on its first In-Season Tournament, an experiment in bringing a multiple-trophy tradition to the winner-take-all American sports landscape.
On the legendary (and legendarily tempestuous) coach, who has died at age 83 In the hours after the news of Bobby Knight’s death at age 83, the polite euphemism machine was in predictable overdrive, the legendary chair-tossing college basketball coach generously eulogized as fiery, controversial, and of course, the mother of all posthumous genteelisms, complicated.
LeBron “Bronny” James, Jr., the 18-year-old son of basketball star LeBron James, was hospitalized on Monday after suffering cardiac arrest during a workout at the University of Southern California, where he is slated to join the Trojans’ basketball team this fall.
The Denver Nuggets beat the Miami Heat (94-89)on Monday night to win their first NBA championship after 47 years in the league.
The 2023 NBA Finals are, seemingly, a matchup of offense vs. defense. A team that ranked 10 spots higher on offense in the regular season (the Denver Nuggets) vs. a team that ranked 16 spots higher on defense (the Miami Heat). And for sure, the Nuggets’ end of the floor should be the more interesting one in regard to game-planning.
An incident Saturday in which a man allegedly shouted at WNBA star Brittney Griner at an airport in Dallas quickly became the vehicle for renewed demands by the players’ union for the league to provide more charter flights in the name of player safety.