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Luka Doncic on Trying to Bring an N.B.A. Team to Rome

Luka Doncic on Trying to Bring an N.B.A. Team to Rome

'I never thought he'd grow up to be the player he ...

THERE WAS A time not long ago, when Jalen Brunson questioned all the same things about himself that his critics did. His size, his athleticism, his talent. Becky Hammon hadn't even been asked about whether a stocky, 6-foot-2 point guard could really be the best player on a New York Knicks team with championship aspirations, let alone one that's two wins away from the franchise's first title since 1973 as the NBA Finals continue tonight from Madison Square Garden at 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC.

Embrace of Wemby as face of the NBA proves resistance toward Jokic was always racial | Bobby Burack

Nikola Jokic has been the best basketball player in the world this decade. He has put forth one of the most statistically dominant stretches in the history of the sport. He is a three-time MVP and an NBA champion.

Knicks try to ignore hoopla, focus on G3 at MSG

NEW YORK -- If the day before Madison Square Garden's first NBA Finals game since June 25, 1999, was any indication, Monday's Game 3 between the Spurs and Knicks will be a madhouse. On Sunday, rappers and Knicks fans Jadakiss and Fat Joe sat in the back of Mike Brown's news conference, with the latter -- a sneaker aficionado -- teasing the Knicks coach about his footwear choices during games. Actor Ben Stiller was there, too, recording Brown on his phone, just as he has documented many...

NBA-NBA Europe on schedule for 2027 launch, Silver says

NBA-NBA Europe on schedule for 2027 launch, Silver says June 3 : NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league remains on schedule to launch NBA Europe in October 2027, with final bids for permanent franchises due by the end of June and awards expected as soon as autumn. The league has seen record interest in the proposed competition and the NBA is working closely with FIBA on the project, which would mark the league's most ambitious international expansion, Silver told a press conference...

Grading bold preseason predictions for all 30 NBA ...

Before this NBA season began, I made 30 bold but realistic predictions, one for each team. In retrospect, some of them made me look prescient and smart. So as the 2025-26 season winds down and the offseason approaches, it's a good time to reflect on those scattered prognoses.

Passan: How could an MLB salary cap work? Lessons ...

Four days after Major League Baseball officially proposed a salary-cap system to the MLB Players Association for the first time in more than three decades of labor negotiations, union interim executive director Bruce Meyer held a 40-minute teleconference in which he summed up the players' position on the overhaul the league wants to implement. "The cap system they propose is not just bad for all the reasons that we believe cap systems are always bad," Meyer said, "but they've effectively...