The Liberty traded Tina Charles, a veteran All-Star center, to the Washington Mystics as part of a three-team deal on Wednesday, just days before they are widely expected to select Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu with the top pick in the W.N.B.A. draft. The Liberty received the 12th pick in this year’s W.N.B.A. draft from Washington as […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. We passed the one-month marker without N.B.A. basketball on Saturday. Playoff games were supposed to start this Saturday, but no one can say yet how soon, or even if, they will happen in 2020. It nonetheless feels appropriate, 35 days […] More
This biographical documentary leaves viewers wondering to what degree Lloyd Daniels has come to terms with his past. More
Oklahoma City Thunder Coach Billy Donovan invited about 1,000 people into his home recently while still practicing social distancing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Through videoconferencing, Donovan, 54, gave instruction for more than 80 minutes on the Coaches Clinic site, discussing his offensive philosophy and answering questions submitted to a moderator — all from […] More
In the final seconds of Game 4 of the 2012 W.N.B.A. finals, Tamika Catchings’s Indiana Fever were comfortably ahead of the Minnesota Lynx, poised to win their first championship. But even with her team up by 9, Catchings stayed with Minnesota’s Maya Moore as she drove up the floor, defending right to the final buzzer […] More
As a student at George Washington University, Ben Metcalf worked as a Washington Wizards ball boy for the same two seasons that the Wizards employed a shooting guard named Michael Jordan. Soon after, Metcalf was an intern in the Orlando Magic video room when they beat the Knicks on opening night — and then lost […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Asterisks have long been a fickle form of punctuation in the N.B.A. They tend to be subjectively attached to certain championships and, even then, don’t always stick. Some of the loudest asterisk talk in league history followed the San Antonio […] More
Kobe Bryant leads one of the most highly anticipated player classes ever for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame alongside three other superstars from the N.B.A. and W.N.B.A. who defined the sport over the first two decades of this century. Bryant, the former Los Angeles Lakers star who died on Jan. 26 in a […] More
