A steady trickle of cancellations and other disruptions in the sports world caused by the coronavirus outbreak erupted into an avalanche on Wednesday, with the N.B.A. abruptly suspending its season and the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament and other events barring most spectators. A major tennis tournament was also in doubt. The N.B.A. acted after a player […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. There have been three coaching changes in the N.B.A. this season. New York teams have accounted for two of them. It’s just the third time in their N.B.A. histories that the Knicks and the Nets have made changes on the […] More
Penny Toler, the former general manager of the Los Angeles Sparks, is suing the W.N.B.A. team, saying she was fired for raising complaints about inappropriate sexual relationships involving the team president and a managing partner, not for using a racial slur. The Sparks fired Toler on Oct. 4, about two weeks after a profane postgame […] More
A Missouri inmate whose appeal of his 50-year sentence for burglary and assault has been backed by the W.N.B.A. star Maya Moore had his conviction overturned by a state judge on Monday. Before a packed courtroom in Jefferson City, Judge Daniel Green capped months of review by issuing a ruling that vacated the guilty verdict […] More
In wins over the Clippers and the Bucks, the Lakers looked like the team to beat and James looked like an M.V.P. More
Knicks rookie RJ Barrett was in the midst of one of the best games of his career and he was doing it at Madison Square Garden against the Houston Rockets, a potential finals team. The crowd ate up his creative finishes at the rim, including one late in the fourth quarter that sent the Garden […] More
Kenny Atkinson is no longer the head coach of the Nets, the team unexpectedly announced on Saturday. “After discussions with Kenny about the progress of the season, we mutually agreed that a coaching change would be in the best interest of the team,” General Manager Sean Marks said in a statement. “This was an extremely […] More
It was Stephen Curry vs. Kyle Lowry again Thursday night, as the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Toronto Raptors in their first matchup since last year’s N.B.A. finals. The game went back and forth, and just like in the series-clinching Game 6 of the finals at Oracle Arena, the Raptors prevailed in the […] More
