Fans hoping to attend the official memorial for the late N.B.A. superstar Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, in Los Angeles this month will face a difficult time obtaining tickets, and they might have to spend big. A “limited number of tickets” will be on sale to the public on Tuesday for as much as […] More
MILWAUKEE — Pat Connaughton has crammed enough high-flying acrobatics into his drives down the lane as a reserve guard for the Bucks that he was invited to compete in Saturday’s slam dunk contest at N.B.A. All-Star weekend. He loves playing for the Bucks. He loves playing for them so much, in fact, that he is […] More
Snoop Dogg apologized on Wednesday to Gayle King, the lead anchor of “CBS This Morning,” after criticizing her over a recent interview in which she brought up a 2003 rape allegation against Kobe Bryant. Last week, Ms. King was subjected to a social media backlash in which her critics pointed to an excerpt from her […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Amid the havoc wreaked by three trades he made last week, involving seven other teams and 23 players, Gersson Rosas of the Minnesota Timberwolves missed one of the most important news bulletins of his professional life. Three days before the […] More
“The New York Knicks are the premier global brand in basketball, period,” Steve Stoute, a music executive and the founder of the ad agency Translation, declared recently over breakfast. That night, the Knicks were blown out at home by the Memphis Grizzlies. Fans at Madison Square Garden chanted “Sell the team!” at James L. Dolan, […] More
LOS ANGELES — Among his many pregame duties whenever the Houston Rockets are on the road, Tony Nila scrawls each player’s nickname on a strip of masking tape and affixes it to the top of that player’s locker. Nila, the team’s equipment manager, refers to Russell Westbrook as “Why Not.” Tyson Chandler goes by “OG.” […] More
Fears of an underwhelming N.B.A. trade deadline were washed away on Thursday, when 11 separate deals came to fruition before the league’s 3 p.m. Eastern time buzzer. Further fears that the most significant action of the week would belong to Major League Baseball — after the Los Angeles Dodgers’ deal with the Boston Red Sox […] More
Leon Rose, an N.B.A. agent at Creative Artists Agency, will take over as the Knicks’ team president, a person with knowledge of the team’s plans who was not authorized to discuss them publicly said on Thursday. While Rose does not have experience in basketball operations, he has a deep well of connections to star players, […] More
