Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. The blockbuster trade on Jan. 31, 2019 that dispatched Kristaps Porzingis to the Dallas Mavericks from New York had much of the league reaching the same conclusion: The Knicks must know something. They quickly convinced countless rival teams that they […] More
For much of the last two decades, Steve Mills has been in the Knicks orbit, whether as a high-ranking executive with the Madison Square Garden Company or as the person in charge of basketball decisions for the franchise. It seemed that nothing could shake the faith of James L. Dolan, the team’s owner. Not a […] More
STORRS, Conn. — The postgame tableau at Gampel Pavilion, of a disappointed Geno Auriemma analyzing what went wrong, was unfamiliar. After his team’s 74-56 loss to Oregon on Monday night, Auriemma, the longtime coach of the UConn women’s basketball team, was left to analyze exactly why his team didn’t just lose on its campus court […] More
I was in a CVS in Harlem when I first heard the news. My friend James, who rarely, if ever, talks about sports, had sent me a one-word text message: “Kobe?” “Kobe what?” He said people were saying that Kobe Bryant had died. I shrugged it off. I figured it was just a false alarm […] More
Playing against Kobe Bryant for 17 years convinced Jason Terry of one thing: He needed to prepare zealously before coaching against him for the first time. So two weeks ahead of a January trip from Dallas to Southern California, Terry obtained video of Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy girls’ basketball team for film study. Then he […] More
A black student in Texas who was suspended because his high school said the way he wore his dreadlocks violated its dress code has been invited to the Oscars. The actress Gabrielle Union and the former N.B.A. champion Dwyane Wade, a married couple who were producers of “Hair Love,” an Oscar-nominated short animated film by […] More
LOS ANGELES — Nothing about the game was normal. Not the tributes. Not the chants. Not the emotion. Not the reflection. But before the Lakers could begin to move forward from the death of Kobe Bryant on Sunday, they needed to look back. Anthony Davis went back to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, when […] More
The N.B.A. has disciplined five players, including Elfrid Payton and Marcus Morris Sr. of the Knicks, in connection with a scuffle near the end of a game against the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. Payton was suspended for one game after a testy exchange and several shoves with less than one […] More
