David Joel Stern was born in Manhattan on Sept. 22, 1942. It was the day after Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, and the Nazi march east through Europe was grinding to a halt outside Stalingrad. Closer to home, the Dodgers topped the Giants, 9-8, in extra innings at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field. The Knicks, […] More
David Stern, who during a 30-year run as commissioner of the National Basketball Association masterminded its transformation from a league in peril to a multibillion-dollar industry and the first American sports league to thrive internationally, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 77. His death was announced in a statement from the N.B.A. Mr. Stern […] More
It’s a must this time of year: Let’s break out the crystal roundball to share eight more (almost) fearless predictions for the N.B.A. in 2020. Zion Williamson will make his official N.B.A. debut by the end of January — or else sitting out his entire rookie season becomes a real possibility. Although the initial projection […] More
It’s a must this time of year: Let’s break out the crystal roundball to share eight more (almost) fearless predictions for the N.B.A. in 2020. Zion Williamson will make his official N.B.A. debut by the end of January — or else sitting out his entire rookie season becomes a real possibility. Although the initial projection […] More
The New York Times is reflecting on the past decade in the N.B.A., which has evolved perhaps more than any other major sports league. The N.B.A. has been less bound to tradition than the other major sports leagues, embracing uniforms changes more so than the N.F.L. and embracing rules changes more readily than the M.L.B. […] More
MILWAUKEE — Kyle Korver watched the 2003 N.B.A. draft from his dorm room at Creighton University, where he was joined by friends and a television news crew that hovered in the doorway. LeBron James, as expected, went No. 1 to the Cleveland Cavaliers, but then the night began to drag for Korver. He began to […] More
The New York Times is reflecting on the past decade in the N.B.A., which has evolved perhaps more than any other major sports league. The last decade in the N.B.A. had something for everyone. New superstars emerged — Stephen Curry, Kawhi Leonard — and veterans like Ray Allen and Kobe Bryant reminded us all why […] More
LOS ANGELES — Witnessing the sight of Patrick Beverley strutting around with a finger aloft and letting the Los Angeles Clippers’ team owner, Steve Ballmer, wrap him up in a triumphant hug is not how LeBron James intended to celebrate Christmas. For the Los Angeles Lakers, it was the sort of dreaded scene that generates […] More
