EAST LANSING, Mich. — Tom Izzo, the men’s basketball coach at Michigan State, was in his office sharing stories about Draymond Green. Stories about the practices when Green would get so angry that he would punt the ball off the ceiling. About the halftime speeches that Izzo never asked Green to deliver. About the clipboards […] More
A woman who accused Sacramento Kings Coach Luke Walton of sexual assault has dropped her lawsuit. The request for dismissal, filed on Tuesday in Superior Court in Los Angeles, was first reported by TMZ. After the woman, Kelli Tennant, filed the suit in April, the N.B.A. and the Kings announced an investigation by a Sacramento […] More
A new movie uses an N.B.A. playoff as the backdrop for Sandler’s gambling character, a mix the league once would have run from. More
James Harden rose for an uncontested dunk. It went into the basket with great downward force, as so many of his others have before. Then came an apparent violation of some of the fundamental laws of physics. The ball passed through the hoop, but then spun upward back to the top of the rim, where […] More
This week’s newsletter catches up with Luis Scola, 39, to talk about how the N.B.A. has changed since he left two years ago and about his surprising World Cup silver medal as part of Argentina’s team. More
The Nets are missing their three best players, two of them All-N.B.A.-caliber centerpieces. And yet, they’re doing just enough to get by. For that, the Nets have chiefly turned to two players who made them such a watchable team last year — Spencer Dinwiddie and Jarrett Allen — two core pieces of the scrappy, upstart […] More
MILWAUKEE — Mike Budenholzer, the coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, recently described Giannis Antetokounmpo as a “monster” at one of his postgame news conferences. In that moment, as he stood a few feet from Budenholzer, Brice Christianson tried to work out in his head how to interpret that word for his audience watching live on […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. It was, and shall remain, my favorite twist from the looniest N.B.A. off-season ever. Not the dueling star duos that formed in Los Angeles. Not the Nets’ stunning free-agent superiority over the Knicks. Not even the combustible reunion of James […] More
