The expectations are always high for the N.B.A.’s Christmas Day games, and the schedule-makers have an unenviable task in deciding which ones will be relevant with more than half the regular season left. This year’s collection of games is hit-and-miss. Two of the five could be Eastern and Western Conference finals previews, while two others […] More
MILWAUKEE — The Los Angeles Lakers were minutes removed from their fifth straight road game on Thursday night when LeBron James was asked about the prospect of heading home to play the Denver Nuggets on Sunday. James processed the question for a split second, then reclined in his folding chair as if he were on […] More
MILWAUKEE — Early in the fourth quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers, those gold-and-purple princes with their lordly leader LeBron James, awakened from a slumber and were pressing the Milwaukee Bucks, cutting a once mountainous lead to single digits. Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Bucks’ wunderkind, leapt to snare a rebound, spun and began to dribble down court. […] More
David Blatt, who coached the Cleveland Cavaliers to the N.B.A. finals in his lone full season on an N.B.A. bench, has joined the Knicks as a basketball operations consultant. The Knicks on Wednesday announced the hiring of Blatt, who played at Princeton alongside Steve Mills, their president of basketball operations. It’s a strictly front-office position […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Seventeen of the league’s 30 teams have played at least 27 games. A third of the regular season schedule, in other words, is essentially complete. So we can safely make some declarations about what has been a Los Angeles-centric season […] More
On Oct. 22, the Lakers lost their season opener against the Clippers, as the visiting team in the downtown Los Angeles arena they share. LeBron James and the Lakers haven’t lost on the road since. Their 14-game road winning streak is tied for the third longest in N.B.A. history. If the Lakers can beat the […] More
They crowded into Nationwide Arena, 13,000 strong, cheering every shot, roaring with every basket. Many were not there to see the game. They came to see LeBron. Both of them. Bronny James, the son of the N.B.A. star LeBron James, made his Ohio debut on Saturday, and hit the go-ahead shot in the Sierra Canyon […] More
David Stern, who ran the N.B.A. for 30 years as its commissioner, had emergency surgery on Thursday after a sudden brain hemorrhage, the league announced in a statement. According to a spokesman for the New York City Fire Department, a 911 call was made at 1:59 p.m. from 9 West 57th Street, just south of […] More
