Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. TORONTO — No one in N.B.A. history had ever led his team to a championship the way Kawhi Leonard did with the Toronto Raptors and then picked a new team 23 days later. Yet no one before Leonard had ever […] More
SAN ANTONIO — Bryn Forbes spent his first year in the N.B.A. shuttling between San Antonio and Austin, Texas, in his 2010 Chevrolet Impala. He became very familiar with the 80-mile stretch of Interstate 35 that connects the two cities. Sometimes he played music. Sometimes he talked on the phone. Sometimes he drove in silence. […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. It appears Mets fans will be able to make the indisputable claim this Christmas that their team is a greater source of hope than the Knicks are for their own fans. Let that marinate as you ponder how far the […] More
The Virginia men’s basketball team, for a decade under Coach Tony Bennett, has had a methodical offense, playing at the slowest pace in the country for the last five seasons. But despite that style, the team has always been able to score. Last season, it scored 116 points per 100 possessions, fourth best in the […] More
On Thursday night, near the end of another of those 37-point Knick routs that felt as if it should count as more than a single loss, word came that the team’s owner, Jim Dolan, as well as the team’s president and its general manager had vacated their seats and disappeared underneath the stands of Madison […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. The Knicks on Friday fired Coach David Fizdale and one of his assistants, Keith Smart, with the team on pace to record the worst season in franchise history. Mike Miller, also an assistant coach, was named the interim head coach. […] More
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
