PHILADELPHIA — There is no doubt that Jimmy Butler is one of the best basketball players in the world and has been for some time. He is tenacious on both ends of the floor and unafraid of any opponent or moment. On Saturday night, he returned here to take on the 76ers, his most recent […] More
Injuries happen in all professional sports. Players get hurt, even when they are in top physical shape. But what has happened in the N.B.A. this season has gone far beyond the norm, particularly for the league’s best. Four top-20 players have not seen the court much, if at all, this year. That’s not including the […] More
Injuries happen in all professional sports. Players get hurt, even when they are in top physical shape. But what has happened in the N.B.A. this season has gone far beyond the norm, particularly for the league’s best. Four top-20 players have not seen the court much, if at all, this year. That’s not including the […] More
Here is how strange the first month of the N.B.A. season has been: The Portland Trail Blazers, who have done O.K. offensively but poorly on defense, turned to Carmelo Anthony to solve their problems this week. They offered him a starting job right out of the gate, even though he is not known for defensive […] More
Wat Misaka, the son of Japanese immigrants, was a 5-foot-7 guard who starred for the University of Utah on teams that won two national tournament championships at Madison Square Garden in New York and then joined the Knicks there in 1947. The Knicks featured Misaka’s photo in an advertisement promoting their season opener, describing him […] More
LOS ANGELES — It rained in Los Angeles on Wednesday, one of those infrequent meteorological events that seem to transfix this city while paralyzing the traffic. At around the same time, the Clippers went through their morning shootaround ahead of their game against the Boston Celtics later that night. Shootarounds tend to be unremarkable, but […] More
A political reporter has received an apology from Charles Barkley, the Turner Sports commentator and N.B.A. Hall of Famer, after she publicly accused him of making a threatening comment to her. Barkley was in the same Atlanta-area bar as Alexi McCammond, a reporter for Axios covering the 2020 presidential election, and a number of campaign […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. When Carmelo Anthony makes his expected Portland Trail Blazers debut on Tuesday night in New Orleans, Jamal Crawford will be back in the Pacific Northwest, tweaking his daily workout routine to mix in some TV time. Crawford typically heads to […] More
