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Every good narrative needs someone wearing the black hat, and in at least the first two episodes of “The Last Dance,” the ESPN documentary about Michael Jordan, that man is Jerry Krause. Who was Krause? And why did he play such a big, and contentious, part in the Chicago Bulls’ dynasty and Jordan’s career? What […] More
Right now, 10 hours of old playoff basketball should probably be broadcast with a trigger warning. Ten hours of Michael Jordan-era Chicago Bulls playoff basketball should probably come with a chaplain. For “The Last Dance” is 10 hours of all-time postseason sports. The documentary is ostensibly about the season that culminated in the team’s historic […] More
The Liberty selected Sabrina Ionescu with the No. 1 overall pick in the W.N.B.A. draft on Friday, kicking off a refashioned “virtual” event for a league that has, like most sports around the world, been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. The infusion of Ionescu and her star power into the W.N.B.A. comes amid a period […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. In a family that has amassed five N.B.A. championships, there are naturally strong basketball opinions. Andy Thompson didn’t win any of those rings, but he considers himself the only Thompson qualified to rank dynasties whenever his brother Mychal or his […] More
For the Liberty, a tumultuous decade that put the franchise’s future in doubt has given rise to a team that is new in almost every way imaginable. A new owner: Joe Tsai, not James L. Dolan. A new home: Barclays Center, after a long run at Madison Square Garden and a two-year exile to the […] More
The Liberty traded Tina Charles, a veteran All-Star center, to the Washington Mystics as part of a three-team deal on Wednesday, just days before they are widely expected to select Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu with the top pick in the W.N.B.A. draft. The Liberty received the 12th pick in this year’s W.N.B.A. draft from Washington as […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. We passed the one-month marker without N.B.A. basketball on Saturday. Playoff games were supposed to start this Saturday, but no one can say yet how soon, or even if, they will happen in 2020. It nonetheless feels appropriate, 35 days […] More
This biographical documentary leaves viewers wondering to what degree Lloyd Daniels has come to terms with his past. More
