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Oklahoma City Thunder Coach Billy Donovan invited about 1,000 people into his home recently while still practicing social distancing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Through videoconferencing, Donovan, 54, gave instruction for more than 80 minutes on the Coaches Clinic site, discussing his offensive philosophy and answering questions submitted to a moderator — all from […] More
In the final seconds of Game 4 of the 2012 W.N.B.A. finals, Tamika Catchings’s Indiana Fever were comfortably ahead of the Minnesota Lynx, poised to win their first championship. But even with her team up by 9, Catchings stayed with Minnesota’s Maya Moore as she drove up the floor, defending right to the final buzzer […] More
As a student at George Washington University, Ben Metcalf worked as a Washington Wizards ball boy for the same two seasons that the Wizards employed a shooting guard named Michael Jordan. Soon after, Metcalf was an intern in the Orlando Magic video room when they beat the Knicks on opening night — and then lost […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Asterisks have long been a fickle form of punctuation in the N.B.A. They tend to be subjectively attached to certain championships and, even then, don’t always stick. Some of the loudest asterisk talk in league history followed the San Antonio […] More
Kobe Bryant leads one of the most highly anticipated player classes ever for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame alongside three other superstars from the N.B.A. and W.N.B.A. who defined the sport over the first two decades of this century. Bryant, the former Los Angeles Lakers star who died on Jan. 26 in a […] More
The W.N.B.A. has postponed the start of its season because of the coronavirus pandemic, with no indication when play would begin. The league was scheduled to open training camps on April 26 and the regular season was set to begin on May 15. The W.N.B.A. will still hold a “virtual” draft on April 17. W.N.B.A. […] More
Long before he began feeding his obsession and even found himself sitting next to its hosts, Rui Hachimura didn’t understand all the fuss about the Japanese reality television show “Terrace House.” His high school teammates in Japan had tried hard to get him on board. “I was the only one who was like, ‘Nah,’” said […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Josh Hart and the New Orleans Pelicans were supposed to play at home against the Knicks last Friday. Hart instead found himself stuck at home and in a mood to muse. “I miss the Premier League,” Hart said on Twitter […] More
