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The W.N.B.A. plans to hold its draft as scheduled in April, using video conferencing in hopes of recreating the moment so many athletes say they dream about: when a league commissioner hands them a jersey and their professional lives begin. “We want to make sure that the players who are the draftees get their moment […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Gregg Popovich will not be happy with this. I know, I know: Popovich made it clear years ago, in a memorable interview with my old friend David Aldridge on TNT, that there is no such thing as happiness for N.B.A. […] More
Steve Ballmer, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, reached an agreement on Tuesday to buy the Forum arena in Inglewood, Calif., from the Madison Square Garden Company for $400 million in cash. The deal would bring a halt to months of legal wrangling with James L. Dolan, the chief executive of the company and […] More
Boris Stankovic, the longtime head of basketball’s worldwide governing body and a driving force in the fight to allow N.B.A. players to participate in the Olympics, died on Friday in Belgrade, Serbia. He was 94. His death was announced by the International Basketball Federation, or FIBA. He was its secretary general from 1976 to 2002. […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. The truest reply to pretty much any question about the N.B.A.’s hopes for restarting its shuttered 2019-20 season is that none of us have the answers. Can the league really restart in June if players keep testing positive for the […] More
As Danilo Gallinari remembers it, he was the first player on the court Wednesday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, eager for the jump ball that would start the game between Gallinari’s Thunder and the Utah Jazz. Gallinari also won’t soon forget how quickly he and his teammates were ushered back to the […] More
Some of the N.B.A.’s biggest stars — including Zion Williamson and Giannis Antetokounmpo — and several team owners said they would help cover the lost income of everyday arena employees while the league goes dark for at least 30 days because of the coronavirus outbreak. The announcements have come in fits and starts as the […] More
As Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, stood in his team’s home locker room before Wednesday’s game against the Denver Nuggets, he fielded an uncomfortable question from one of his players: What are the chances this N.B.A. season gets interrupted by the coronavirus crisis? Confident that the league had not come close to […] More
