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    N.B.A. Suspends Season After Player Tests Positive for Coronavirus

    The N.B.A. will suspend its season after a Utah Jazz player was found to have tested positive for the coronavirus, the league announced on Wednesday. The league said the suspension would take effect after the completion of Wednesday’s schedule. The announcement came after a game between the Jazz and the Thunder at Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake […] More

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    Sports Leagues Bar Fans and Cancel Games Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

    A steady trickle of cancellations and other disruptions in the sports world caused by the coronavirus outbreak erupted into an avalanche on Wednesday, with the N.B.A. abruptly suspending its season and the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament and other events barring most spectators. A major tennis tournament was also in doubt. The N.B.A. acted after a player […] More

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    Double Trouble for the Knicks and the Nets

    Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. There have been three coaching changes in the N.B.A. this season. New York teams have accounted for two of them. It’s just the third time in their N.B.A. histories that the Knicks and the Nets have made changes on the […] More

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    Los Angeles Sparks Accused of Sexual Discrimination in Lawsuit

    Penny Toler, the former general manager of the Los Angeles Sparks, is suing the W.N.B.A. team, saying she was fired for raising complaints about inappropriate sexual relationships involving the team president and a managing partner, not for using a racial slur. The Sparks fired Toler on Oct. 4, about two weeks after a profane postgame […] More

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    Kenny Atkinson Is Out as Nets Head Coach

    Kenny Atkinson is no longer the head coach of the Nets, the team unexpectedly announced on Saturday. “After discussions with Kenny about the progress of the season, we mutually agreed that a coaching change would be in the best interest of the team,” General Manager Sean Marks said in a statement. “This was an extremely […] More