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    Top 5 N.B.A. Trades at the Deadline

    Fears of an underwhelming N.B.A. trade deadline were washed away on Thursday, when 11 separate deals came to fruition before the league’s 3 p.m. Eastern time buzzer. Further fears that the most significant action of the week would belong to Major League Baseball — after the Los Angeles Dodgers’ deal with the Boston Red Sox […] More

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    Leon Rose, an Agent, Is Expected to Be the Next Knicks President

    Leon Rose, an N.B.A. agent at Creative Artists Agency, will take over as the Knicks’ team president, a person with knowledge of the team’s plans who was not authorized to discuss them publicly said on Thursday. While Rose does not have experience in basketball operations, he has a deep well of connections to star players, […] More

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    N.B.A. Trade Season Ensnares the Knicks and Andre Iguodala

    Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. The blockbuster trade on Jan. 31, 2019 that dispatched Kristaps Porzingis to the Dallas Mavericks from New York had much of the league reaching the same conclusion: The Knicks must know something. They quickly convinced countless rival teams that they […] More

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    Knicks President Steve Mills Is Leaving the Team

    For much of the last two decades, Steve Mills has been in the Knicks orbit, whether as a high-ranking executive with the Madison Square Garden Company or as the person in charge of basketball decisions for the franchise. It seemed that nothing could shake the faith of James L. Dolan, the team’s owner. Not a […] More

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    Oregon Women Rout UConn at Home: ‘They’re Just Too Good’

    STORRS, Conn. — The postgame tableau at Gampel Pavilion, of a disappointed Geno Auriemma analyzing what went wrong, was unfamiliar. After his team’s 74-56 loss to Oregon on Monday night, Auriemma, the longtime coach of the UConn women’s basketball team, was left to analyze exactly why his team didn’t just lose on its campus court […] More

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    Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s Bond Was Made of Love and Basketball

    Playing against Kobe Bryant for 17 years convinced Jason Terry of one thing: He needed to prepare zealously before coaching against him for the first time. So two weeks ahead of a January trip from Dallas to Southern California, Terry obtained video of Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy girls’ basketball team for film study. Then he […] More