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Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Seventeen of the league’s 30 teams have played at least 27 games. A third of the regular season schedule, in other words, is essentially complete. So we can safely make some declarations about what has been a Los Angeles-centric season […] More
On Oct. 22, the Lakers lost their season opener against the Clippers, as the visiting team in the downtown Los Angeles arena they share. LeBron James and the Lakers haven’t lost on the road since. Their 14-game road winning streak is tied for the third longest in N.B.A. history. If the Lakers can beat the […] More
They crowded into Nationwide Arena, 13,000 strong, cheering every shot, roaring with every basket. Many were not there to see the game. They came to see LeBron. Both of them. Bronny James, the son of the N.B.A. star LeBron James, made his Ohio debut on Saturday, and hit the go-ahead shot in the Sierra Canyon […] More
David Stern, who ran the N.B.A. for 30 years as its commissioner, had emergency surgery on Thursday after a sudden brain hemorrhage, the league announced in a statement. According to a spokesman for the New York City Fire Department, a 911 call was made at 1:59 p.m. from 9 West 57th Street, just south of […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. TORONTO — No one in N.B.A. history had ever led his team to a championship the way Kawhi Leonard did with the Toronto Raptors and then picked a new team 23 days later. Yet no one before Leonard had ever […] More
SAN ANTONIO — Bryn Forbes spent his first year in the N.B.A. shuttling between San Antonio and Austin, Texas, in his 2010 Chevrolet Impala. He became very familiar with the 80-mile stretch of Interstate 35 that connects the two cities. Sometimes he played music. Sometimes he talked on the phone. Sometimes he drove in silence. […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. It appears Mets fans will be able to make the indisputable claim this Christmas that their team is a greater source of hope than the Knicks are for their own fans. Let that marinate as you ponder how far the […] More
The Virginia men’s basketball team, for a decade under Coach Tony Bennett, has had a methodical offense, playing at the slowest pace in the country for the last five seasons. But despite that style, the team has always been able to score. Last season, it scored 116 points per 100 possessions, fourth best in the […] More
