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They booed him when he was drafted, thinking he wouldn’t be a star. They booed him — in raucous and sometimes ugly ways — when he came back as a member of the team he was traded to after he said he wanted to leave. The team barely protested, if at all. Kristaps Porzingis, the […] More
Marcus Morris made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 13.2 seconds remaining to delight a Madison Square Garden crowd that booed Kristaps Porzingis all night, and the Knicks beat the Dallas Mavericks, 106-103, on Thursday. Morris also knocked away a Mavericks inbounds pass with under a second left, helping the Knicks to just their third victory in […] More
Carmelo Anthony — at long last — has found a home. The Portland Trail Blazers and the 10-time All-Star have agreed to a deal, according to a person with knowledge of the deal who was not authorized to discuss it publicly. The agreement was first reported on Thursday night by ESPN, which said the contract […] More
A Muslim woman said she was discriminated against before an N.B.A. game in Denver when she was told that she had to remove her hijab. The woman, Gazella Bensreiti, 36, a receptionist from Westminster, Colo., said in an interview on Thursday that she was headed to pick up her ticket at will call at the […] More
HOUSTON — The Los Angeles Clippers have 71 games to go before the N.B.A. playoffs after Wednesday night’s fourth-quarter unraveling against the Houston Rockets. The Clippers also have 10 more sets of back-to-back games to get through, even after Thursday’s visit to New Orleans. Translation: Kawhi Leonard is likely to sit out at least 10 […] More
The first sportswriter from New York armed with Knicks questions for Kristaps Porzingis arrived in Dallas last Tuesday. By the time Porzingis and the rest of the Mavericks fly back to Texas after Thursday’s highly anticipated reunion game at Madison Square Garden, he will have played his former team twice. He will also have endured […] More
SAN FRANCISCO — On Monday morning, a few hours before the Golden State Warriors’ 11th game of the N.B.A. season, Coach Steve Kerr guided his team step by painstaking step through a few defensive concepts. It was more instructional clinic than pregame workout, which by itself was a jarring reminder of how much the landscape […] More
David Levy, a Turner Media executive who was hired as the chief executive of the Nets less than two months ago, is leaving the franchise, the Nets announced on Tuesday. Levy is being replaced on an interim basis by Oliver Weisberg, an executive with the owner Joe Tsai’s Hong Kong-based investment firm. “I want to […] More
