Victor Wembanyama had spent the series looking like a storm trying to stay human. In Game 7, after the Spurs walked into Oklahoma City and beat the defending champion Thunder …
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Michael Jordan Was Already Drawing Lines Before The World Knew His Name
Before Michael Jordan became the face of global basketball obsession, before the six championships, before the shoes, before the mythology, Kenny Smith saw the competitive sickness up close in Chapel …
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Giannis Antetokounmpo has guarded almost every kind of superstar basketball can create. He has seen power, speed, size, footwork, rhythm and violence up close. He has lived in the paint …
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On May 28, 1986, Larry Bird did not merely win another MVP. He joined a private basketball monarchy. The Boston Celtics forward captured his third consecutive Maurice Podoloff Trophy, becoming …
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There was a time when saying Jalen Brunson over Luka Dončić would have sounded like basketball malpractice. Luka was the prodigy, the heliocentric genius, the oversized playmaker who bent entire …
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27 years ago today, on May 26, 1999, basketball royalty, celebrities, and admirers gathered at FleetCenter in Boston to pay homage to one of the greatest figures in sports histor …
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Anthony Edwards did not dap up the Spurs because he was happy. . He did it with eight minutes left because the game was over, his night was over, and …
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For years, the easiest criticism of Karl-Anthony Towns was not about talent. Nobody ever doubted the talent. A 7-footer with touch, range, rebounding and offensive imagination was never the issue. …
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For one half, Game 2 still felt like a fight. For one half, the Cavaliers had enough size, enough Donovan Mitchell, enough Evan Mobley and enough residual belief to convince …
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LeBron James did not need many words to explain one of the NBA’s strangest recurring miracles. San Antonio, he said, keeps getting “lucky as f—k” with a very specific kind …
