NBA

In a sports world that keeps asking fans to pay more just to feel closer, Mat Ishbia has made the rare ownership move that sounds almost old-fashioned: let people watch …

For decades, tanking has lived in the NBA’s shadows as the league’s most open secret. It has been denied in press conferences, dressed up as “development,” hidden behind “rest,” sold …

For a few wild minutes, San Antonio looked ready to turn the Western Conference Finals into a Spurs revival meeting. Frost Bank Center was roaring, the Thunder were wobbling, and …

In one of the most intense battles in Eastern Conference Finals history, the Philadelphia 76ers traveled to Boston Garden on May 23, 1982, with everything on the line. After jumping …

Dillon Brooks has never been interested in being a quiet character in someone else’s story. Some players answer rivalry with a shrug. Brooks answers it like a man auditioning for …

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 …

The Boston Celtics and Atlanta Hawks were locked in a fierce battle during the 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals, but it was Game 7 on May 22, 1988, that became one …

There are few fan bases in American sports that turn joy into a weather event quite like Knicks fans. A win at Madison Square Garden does not simply end when …

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 …