Giannis Antetokounmpo carried around a small, black portable fan, which looked minuscule as it whirred in his 12-inch-wide hands. He was trying to counteract the hot sun at a hillside mansion as he watched his youngest brother, Alex Antetokounmpo, pose for photos near a basketball hoop overlooking Los Angeles for an ad campaign. “Alex, the
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For Philadelphia 76ers fans, this is The Bad Place. “Disgust among Sixers fans is at one of the highest levels I have ever seen here in Philadelphia,” Joe DeCamara, a Philadelphia radio host, said in a recent interview. A confluence of misfortune and bad strategy has almost left the team where it was in the
The New York Liberty (24-6) took down the league-leading Las Vegas Aces 82-63 in the third annual WNBA Commissioner’s Cup competition Tuesday night. Liberty forward/center Jonquel Jones earned the MVP award with 16 points and a game-high 15 rebounds. Teammate Marine Johannès scorched the Aces from three-point land with five three-pointers at Michelob Ultra Arena
The 40-point game had disappeared from the W.N.B.A. over the past several years. This season, it has made a comeback. Ten times this year a player has scored at least 40 points in a game, by far the most in a single season in the league’s 27-year history. Before this year, there had been no
When the Miami Heat selected Dwyane Wade with the fifth pick of the 2003 N.B.A. draft, the league was in dire need of star players to carry it out of the Michael Jordan era. Wade’s draft class — which also featured LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Carmelo Anthony — ended up fitting the bill and
The Leicester Riders have announced the signing of Jaren Holmes to their roster for the 2023/24 British Basketball League season. The 6’4” guard comes to Leicester as a rookie, having spent his final season of college eligibility at Iowa State University. He led the Iowa State Cyclones in scoring with 13.3 points per game and
The Leicester Riders have announced the ninth name added to their roster for the 2023/24 British Basketball League season, as they confirm the signing of American guard, Xavier Pinson. The 6’2” hooper signs from New Mexico State University, following stints at LSU and Missouri over his five-year college career. The Chicago native averaged 13.3 points
The Caledonia Gladiators are thrilled to announce the newest addition to their roster, as they sign British Canadian guard Kyle Johnson. Johnson brings a formidable skillset making him a valuable asset for the Gladiators’ quest for victory in the upcoming season. Hailing from Scarborough, Ontario, Johnson is an experienced professional showcasing his ability to shine
The National Basketball Players Association is the union for N.B.A. players, a group of adult millionaires, most of whose mothers don’t attend unit meetings. But Terri Jackson is no ordinary N.B.A. mom. She is also the executive director for the W.N.B.A. players’ union, and, in February, she was invited to the N.B.A. players’ union’s winter
Towering forward Jordan Hunt joins Surrey Scorchers from New Zealand NBL side Hawke’s Bay Hawks ahead of the 2023/24 season. The two-time NBL champion and FIBA Asia Cup (2022) medallist started his career in his hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, before moving to the United States to play college basketball at Sothern Oregon Raiders. During
In June 2022, on the same day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Adam Silver, the N.B.A. commissioner, released a statement jointly with the W.N.B.A.’s commissioner, Cathy Engelbert. Silver and Engelbert said the leagues believed “that women should be able to make their own decisions concerning their health and future, and we believe that
The Manchester Giants have confirmed the return of one of the most dominant big players in the British Basketball League as Head Coach Brian Semonian confirms the signing of 7’1” Legend Robertin for the 2023/24 season. The veteran centre will suit up for his second season in the north-west after arriving at the Belle Vue
His lungs were on fire. He had run from baseline to baseline, on a court that had splashes of black and red and the printed words of his mantra: Overly Determined to Dominate. At each end of the court, he had caught a pass and taken a shot. He needed this one to slice through
Depression and anxiety have become safer topics in the N.B.A. because of the openness of star players like DeMar DeRozan, Kevin Love and Paul George. The phenomenon reaches across professional sports, with young athletes like the tennis player Naomi Osaka, the swimmer Michael Phelps and the gymnast Aly Raisman talking candidly about their struggles. But
Chris Paul was on a plane to New York on Sunday, to promote his new book, when he heard the news in a text from his 14-year-old son, Chris II: He had been traded. Paul, a 12-time All-Star, is one of the most accomplished point guards in N.B.A. history. He had recently finished his third
Their knees are bent, palms outstretched, eyes darting and alert. The young women of Lady Train, a high school basketball team in rural Arkansas, are training for every possibility on the court — which, in the beloved tradition of sports-powered coming-of-age stories, also means preparing for adult life. Perhaps it should be no surprise, then,
Miles Bridges will return to the Charlotte Hornets on a one-year contract next season after he finishes a suspension for pleading no contest to felony domestic violence. Bridges, 25, had been a restricted free agent for the Hornets since June 2022, when he had been expected to negotiate for a $173 million maximum deal over
In Inua Ellams’s new play, “The Half-God of Rainfall,” the gods play thunderous games of basketball in the heavens. For Candrice Jones’s “Flex,” high schoolers practice their defensive stances while scraping by in rural Arkansas. Near the end of Rajiv Joseph’s “King James,” the two main characters play a one-on-one game of basketball using a
Aliyah Boston said she usually keeps it cool when she faces the star basketball players she grew up watching on television. But her poker face slipped last month. Boston, a rookie power forward and center for the Indiana Fever, was in a close contest against the Las Vegas Aces and she was shoulder to shoulder
The NCAA is adding another postseason women’s tournament to its lineup. The organization announced the launch of the 32-team Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament for 2024. The event will be completely owned and funded by the NCAA. There are already two independent postseason tournaments that have robust participation: The 64-team WNIT and the eight-team Women’s Basketball
Jewell Loyd of Team Stewart holds up the MVP trophy after the 2023 WNBA All-Star Game at Michelob ULTRA Arena on July 15, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) With her parents in the audience celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, Seattle Storm’s Jewell Loyd led Team Stewart in record-breaking fashion to
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Photos: Charles Hallman. LAS VEGAS – There’s not a corner you go by here in Las Vegas that something isn’t mentioned about the Aces, the league’s best team thus far this season at 19-2. They have a league-high four All-Stars: captain A’ja Wilson, Jackie Young, Kelsey Plum, and Chelsea Gray. “It
That, broadly speaking, is the idea that haunts both documentaries. The conundrum of Walton’s and Chamberlain’s careers is that they were marked by success — college and professional championships, statistical domination (in Chamberlain’s case), reputations for unmatched athletic skills — and defined by disappointment. Neither won as often or as easily as he should have,
This slideshow requires JavaScript. 2023 WNBA All-Star Skills Challenge on July 14, 2023, in Las Vegas, NV at Michelob Ultra Arena (Photo Ethan Miller/Getty Images). On Friday, the dynamic duo of Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum from the Las Vegas Aces emerged victorious in the 2023 WNBA All-Star Skills Challenge at Michelob Ultra Arena. They
Nikki McCray-Penson, an all-American point guard for the powerhouse University of Tennessee women’s basketball team, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a three-time All-Star in the W.N.B.A., died on Friday. She was 51. Her death was announced by Rutgers University, where she was about to enter her second season as an assistant coach of the
Somewhere under the lights of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center over the weekend, the Jabbawockeez danced during a television special that could have been an email as part of the “most culturally relevant basketball experience on the planet.” That’s what the signs called it, anyway. It was the first-ever N.B.A. Con, the league’s riff on
The walls around Victor Wembanyama, as he sat for a news conference Friday night at the Thomas and Mack Center, were plastered with images of past winners of the Las Vegas Summer League tournament. There were N.B.A. stars who played there in the early days of their careers and a photo of LeBron James from
The singer Britney Spears asked for an apology on Thursday after accusing a member of a star N.B.A. player’s security detail of striking her in the face outside a Las Vegas restaurant when she tried to greet the player, Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs. In a tweet about the encounter, Spears did not
The Washington Wizards plan to trade Chris Paul to Golden State for guard Jordan Poole after reaching an agreement to acquire Paul from the Phoenix Suns earlier this week, according to a person familiar with the deals who was not authorized to discuss them publicly. The plan, which was first reported by ESPN on Thursday
The fact that the N.B.A. draft occurred smack in the middle of the Paris men’s wear shows was something of a cosmically appropriate coincidence. After all, the draft has increasingly become one of our most watched runways, the heart of the convergence between fashion and sport that has spawned the tunnel walk and social media
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