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Leon Rose’s Quiet Effect: Knicks’ Good Vibes Come Ahead of Schedule
As team president for the past year, Rose has let the Knicks’ on-court flickers of progress do most of his talking. → Read More
The Lakers Beat the Heat in Game 1 of the N.B.A. Finals
The Lakers fell into a deficit early but fought back with a string of 3-pointers. The Heat were hobbled by injuries, a concern for the rest of the series. → Read More
The Miami Heat’s Bam Adebayo Is ‘Built Different’
Adebayo made an All-Star turn during the regular season and is playing with distinction alongside Jimmy Butler as the Heat race toward an unexpected N.B.A. finals berth. → Read More
I Spent 54 Days in the NBA Bubble. Here’s the Gear I Couldn’t Live Without.
Sometimes it takes being in a quarantined magic kingdom to realize what you really can’t live without. → Read More
Steve Nash Hired as Coach of Brooklyn Nets
Nash, a superstar as a player, has not had a head coaching job before. → Read More
N.B.A. Players Will Return to Playoffs After Walkout
A protest walkout by the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday triggered similar actions by other N.B.A. and W.N.B.A. teams and across professional baseball, soccer and tennis. → Read More
Led by N.B.A., Boycotts Disrupt Pro Sports in Wake of Blake Shooting
The boycotts, including games in the W.N.B.A., Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer, come as athletes have wondered whether speaking out against systemic racism would be enough to influence change. → Read More
Luka Doncic Had an Off Night. He’s Still Special.
In this week’s newsletter, Marc Stein discusses Luka Doncic’s playoff performances, popular coaching candidates and Kobe’s first N.B.A. game. → Read More
Damian Lillard Out for Game 5 of Lakers-Blazers Series
Lillard, the Portland Trail Blazers guard, had been on a tear but left Game 4 with a knee injury. The Lakers would win the series with a victory on Wednesday. → Read More
N.B.A. Playoff Teams Feel the Pain of Bubble Injuries
The Rockets, Sixers, Blazers and Magic, are among the teams coping with injuries to key players. The results are mixed. → Read More
Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis Set for N.B.A. Playoffs Debut
How the Dallas Mavericks’ two young European stars fare on the league’s biggest stage looms as one of the foremost curiosities of the playoffs. → Read More
Damian Lillard Gets Help Moving Portland Out of the Yacht Club
With a fourth quarter scoring run propelled by CJ McCollum and Carmelo Anthony, Portland earned a spot in the first round of the N.B.A. playoffs. They will face LeBron James’s Lakers. → Read More
Pelicans Fire Coach Alvin Gentry
After leaving the N.B.A. bubble in Florida with two wins in eight games, New Orleans announced that it would look for a new coach before Zion Williamson’s second season. → Read More
The N.B.A. Bubble Bursts for Gregg Popovich and the Spurs
San Antonio leaves Walt Disney World having failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 1996-97. But the team’s irascible 71-year-old coach indicates he expects to be back next season. → Read More
The N.B.A.’s ‘Yacht Club Six’ Seek Respect and a Lifeline
With the regular season winding down, more than hotel envy now afflicts the six lower-rung teams that are living in a lower-rung Disney World resort and trying to crash the N.B.A. playoffs. → Read More
LeBron James Says He Doesn’t Care if Trump Shuns N.B.A. Over Protests
“The game will go on without his eyes on it,” James, the Los Angeles Lakers star, said after President Trump said he turns off games when players kneel during the national anthem. → Read More
Covid Spike in Florida Gives NBA Players More Reason to Hesitate
Concerns over dampening activism, injuries and now a drastic rise in coronavirus cases near Orlando could complicate the league’s plan to restart at Walt Disney World next month. → Read More
N.B.A. Sets July 31 Return to Play Entirely in Florida
The proposal approved by owners will next go to the players’ union. The 22 teams would play eight games each to help determine the playoff field of 16. → Read More
N.B.A. Team Owners to Vote on 22-Team Plan to Resume Season
The plan, expected to be easily adopted on Thursday, would give six outside teams a chance to win their way into the playoffs. → Read More
N.B.A. in Talks to Resume Season at Walt Disney World Resort
The league is in discussions with its players’ union and the Walt Disney Company about restarting its season — suspended since March 11 — at the Orlando-based resort in late July. → Read More