The Big Story: NBA Finals, Game 2

Tuesday’s 14-game night saw two teams clinch, two teams climb, and one Antman drop his first 50-piece … while playing in front of 50 Cent. THE LINEUP What’s inside today’s edition?  Antman’s 51: Anthony Edwards’ career-high helped the Wolves keep No. 1 spot in the West Tickets punched: The Clippers won the Pacific, the Mavs clinched, and the…

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — The National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced the formation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will conduct the league’s business in Africa, including the Basketball Africa League (BAL) – a partnership between the NBA and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the NBA’s first collaboration to operate a league outside…

Greg Taylor began his role as Executive Director of the NBA Foundation on Jan. 4, 2021. NBA Foundation Executive Director Greg Taylor should be taking a well-deserved vacation. Instead, he’s pulled over to the side of the road on a trip to the mountains in upstate New York taking a call from NBA.com to provide…

It started as a baseball pass and ended as a basketball shot. For an athlete who set out to be a Major League baseball player and ended up a Hall of Fame basketball player (and coach!), the sequence itself, really, could not be more perfect or symbolic for Bill Sharman. The scene is this: The…

Minneapolis/St. Paul — The Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday announced that the team has exercised the fourth-year options on Karl-Anthony Towns and Tyus Jones. Towns, 21, averaged 25.1 points, 12.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game last season, starting all 82 games for the second consecutive year. The 7-0 forward/center set a franchise single-season scoring record…

An NBA game can be the ultimate showcase of individual talent. It can also be the ultimate showcase of teamwork, five players in synch, where the whole is greater than the individual parts. The 1969-70 New York Knicks were that team. The pieces fit, the players were in the right roles, the ball moved on…