Patrick Beverley fined $25K for throwing ball

NEW YORK (AP) — Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died Tuesday. He was 80. Reed’s death was announced by the National…

A pair of organizations — both recent recipients of grants from the NBA Foundation — are working to fight mass incarceration, assist young people and ease the transition of community members as they return home from prison or jail. Through their work, the organizations seek to address some of the harms inflicted by our criminal…

Stephen Curry (right) and the Warriors figure heavily into the NBA’s historic showdowns in 2021-22. Those who do learn from history sometimes are destined to honor it. We all know the pessimistic flip side of the original quote, warning those who fail to do their history homework. But the NBA’s 2021-22 regular-season schedule released this…

Nine days ago, Hornets forward Frank Kaminsky made highlight reels after throwing it down on Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo. In the third quarter of Wednesday night’s Charlotte-Milwaukee rematch, the “Greek Freak” exacted his brutal revenge, driving on and dunking all over Kaminsky.

Here at the OSPR headquarters, we’re all about inclusion. That’s why this season, we’re opening our doors to all those 32-year-old NBAers. So for 2017-18, chances are fairly good that our list will see a healthy dose of a King, a gritty point guard in Houston, a 7-foot Spaniard, a hoodie in OKC and an…

When summarizing the intersection between NBA hoops and societal problems, there’s a go-to platitude. “It’s bigger than basketball.” The phrase manifested like never before on Aug. 26, when several NBA teams put down the basketball to focus on those “bigger” issues. A Black man had been shot seven times in the back by police. His…