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The NBA has announced the 2025-26 Kia NBA All-Rookie first and second teams featuring standouts Cooper Flagg of the Dallas Mavericks, Kon Knueppel of the Charlotte Hornets, VJ Edgecome of the Philadelphia 76ers, Dylan Harper of the San Antonio Spurs and Cedric Coward of the Memphis Grizzlies, who rounded out the first team. Advertisement This…

The New York Knicks stunned the Cleveland Cavaliers and the entire sports world Tuesday night, erasing a 22-point deficit with just under 8 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter to ultimately claim Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. The Cavaliers’ win probability at the start of the Knicks’ comeback was 99.9 percent, per ESPN’s…

Welcome back to MoneyCall, The Athletic’s weekly sports business cheat sheet. Name-dropped today: Victor Wembanyama, Louis Vuitton, Josh D’Amaro, Carlos Alcaraz, Aaron Rai, Jenny Nguyen, Katherine Legge, Caitlin Clark and more. Let’s go: Driving the Conversation Welcome to Wemby’s world With his Game 1 performance in the NBA’s West finals, Victor Wembanyama just solidified himself…

There are moments in sports that burn lines of demarcation between joy and sorrow. Tuesday night’s Eastern Conference finals Game 1 was just such a moment. The New York Knicks stormed back from a 22-point fourth-quarter deficit to force overtime and win 115-104 against the Cleveland Cavaliers. For Knicks fans, after watching their team resurrect…

NEW YORK — Victor Wembanyama is taking the San Antonio Spurs back to Paris next season, and this time he’s bringing Zion Williamson with him. The NBA announced Wednesday that for the second time in his young career, Wembanyama, born in Paris, will play two games with the Spurs in Europe next January, including one…

The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. The conference finals need to slow down a bit. We’ve had two games so far and three overtime periods. We’ve had one of the best individual performances we’ve ever seen and one of…

SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Dunleavy set the tone for his entire summer with the first answer in his postseason news conference. In his opening statement, the Golden State Warriors general manager mentioned the multiple conversations that led to Steve Kerr returning for a 13th season as head coach. As a follow-up, Dunleavy was asked how many of…

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Make a weird serve today. Coming up:  👀 The Knicks’ comeback 👑 Arsenal’s crowning 😳 A little-league grand slam Another One: Sure, more OT There was no way last night…

NEW YORK — At this point, declaring the excellence of Jalen Brunson is redundant. The words to describe another clutch performance, after another offensive explosion, tend to lose their impact because of repetition. In Tuesday’s Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, Brunson did it again. As has become the norm since becoming Gotham’s knight,…

NEW YORK — So, worst loss in Cavs history? I suppose the answer lies in what ultimately happens in this series. If, somehow, the Cleveland Cavaliers recover against the New York Knicks, then this one will sink to the bottom of the Hudson River. But being on the wrong end of the second-largest fourth-quarter comeback…