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The Chicago Bulls are filling out their new front office. New executive vice president Bryson Graham made two hires to his cabinet this week, tabbing former Orlando Magic assistant general manager Stephen Mervis as senior vice president of basketball operations, and bringing on Acie Law, formerly the Brooklyn Nets’ director of player personnel, as Chicago’s…

The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. We don’t have any games tonight! Both Game 6s in the East and West will be tomorrow. What should we do with our night off from the NBA? Celebrate the birthdays of Pooh…

Four years ago, Jacob Misiorowski was grinding away at a junior college on the edge of the Ozarks. Now, he’s blowing away major league hitters and setting velocity records in the process. The 24-year-old Milwaukee Brewers starter was an All-Star as a rookie last season and just keeps getting better. Through eight starts, he has…

LOS ANGELES — Steve Kerr believes in the culture he built. In the end, that belief brought him back to the Golden State Warriors for two more seasons. No one inside the organization has been more candid about how the Warriors’ time at the top is “fading.” But no one believes more deeply in what was…

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DETROIT — He sounded hoarse, but not from the frantic screaming associated with being the head coach in a pivotal overtime playoff game. No, Kenny Atkinson insisted a bug was taking his voice, not the Detroit Pistons and this maniacal Game 5 victory.  “I wasn’t even yelling,” he said.  It was bad until it wasn’t.…

As David Thorpe prepared to head to Atlanta for the Final Four in 2002, he received an email from a young man he met in Boston a few years earlier. Masai Ujiri, who had been playing professional basketball in low-level leagues across Europe, wanted to get into coaching. Thorpe, a professional skills trainer for more…

SAN ANTONIO — Devin Vassell can’t wait to hear what El Jefe has to say. He’s sitting at a podium in the southeast corner of the gym but can see his former coach and current mentor all the way across the room. A little white head of hair, a dot in the distance, with a…

There were nights — many nights — when Ted Leonsis would sit courtside at Capital One Arena and not particularly like what he saw on the court, which was expected. Worse, though, might have been what he heard. “There were some moments where people are yelling at you,” Leonsis said. “Some of the social media…

LeBron James loves messing with that nemesis named Father Time. Just watch him. Any time he’s asked about his longevity or how he’s rewriting the possibilities for someone his age, his eyes will dance in anticipation. His mouth will curl into a confident grin. He’ll eagerly await the end of the question, just so that…