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LOS ANGELES — In a grand hotel ballroom, with the high ceilings and fancy carpet, in almost any city outside of Cleveland that has an NBA team, when the Cavaliers are visiting, you will probably find star Donovan Mitchell there, two or three times a day. He’s usually in a hoodie, sweats, and sandals. He…

LOS ANGELES — It takes nearly a quarter-mile walk from the curb to the bus inside Terminal 4 at Los Angeles International Airport — a walk that includes a trip up two flights of stairs, down two escalators, through the mosaic-walled hallway that Pam Grier strutted through in “Jackie Brown,” and back up again. Then,…

March Madness is usually a pretty good time to be a UConn Husky. This week, it might feel even better than usual. In the men’s NCAA basketball tournament, the Huskies advanced to the Final Four with an improbable comeback against No. 1 seed Duke, erasing a 19-point deficit before sealing the deal with a wild…

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Maybe I’m too online, but I think all April Fools’ Day content should be banned. Sorry. Real news coming up: 🏒 NHL playoff picture 🏀 NBA playoff picture, too 🗳️…

Each week through the end of the regular season, we’ll check in on where I think the major individual awards races stand. This week, with a little more than a week left in the season, it feels like a good time to check in on the All-Defensive and All-Rookie possibilities. Here’s how the Awards Watch…

Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke was arrested and booked on four charges, including trafficking a controlled substance, on Wednesday in Cross County, Ark., according to the Cross County Sheriff’s Office. In addition to the trafficking charge, Clarke, 29, is facing charges of improper passing, possession of a controlled substance and fleeing in a vehicle or…

The NBA fined the Portland Trail Blazers $100,000 and suspended two front office members for illegal contact with Yang Hansen two years before the team drafted him, the league announced Wednesday. Assistant general managers Mike Schmitz and Sergi Oliva were suspended for two weeks after the Blazers said they self-reported the violations. Both Schmitz and…

After the Phoenix Suns fired then-coach Mike Budenholzer following last season, media and fans joked that owner Mat Ishbia, given his Michigan State history, might pursue longtime Spartans’ coach Tom Izzo for the position. As it turned out, he did. And Izzo considered taking the job. “I’ve had more than a couple job offers in…

Jaden Ivey’s tenure with the Chicago Bulls ended Monday, as the team placed the former No. 5 pick on waivers for “conduct detrimental to the team” after he criticized the NBA’s support of the LGBTQ+ community. Ivey, traded by the Detroit Pistons before February’s deadline as part of a three-team deal, got off to a…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. George Karl shared his thoughts with The Athletic on the three best leaders he ever coached. He named Andre Miller as one of them and told a cool story about how, before a Game 7 against…