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The NBA will announce the 2025-26 Coach of the Year winner Tuesday night ahead of Game 5 of the Western Conference finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Detroit Pistons’ J.B. Bickerstaff, the Boston Celtics’ Joe Mazzulla and the Spurs’ Mitch Johnson are finalists for the award. Advertisement Bickerstaff led…

Jeff Van Gundy still recalls one unmistakable sound from the Knicks’ last journey to the NBA Finals. Twenty-seven years later, he can hear the Madison Square Garden crowd chanting his name, and he can feel the goosebumps and the emotion that made his hand holding that Diet Coke tremble near the home bench. Advertisement Garden…

The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. We took the three-day weekend, came back and the Knicks were Eastern Conference champions. They await the winner of the Spurs-Thunder series, which is tied 2-2 in the West. The Thunder took back…

CLEVELAND — Players and coaches were still dressing and lingering around the arena Monday night when the owner sent the first tremor shivering across the court and into the streets of downtown. “We’re nowhere near where we need to be,” Dan Gilbert wrote on X, and suddenly, anything seems possible. The Cavaliers have another summer of…

A Victor Wembanyama rookie card that was previously the subject of some controversy sold in a private deal for $5.11 million, making it the most expensive known sale of a non-autographed NBA card. The sale of the San Antonio Spurs center’s 2023-24 Panini Prizm one-of-one Black parallel rookie card, which has a Gem-Mint PSA 10…

CLEVELAND — The smoke was only beginning to clear after arguably the worst, and certainly the most inexplicable, loss in Cavaliers’ history. National media outlets and the New York tabloids alike were pinning blame for the Cavs’ 22-point collapse in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on James Harden, who…

CLEVELAND — If the pressure wasn’t pulsating enough, if the expectations couldn’t be any more blatant, New York Knicks owner James Dolan made it clear — very clear — back in January what had to happen for his franchise to avoid a major overhaul. “Yeah, we want to get to the finals and we should…

The men’s World Cup, the biggest global event in sports history (48 teams, 104 matches in 16 cities over more than five weeks), is coming to the U.S., Canada and Mexico in June and July. The Athletic will cover it like no one else, with reporters at every game and coverage for every level of…

CLEVELAND — The journey to this moment, all of New York spellbound by a basketball team that doesn’t seem to ever lose anymore, began years ago. Before the Knicks tore through the Eastern Conference with blowout after blowout. Before the trades for Karl-Anthony Towns, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby or Josh Hart. Before the team’s captain,…

CLEVELAND — It’s been a New York minute since the Knicks last went to the NBA Finals. A perfect May changed all that. The Knicks are headed to the big dance for the first time since 1999 after they completed a sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals. New York destroyed the…