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If your team needs a starting small forward entering free agency, well … you’ll probably still need one afterward. In an NBA free-agent market with generally slim pickings, the small forward market is the driest of them all. Not a single unrestricted free agent at the position rates as being worth more than the projected…

After more than five decades of waiting, dreaming and pleading, the New York Knicks have finally scaled the mountaintop. This calls for some generational partying. An incredibly captivating playoff run culminates with a ticker-tape celebration Thursday, when these Knicks are feted by millions live from Manhattan. Expect rapture and rowdiness in equal measure. Mayor Zohran…

As the NBA world awaits a Giannis Antetokounmpo resolution, the Boston Celtics are sitting at the beginning of a critical offseason. As much success as they found while winning 56 regular-season games, president of basketball operations, Brad Stevens, left no doubt afterward that his team, which bowed out of the playoffs in the first round,…

New York Knicks owner James Dolan said during an appearance on WFAN radio Wednesday that the Trump administration has invited the team to celebrate its 2026 NBA championship at the White House and that the franchise has accepted. “We just did receive an invitation from the White House, which we accepted,” Dolan said. “We still…

SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors GM Mike Dunleavy said talks about bringing back veteran stalwart Draymond Green and Kristaps Porzingis are ongoing, but sounded optimistic about how the conversations are going heading into free agency next month. “I’ve had conversations with kind of all of our free agents,” Dunleavy said during a Wednesday news…

On Thursday, for the first time in 53 years, the city of New York will celebrate its championship-winning Knicks and shower them in ticker tape as the team parades down the “Canyon of Heroes.” For New Yorkers or anyone braving the trip into the city, it’s a chance to show appreciation to the newest winners…

Members of the NBA champion New York Knicks will be in attendance at Yankee Stadium for first pitch Wednesday night, the New York Yankees announced in a post on X. The Yankees did not specify which players would attend the game against the Chicago White Sox. The photo the club posted included stars Jalen Brunson,…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. On this date in 1994, the New York Knicks beat the Houston Rockets in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. They took a 3-2 series lead behind a monster 25-point, 12-rebound and eight-block performance by Patrick…

The NBA is on a mini heater. The interest in the NBA Finals was off the charts — as evidenced by the fact that it was the highest-rated series in nearly 30 years. The games were competitive, the intensity on the floor was palpable and the play was captivating. Most importantly, fans all over the world…

You have been fired or laid off, and your replacement immediately takes the company to unprecedented heights while receiving the universal praise reserved for the geniuses of your craft. Are you happy for that person or that employer? Human nature offers the obvious answer. If I were fired or laid off one year and my…