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The NBA free-agent market in general isn’t good, but it’s stronger at shooting guard than at most other spots. Austin Reaves is an All-Star-caliber lead guard who will be a true unrestricted free agent, Norman Powell is also unrestricted while coming off an All-Star season, and players like Coby White and Ayo Dosunmu are valuable…

A few hundred lucky New York Knicks fans will have a chance to see the newly minted NBA champions up close after the team’s ticker-tape parade in New York City on Thursday. The city and Mayor Zohran Mamdani are giving out 600 free tickets to fans to attend a ceremony on the City Hall plaza…

Add another crowning NBA achievement to the New York Knicks’ triumphalism. As expected based on the massive audiences through the first four games, the 2026 NBA Finals finished as the league’s most-watched championship series since the final installment of Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls era. Despite going only five games, audiences were enthralled by the matchup…

The Utah Jazz are “genuinely torn” between selecting AJ Dybantsa, Cameron Boozer or Darryn Peterson one week away from the NBA Draft, league sources told The Athletic. Dybantsa, Boozer and Peterson are the consensus top three players on the board. The Jazz hold the No. 2 pick while the Washington Wizards hold the top pick,…

In the end, James Dolan won.  After years of criticism of him, of contempt toward him, of wars with him, Dolan won. The New York Knicks — literally his Knicks, the franchise he and his family have run and owned for some 30 years — are NBA champions. It may be all that matters. Winning…

NEW YORK — After the greatest shot in his franchise’s history, putting the New York Knicks one win away from ending 53 years of misery, Josh Hart sat at his locker alone. Frozen. Physically, Hart was unwinding in his happy place. Mentally, though, his mind couldn’t leave the “what if?” “Thank God for OG,” he…

Hello? Anyone here? NBA free agency starts at 6 p.m. Eastern on June 30, but in the last decade, the prominence of this date has taken a serious nosedive. The reason: Nobody good changes teams this way anymore. Rule changes on unrestricted free agency have incentivized both teams and players to agree to extensions long…

BOSTON — Here are three ways to watch all the fantastical sporting events — World Cup! Team USA! The NBA Finals! The Stanley Cup final! — that have been going on throughout North America this month:  1. You can sit in a darkened room, alone, as in no family, no friends, no pets. The shades…

The NBA and Charlotte Hornets told federal prosecutors they prefer veteran guard Terry Rozier continue to be prohibited from contacting current and former members of the Hornets while he remains out on bond and awaiting trial on four charges stemming from a federal investigation into alleged NBA gambling and insider information trading. Advertisement Last week,…

SEATTLE – The musical accompaniment to the team walkouts at the FIFA World Cup might be a little jarring to local sports fans, especially those of a certain age who follow the NBA. As soon as I heard the music before today’s game between Belgium and Egypt, I turned to my colleague Jerry Brewer, another…