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Darvin Ham, Patrick St. Andrews and Joe Boylan are all expected to join recently hired Milwaukee Bucks head coach Taylor Jenkins’ staff for the 2026-27 season, league sources tell The Athletic. Ham is a former NBA head coach who compiled a 90-74 record in two seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. He helped lead the…

SAN ANTONIO — Nestled inside Jared McCain’s travel bag is a relatively new copy of W. Timothy Gallwey’s “The Inner Game of Tennis.” The old copy McCain bought in high school unraveled last year, marked by spills and wear. But he salvaged a memento. A tattered fragment of Page 21, which McCain calls “the rose…

SAN ANTONIO — Subtlety and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander don’t spend much time together. He’s a neon personality with an extravagant game and an unapologetic disposition. But his deconstruction of the San Antonio Spurs in Oklahoma City’s 123-108 win on Friday in Game 3, seizing control of the Western Conference finals, was shrewd enough to overlook. A…

SAN ANTONIO — Most of the San Antonio Spurs roster has never played in a moment of this magnitude. However, there is one player who has had his back against the wall on the biggest stage and prevailed. Harrison Barnes trailed LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers 2-1 in the 2015 NBA Finals. He was…

A young Shaquille O’Neal taught an even-younger me what bass sounded like. When the generational big man drove near the Orlando Arena parking lot for that night’s Magic game back in the mid-‘90s, the world shook. He had a variety of different customized cars, including a lot of Suburbans with the Superman logo emblazoned on…

The Oklahoma City Thunder took the lead in the Western Conference finals against the San Antonio Spurs by showing just why they have been so formidable all season: Two-time MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led a team effort of such depth and versatility that just one of Oklahoma City’s role players managed to outscore the entire Spurs…

Facing a 15-0 deficit early in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals Friday night, the Oklahoma City Thunder didn’t panic. Instead, the defending champions did what they always do: defend, attack relentlessly and lean on their depth, throwing waves of athleticism at the San Antonio Spurs. By halftime, the Thunder had turned that early…

SAN ANTONIO — The Spurs have their guards back, as both Dylan Harper (right adductor) and De’Aaron Fox (right ankle) were cleared to return for Game 3 of the Western Conference finals Friday night. Meanwhile, Thunder forward Jalen Williams, who reinjured a hamstring in Game 2, is officially out for Game 3. Williams went through…

They are currently the fiercest of competitors, facing off in the 2026 Western Conference finals. But for one celebratory moment on Friday, the San Antonio Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama and the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Chet Holmgren were named members of the same team. Wembanyama and Holmgren headline the 2025-26 NBA All-Defensive First Team, which was announced…

For the first two games of the Western Conference finals, the San Antonio Spurs have turned to rookie Carter Bryant to get stops. But this a story about Bryant needing to go. During Game 2 Wednesday night, Oklahoma City Thunder fans encountered the unusual sight of the in-uniform 6-foot-6 Spurs forward using a public restroom…