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From the start of his NBA career, it was important for a reporter to consider one question above all others when speaking with OG Anunoby: How much of this is schtick? From the moment the Toronto Raptors drafted him in 2017, Anunoby offered up a mix of cliches and sentence fragments when sharing his thoughts.…

The greatest comeback in NBA Finals history didn’t hinge on a blown boxout, a straight-line runway for OG Anunoby to tip in Jalen Brunson’s missed game-winner. It didn’t come down solely to De’Aaron Fox’s decision to try and race to the rim instead of pulling the ball back out to burn clock and wait for…

If early in the third quarter on Wednesday night — when Madison Square Garden was most miserable — you put $100 on the Knicks to come back and win Game 4 of the NBA Finals … You still wouldn’t be rich enough to sit courtside with Spike, Timmy, Jerry and Taylor, but you could probably…

This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering the mental side of sports. Sign up for Peak’s newsletter here. Tom Crean was the head coach at Indiana, where he coached OG Anunoby for two years. He is now an NBA and college basketball analyst. This was coming. I watched Game 4 of the…

The New York Police Department arrested 15 people and released another 41 with criminal court summonses Wednesday night, as crowds gathered outside Madison Square Garden during and after the New York Knicks’ comeback win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Objects that appeared to be eggs were also thrown…

It’s a few days after Christmas in 2017, and the Minnesota Timberwolves have just blown a 20-point lead to the Milwaukee Bucks, snapping a five-game winning streak. Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau is frustrated as he speaks outside his team’s locker room inside the BMO Harris Bradley Center. His young team had just blown a game…

NEW YORK — I used to believe in karma. I don’t anymore. I never believed in destiny. I do now. These New York Knicks have melted my brain. They’ve made me reconsider my philosophies on life. I’m convinced that this team has been selected by a higher power to be the chosen ones. It’s the…

NEW YORK — They were running and hugging, screaming unintelligible words and chanting “OG! OG! OG!” in the key of ecstasy. They were bouncing on their feet late Wednesday night, while some remained as still as humanly possible to steady their phones so that their recordings wouldn’t look as if an earthquake had just hit…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. The Knicks are one win away from their first NBA championship in 53 years. I saw fans lose their minds up and down Manhattan after the game. I saw Iman Shumpert in the tunnels of MSG,…

The play-by-play announcer describes “who” and “what.” A general sense of which players are performing acts germane to the goal of winning a game or match, often punctuating or supplementing important or exciting moments with specific words or volume or intonation. The analyst gives nuance and context to those acts performed. The “how” and “why”…