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MINNEAPOLIS — Sitting at a high-top table in a downtown watering hole, it took longtime Minnesota Timberwolves fan Maggie Schultz a few possessions of watching Game 2 of the NBA Finals on the big screen before it truly sunk in. “This is really happening,” she said, quietly. “This makes me so happy just to see…

Fans will be prohibited from hosting watch parties outside Madison Square Garden or bringing bags into the venue during Game 3 of the NBA Finals, as MSG, the U.S. Secret Service and the New York Police Department ramp up security measures with President Donald Trump planning to attend the game Monday night. Advertisement “A strict…

Stacey King, the longtime Chicago Bulls broadcaster and a three-time NBA champion as a player with the franchise in the early 1990s, has died, the team announced Sunday on social media. King was 59 years old. The Bulls did not share a cause of death. King played eight seasons in the NBA from 1989 to…

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is keenly aware of the effect of this magical New York Knicks’ NBA Finals run. “This moment means everything for so many across the city,” Mamdani told The Athletic in a recent interview. “It feels like the transformation of the world’s greatest city into the world greatest small town,…

SAN ANTONIO — The biggest upset through two games of the NBA Finals isn’t that the New York Knicks won both on the road against the 62-win San Antonio Spurs, or that New York’s Karl-Anthony Towns, thus far, has outplayed Spurs’ larger-than-life big man Victor Wembanyama, or that a guy who got cut by the…

SAN ANTONIO — Long before that shot in Detroit last postseason, prior to scoring 13 points in about seven minutes in Game 1 of the NBA Finals and just earlier than the college national championships, Jalen Brunson — suppressor of pressure, maestro of chaos — was a nervous wreck before a high school state championship…

You are, of course, allowed to roll your eyes at the prospect of reading yet another profile of a celebrity NBA fan. And especially a celebrity New York Knicks fan. In contrast, I will now fanboy my socks off because Edie freaking Falco is on the phone. The four-time Emmy Award-winning actress — the fierce…

NEW YORK — Sir Isaac Newton would like a word about these NBA Finals. In a postmortem sort of way, of course. Since the famed polymath taught us 340 years ago how “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction,” and this storied New York Knicks franchise that hasn’t won it all in…

This is the time of year when coaches in European football’s top-five leagues can finally catch their breath, raise a glass and give thanks for surviving the season in their jobs. OK, perhaps the scene doesn’t look quite like that. Top-level coaches typically rank higher than the human average on the self-belief scale — if…

Five sales topped $1 million in May as the sports card market continues to experience unprecedented price growth and sales volume. The $5.11 million private sale for one of Victor Wembanyama’s most important cards was the highlight of May, landing just days before the San Antonio Spurs secured a spot in the NBA Finals against…