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The San Antonio Spurs are warning season ticket holders seeking to sell their NBA Finals seats on the secondary market not to put them on unauthorized websites and have even revoked one fan’s season tickets. One fan, Mark Burnett, posted a screenshot to Instagram of an email from another fan, warning Spurs supporters to be…

With the New York Knicks sweeping their Eastern Conference finals series with the Cleveland Cavaliers, one of the NBA’s most incredible postseason streaks of recent vintage will continue. For the 18th straight season, a former Washington Wizards player will appear in the NBA finals. You heard me. Starting with the 2009 finals between Kobe Bryant’s…

The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. Today is the 50th birthday of Earl Boykins, the second-shortest player in NBA history. He stands just 5 feet 5, but he managed to play 652 games in 13 NBA seasons. Boykins averaged…

For decades now, Michael Jordan cards have been some of the most coveted and valuable in the sports card hobby. Back when Jordan was winning NBA championships in bunches during the 1990s, manufacturers flooded the market with his basketball cards (and even some baseball, golf, movie cards, etc.). But some stood out from the mountains…

RALEIGH, N.C. — Tom Dundon walked slowly through the Carolina Hurricanes’ home dressing room, stopping every so often to offer fist bumps and words of support amid the celebration. In one hand behind his back, the billionaire owner held three hats labeled “2026 Eastern Conference Champs,” souvenirs for family and friends who joined him to…

This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering the mental side of sports. Sign up for Peak’s newsletter here. In four seasons with the New York Knicks, Jalen Brunson has averaged 26.9 points per game, earned second-team All-NBA honors three times and led the team back to the NBA Finals for the first time in…

For the last eight months, The Athletic has been investigating the threat of fixing to the integrity of sport. In this second article in the series, we look at the explosion of sports gambling in the United States, the fixing scandals that have gripped basketball and baseball, and what can be learned from Europe’s decades-long…

A year ago, one of the head coaches in the NBA Finals began his opening news conference addressing the potential status of ESPN’s top booth for NBA games. The notable moment spoke to a few items, but one was the magnitude of who calls the biggest games of the NBA season — even coaches are…

Playoff series are not won merely with talent. The secret sauce is in the matchups. So, with the NBA Finals approaching, let’s run through three matchups to keep an eye on after the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs tip off: Guarding Goliath The Knicks are now forced to answer the question that three…

Is it possible for a team from New York to be underrated? I would have thought this impossible, given the sheer gravitational pull of virtually anything New York-adjacent in the media landscape, but this year’s Knicks have me wondering. Somehow, the Knicks are four wins from the title after having just about zero hype all…