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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants everyone in the city to watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals, no matter how late the games are, or the viewer’s age. Each finals game will start at 8:30 p.m. ET, which could lead to late nights for youngsters with school the next day. So, on…

Hall of Fame head coach Rick Adelman, who led the Portland Trail Blazers to two NBA Finals and whose 1,042 regular-season wins ranked 10th in league history, has died at the age of 79, the National Basketball Coaches Association and Sacramento Kings announced Monday. Adelman was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame…

Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry announced on social media he’s reached an agreement to take Curry Brand to Li-Ning after spending most of last season as a sneaker free agent. ESPN reported the deal is for 10 years and will have basketball, athleisure and a full golf line. Curry can also sign athletes under…

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has become the newest minority investor in the Seattle Kraken, pending NHL approval. The 61-year-old native of Dallas, Texas, has a net worth of $30 billion, according to Forbes. Gates is the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. “As a longtime Seattle resident, it means a lot to me to…

The Dallas Mavericks are heading north to build a new home. On Monday, the Mavericks confirmed they had reached a preliminary agreement to build an arena and surrounding entertainment district at the former Valley View Mall site in North Dallas, instead of in downtown Dallas. The Valley View Mall tract is roughly 12 miles north…

Victor Wembanyama, Jalen Brunson and every other player from the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks suiting up for the NBA Finals will sport a special patch on their jersey to commemorate the United States’ 250th birthday. Fanatics-owned Topps announced Monday that those patches will be removed after each game of the series, and…

The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. So many athletes try to give off the feeling that they’re unaffected by the moment, by the results and by what’s in front of them. Maybe it’s to be cool? Maybe it’s to…

When the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs met in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals, one of the biggest stories was a classic battle between two elite big men in the Thunder’s Chet Holmgren and the Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama. Both made the All-Star team this season, and they were the top two…

Every single time the DeBusschere boys attend an event at Madison Square Garden, they take a few moments to stare at their father’s name and number in the rafters. For Peter and Dennis, it is always humbling to look up and see the late, great Dave DeBusschere, No. 22, memorialized with his fellow lions from…

We’re about to party like it’s 1999. With their Game 7 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night, the San Antonio Spurs locked in a NBA Finals rematch from the lockout-shortened 1999 season, pitting the Spurs against the New York Knicks. While a No. 2 seed from one conference playing a No. 3…