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SAN ANTONIO — The twisted thing about history is how quickly anniversaries can change meaning. For nine years, May 28 evoked a franchise-haunting what-if. Klay Thompson’s name was whispered in Oklahoma City for a decade following a Game 6 rampage for the ages. Then, a year ago, the Thunder repurposed the date, punching their ticket…

SAN ANTONIO — It was never about Victor Wembanyama ducking reporters. When the San Antonio Spurs big man chose to walk away from the cameras and microphones after his terrible Game 5 showing on Tuesday night, with his teammates left to discuss how they’d blown a chance to take the lead against the Oklahoma City…

Broken records, viral moments, rivalries, scandals and great returns. All a part of the magic of the 2025-26 NBA season. Including the playoffs, there are more than 1,200 games in a season, giving NBA fans no shortage of memorable moments to choose from. Debates are part of the fun in being a hoops fan, so…

In the late 1960s and ’70s, the black-and-white Zenith television in the Breen family home just outside of the Bronx in Yonkers always had a game on. It was a grand time in New York sports, as the Mets were pitching miracles and the Knicks won their last championships with a rotation of stars, featuring…

SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama had to set the record straight. When he dipped out on the media after Game 5 of the Western Conference finals, he was too frustrated to face the music. Even if he shirked his duties, he knew that the only thing he could do to make things right was to…

The Western Conference finals will go to a seventh game after the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder 118-91 Thursday night at Frost Bank Center. Rebounding from their 13-point loss in Tuesday’s Game 5, the Spurs never trailed in Game 6, tying the series 3-3. Game 7 is Saturday night in Oklahoma City.…

After a 2025-26 season in which tanking became more widespread than ever, NBA Draft lottery reform is here. As with any reform, however, the devil is in the details, and some of those details still had fans and league insiders asking questions. In the wake of Thursday afternoon’s approval of the league’s “3-2-1” proposal, three…

San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama walked into a win-or-go-home Game 6 of the Western Conference finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder dressed in a green Shaolin robe, in an apparent nod to a well-documented period in his offseason training. As reported by The Athletic and other outlets, Wembanyama spent time training at a Shaolin…

NEW YORK — New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson broke his right pinky finger earlier this week, and there is no timetable for his return, league sources told The Athletic. It is unclear how Robinson suffered the injury. The news comes on the heels of New York reaching the NBA Finals for the first time…

Federal prosecutors allege that veteran guard Terry Rozier accepted a payment worth about $100,000 from a sports gambler to take himself out early from an NBA game while he was playing for the Charlotte Hornets. The allegations come in an indictment filed Thursday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.…