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Jabari Parker wins player of year

Thursday, that combination of “what” and “who” made Parker part of a prep sports legacy when he was named the 2011-12 Gatorade National Boys’ Basketball Player of the Year. Parker was surprised with the news in his Spanish class by seven-time NBA All-Star Alonzo Mourning, who earned Gatorade National Player of the Year honors in […]

Which player has the early lead in the NBA’s MVP race?

But, like just about everything else in this pandemic-shortened season, nothing has gone quite to plan. Doncic’s Mavericks are in 14th place in the Western Conference, opening up the MVP race to a deep field of candidates, and potentially opening a path for LeBron James to win an historic fifth MVP trophy. After finishing second […]

Pacers center Myles Turner wants to unseat Giannis Antetokounmpo as the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year

WHEN MYLES TURNER was told he would miss two to three weeks after suffering an avulsion fracture in his right hand on Jan. 14, he had one reaction. “No way,” the Indiana Pacers big man told his first-year coach Nate Bjorkgren. The Pacers’ next scheduled game, against the Phoenix Suns, was postponed, giving Turner time […]

Three days in July: The high-stakes maneuvers that assembled LeBron, Wade and Bosh

WEARING AN IMPECCABLY tailored cream jacket, a light-blue button-down shirt and a jet-black tie with a contrasting platinum clip, LeBron James walked through the players’ entrance at Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena for the first time. The day before, July 8, 2010, on The Decision broadcast, James had told a national TV audience that he was taking […]

Miami Heat found their icon in Dwyane Wade

“I was really disturbed by him leaving, and I take full responsibility for that, putting him in a position we should not have put him in,” admits Riley, the longtime Heat president. “The biggest regret that I have and mistake that I made with Dwyane, our franchise guy — who sacrificed, not only gave up […]