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NBA All-Star Game 2023: Location, schedule, rosters, news, more

NBA All-Star Weekend will tip off Friday, Feb. 17, with the celebrity game and Rising Stars Challenge. NBA All-Star Saturday will feature the skills challenge, 3-point contest and slam dunk contest. This year will also feature the NBA HBCU Classic with a game between Grambling State and Southern on Feb. 18. NBA All-Star voting will […]

Sports’ most unbreakable records ever

This is a milestone that is unlikely to ever be broken. For one thing, it’s Emmitt Smith we’re talking about. The man rushed for 1,000-yard seasons like clockwork basically forever. But the NFL also has changed quite a bit since then. Offenses don’t focus on running backs like they used to, and playing as long […]

Celtics deliver Joe Mazzulla win in coaching debut after turmoil

Then, he paused. “I don’t think he knew it was coming,” Jaylen Brown would later say with a smile. The “it” Brown was referring to was the water bottle shower he and the rest of his teammates gave their coach to celebrate his first victory — which was immediately followed by Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck […]

Lowe’s League Pass Rankings: The top 10 must-watch teams this season

Here we go: The top 10 in our 2022-2023 League Pass Rankings! We revealed Nos. 30-11 on Tuesday, and you can read about the rankings formula there. Look at this soul-snatcher: That is the smile of someone who knows he has you. The Mavs’ offense is one-dimensional — Luka Doncic walks ball up, runs two-man […]

Nikola Jokic: Want to be Denver Nugget’s Tim Duncan

“Grab me a grape,” the Denver Nuggets point guard said with Nikola Jokic breaking toward a fruit tray Monday at media day. With that, Jokic dished out his first assist of the season. Jokic will have his supporting cast back and healthy this season, with Murray feeling “night and day” better after missing all last […]

Who is Joe Mazzulla? Meet the interim head coach of the Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics will have an interim head coach on the sidelines this upcoming NBA season, and everyone outside of the Northeast may be wondering: Exactly who is Joe Mazzulla? In the wake of Celtics coach Ime Udoka being suspended for the entire 2022-23 season for having an intimate relationship with a female member of […]

NBArank 2022: Ranking the best players for 2022-23, from 5 to 1

NBArank is back for its 12th season counting down the best players in the league. Where are MVP candidates such as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic? What about rookies and young stars ready to take the leap into the upper tier of NBA players? To get the final NBArank prediction, we […]

NBA Finals 2022: The audacious changes that led to Brad Stevens’ new role and a Game 1 Boston Celtics win

Had anyone on the dais the day the move to elevate Brad Stevens was formalized — June 2, 2021 — been told that exactly 365 days later the Celtics would win Game 1 of the 2022 NBA Finals 120-108 over the Golden State Warriors, they would’ve found it hard to believe. That included retiring team […]

NBA playoffs 2022: The Boston Celtics not only toppled the champs — they did it against peak Giannis Antetokounmpo

They were happy to give him respect but mostly eager to say goodbye. When the Celtics arrive in Miami on Monday to start the Eastern Conference finals, they might as well have bumper stickers on their luggage: “We survived Giannis.” Already with a dazzling postseason résumé, the performance Antetokounmpo put forth in this second-round series […]

NBA 75th Anniversary Team: The biggest questions from our top-76 countdown

Michael Jordan tops the list, followed by LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson and Wilt Chamberlain. The top 10 continues with Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Tim Duncan, Oscar Robertson and Kobe Bryant. Which all-time greats were overrated and underrated? Which active player currently has the best case to be named No. 77? Our expert panel […]

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