Time has not been kind to the Phoenix Suns. Seven days ago they appeared to be on an inexorable march toward their first championship in franchise history while slapping the Milwaukee Bucks with double-digits losses and reducing Giannis Antetokounmpo to a...
Stephen Curry became the oldest scoring champion since Michael Jordan in 1998, finishing with 46 points as the Golden State Warriors held off the Memphis Grizzlies 113-101 on Sunday in a regular-season finale that determined the play-in tournament’s eighth and ninth...
The Los Angeles Lakers won’t have home-court advantage in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. They need help if they’re going to escape the play-in tournament. Worse yet, their invitation to the postseason isn’t even guaranteed. The defending NBA champions might be...
One day after the Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said he had decided not to play the national anthem before the team’s home games, the NBA says The Star-Spangled Banner must still be honoured. “With NBA teams now in the process of welcoming fans...
The Nets had been unbeaten against the NBA’s other perceived contenders. That is until Saturday, when they got beaten and battered in Philadelphia. After a third-quarter collapse, the Nets’ undefeated mark against the league’s top teams went by the wayside...
As president/coach of Minnesota, Tom Thibodeau once dispatched Zach LaVine to Chicago in a 2017 trade for Jimmy Butler. But the Knicks coach sounded like he wouldn’t mind reuniting with the current Bulls shooting guard, noting his improvement. There’s speculation...
Belief around the NBA is increasing that Andre Drummond could get bought out in Cleveland. And if he does, he could be the perfect fit for the center-starved Nets. After The Post reported that Nets general manager Sean Marks was...
Something special is happening here. There have not been many shining moments for the Knicks against Stephen Curry since the Warriors drafted him in 2009. But this became one of them on a Thursday night in San Francisco, when the...
Kyrie Irving missed the Nets’ 122-109 win Thursday night over the 76ers, with what the team listed as personal reasons. Shortly before tipoff, Nets coach Steve Nash said he had no clue what those reasons were. Nor did he know afterward,...
Most of the buzz this morning will center around the kid, around Immanuel Quickley, whose initials — IQ — tell a large segment of his story and whose fearlessness has been something to behold during this early-season Knicks surge. It should...
