The final edition of Ballislife’s division preview series dives into the NBA’s Northwest Division, headlined by the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder. With OKC’s reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver’s three-time MVP Nikola Jokic, and Minnesota’s future MVP in Anthony Edwards, it’s hard to imagine another division in all of sports, much less basketball, than this...
The UConn Huskies are starting the 2025–26 women’s college basketball season right back where they finished last spring — on top of the sport. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images) The defending national champions were voted No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 poll released Tuesday, earning 27 of 31 first-place votes. South Carolina,...
The Western Conference’s Southwest Division might just be the most intriguing in all of the NBA this upcoming season, with a league-high four teams we project will win at least 45 games in 2025-26. The Houston Rockets begin the first season of the Kevin Durant era with sky-high expectations after earning the No. 2 overall...
The Life of Singleton: From Boyz N the Hood to Snowfall is available now from Andscape Books. In this excerpt, writer Thomas Golianopoulos details the hoops John Singleton had to go through to sell his groundbreaking film, Boyz N the Hood. CAA shopped Singleton as a writer in early 1990, introducing him to actors and...
To understand just how audacious D’Angelo’s defiantly low-fi debut single “Brown Sugar” sounded on the radio in the summer of 1995, you’d have to look back at the urban music landscape of that year. The burgeoning hip-hop soul movement, led by its queen, Mary J. Blige, was at full throttle from artists such as Jodeci...
As then-New Orleans Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram was helped off the hardwood floor after suffering a high ankle sprain on Dec. 7, 2024, he felt like he was wearing a Pelicans uniform for the last time. Ingram ended up being right. His next NBA regular-season game will be in a Toronto Raptors uniform this season....
Chicago will host the WNBA All-Star Game for the second time, having previously done the honor in 2022. Chicago will bear the WNBA’s All-Star duties once again. The league announced on Thursday that the Windy City, home of the Chicago Sky, will host the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game, with the main event moving to United...
Tristhan Williams grew up in a neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles in the 1990s that was riddled by gang activity, prostitution and crime. Through it all, she still dreamed for more during her youth with the support of her mother and inspiration of her thriving sisters. Today, the director of Season 2 of Netflix’s...
SAN FRANCISCO — As soon as Jrue Holiday had a chance, he made a point to find Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups to make something clear. While being traded from the 2024 NBA champion Boston Celtics to the young Blazers would seem like a major downgrade, Holiday told Billups he was actually “super...
Jackie Young’s journey from quiet contributor to cornerstone of a dynasty has been defined by precision, patience, and poise. Days after helping the Las Vegas Aces secure their third WNBA championship in four years, the “Silent Assassin” swapped her jersey for an apron, working a celebratory “shift” at Raising Cane’s flagship restaurant on the Las...