While the 2025 Oklahoma City Thunder’s resume will stack up with some of the greatest of all time should they win the NBA Finals, the casual fan may still believe this team is league MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander playing the star while his teammates assume lesser roles in the production. If Monday’s resounding Game 4 victory...
MINNEAPOLIS – Longtime Minnesota Timberwolves assistant coach Elston Turner was standing in a tunnel near the court when Oklahoma City Thunder center Isaiah Hartenstein stopped to give his old coach a high-five about 90 minutes before the start of their Western Conference finals game. “I’ve coached everybody. I coached him in Houston. Some of the...
Paige Bueckers isn’t just returning to Connecticut. She’s returning to a building where some of her biggest moments were forged. The Dallas Wings rookie guard is set to play her first WNBA game at Mohegan Sun Arena on Tuesday night against the Connecticut Sun. The setting is familiar, but everything else has changed. Bueckers arrives...
MINNEAPOLIS – A two-sided pendant hangs from a lanyard around Vaughn Alexander’s neck, showcasing an NBA player dear to his heart on each side. On one side is his superstar son, 2025 NBA Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and the other is a nephew he has raised as a son in Minnesota Timberwolves guard Nickeil...
PHOENIX- The Phoenix Mercury have unexpectedly shown better bench depth through the season’s first four games. (Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images) Despite missing layups and being outrebounded by the Washington Mystics 41-26, the Mercury started the season with a 3-1 record for the second consecutive year, showcasing another impressive defensive game. Related Stories Top WNBA ROY...
MINNEAPOLIS – Surprised on how quickly the time passed, Minnesota Timberwolves forward Naz Reid solemnly reflected on the five-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer in Minneapolis. As the only Timberwolves player still on the roster since that unforgettable day, Reid distinctly recalls the challenges of that time during the coronavirus pandemic...
During the first week of the new WNBA season, the Atlanta Dream and Indiana Fever played against each other, each hosting a game—one in Indiana on Tuesday and the other in Atlanta on Thursday. The two teams ended up splitting; each achieving a road win. The question now is whether it could be a possible...
It’s Memorial Day weekend and I am spending it at session III of the Nike EYBL in Kansas City, Kan. I focused mainly on evaluating 2027 and 2028 prospects, so let’s dive in to what I seen so far. Playing Up For Expressions, Nikola Mitrovic is an intriguing long term prospect that stands close to...
Five years ago, the world changed because of the courage of a 17-year-old girl who recorded the murder of George Floyd. I spent several weeks in George Floyd Square in Minneapolis while covering the trial of the former police officer who killed Floyd, and while directing the documentary Bearing Witness: A Portrait of Darnella Frazier....
The Chi has never been just a TV show. It educates, challenges, and sparks conversations that matter to us. Created by Lena Waithe and set in her hometown of Chicago, The Chi has consistently delivered storylines that are raw, real, and rooted in something deeper than scripted inner city drama and violence. This series has...