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Patrick Ewing has a memorable 7-foot stature, notable smile and his No. 33 Knicks uniform hangs in the rafters at Madison Square Garden. But all of that, evidently, isn’t enough for the arena
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Colin Kaepernick's jersey from his NFL debut with the 49ers just sold for a whopping $128k ... the highest price an NFL jersey has EVER fetched at auction.
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Tristan Thompson is all about changes these days ... and he's just changed his citizenship to the U.S. of A.
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He’s more than a little bit country. Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler — who’s playing in the Eastern Conference Finals — has made a guest playlist for SiriusXM and Pandora of his favorite tunes, all of which are country songs. He’ll be a guest DJ for SiriusXM’s The Highway channel on Friday. Butler recorded the …
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Smoke billowed out of tenement-building windows on East 101st Street. An up-stretched fire ladder reached the sixth floor. On the asphalt basketball court below, four kids, oblivious to it all, competed in a feverish game of two-on-two. That moment, frozen in a photo, conveys a lot about East Harlem in the 1970s: Buildings blazed and …
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Legendary former Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson died overnight at age 78, according to multiple reports. The first Black coach to lead his team to the NCAA men’s basketball championship, Thompson coached Georgetown from 1972-99, compiling a 596-239 record. He was a pivotal figure in the formation and rise of the original Big East Conference. …
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NBA players voted to continue their season in a meeting Thursday morning, one day after the Milwaukee Bucks decision not to play in their playoff game against the Orlando Magic in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake set off a domino effect of postponed games in the league. The Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City …
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“Basketball Wives” reality foes Tami Roman and Jennifer Williams are going at it again. Roman took a dig at Williams after her ex-boyfriend and “Welcome to Sweetie Pies” star Tim Norman was arrested in a murder-for-hire plot this week. When Norman was nabbed for allegedly conspiring to have his nephew Andre Montgomery killed to cash …
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Texas Tech women’s basketball coach Marlene Stollings has come under fire for creating what players described as a “toxic” environment that allegedly included sexual harassment, name-calling and a stolen dog. Former Texas Tech center Emma Merriweather alleged that Stollings confiscated her dog and gave it to a booster, according to a USA Today report. Merriweather …
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The National Basketball Association received multiple employee complaints that instructors at NBA academies in China were physically abusing pupils, and that students were not receiving proper schooling, ESPN reported on Wednesday. The NBA has established academies in China, including in the province of Xinjiang where China is currently attempting the cultural genocide of Uighur citizens, …
Patrick Ewing has a memorable 7-foot stature, notable smile and his No. 33 Knicks uniform hangs in the rafters at Madison Square Garden. But all of that, evidently, isn’t enough for the arena
