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☆ The NBA’s No. 1 Pick Doesn’t Guarantee Anything. Even If It Gets You Victor Wembanyama.
  + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones, d008c3db Organizations: wembanyama
☆ Victor Wembanyama Is Finally Selected No. 1 by San Antonio in the NBA Draft
  + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones, d008c3db Organizations: wembanyama
☆ NBA Suspends Ja Morant for 25 Games After Second Gun Video
  + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Ja Morant was suspended for the first 25 games of the upcoming season. Photo: Petre Thomas/USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConThe NBA suspended Memphis Grizzlies superstar Ja Morant for the first 25 games of the upcoming season, the league announced Friday, following his appearance in an Instagram Live video that showed him posing with what appeared to be a firearm for the second time in less than two months.
Persons: Ja Morant, Petre Thomas Organizations: Sports, Reuters Con, NBA, Memphis Grizzlies
☆ Michael Jordan Agrees to Sell Majority Stake in Charlotte Hornets
  + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones, michael, jordan, gabe, plotkin, rick Organizations: charlotte
☆ One Draft Pick and Years of Trust Made the Denver Nuggets NBA Champions
  + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
DENVER—When the Denver Nuggets selected Nikola Jokic with the 41st pick in the NBA draft nine summers ago, the 6-foot-11 Serbian was fast asleep. The television broadcast didn’t show the selection live, instead airing a commercial for an addition to the Taco Bell menu. Devotees of European basketball had heard rumors of a portly giant from Sombor who threw precognitive passes, but nobody claimed that the future had changed.
Persons: Nikola Jokic Organizations: DENVER, Denver Nuggets, NBA, Taco Bell Locations: Serbian
☆ It’s Basketball’s Simplest Play. The Denver Nuggets Made It Unstoppable.
  + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
MIAMI—Describing the interplay between Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray presents the same challenge as stopping it: it’s built on a language all its own. “They know how to communicate with each other without even speaking, just reading and playing off of each other,” Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone said recently. “No matter how you guard that, there’s a counter to it.”
Persons: Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, Michael Malone, ” Organizations: MIAMI, Denver Nuggets
☆ The Nuggets’ Winning DNA Can Be Traced To Their ’70s ABA Predecessors
  + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Larry Brown made this much clear: In more than half a century coaching basketball, for a long list of universities and professional franchises, he has never come across a player like Nikola Jokic. “You can’t even describe what he does,” Brown, 82, said of the Denver Nuggets’ magic show of a center. “I’ve never seen anyone pass the ball like he can.”
Persons: Larry Brown, Nikola Jokic, ” Brown, “ I’ve, ” Organizations: Denver Nuggets
☆ The Miami Heat Surprise Denver at Home to Even the NBA Finals
  + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: miami, denver
☆ The Nuggets Said They Weren’t Favorites—Then Proved They Are in Game 1 of the NBA Finals
  + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Leading up to the NBA Finals, Nikola Jokic disputed the obvious. Were his Denver Nuggets, a No. 1 seed who had won 53 games during the regular season and swept the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, favored over a Miami Heat team that had won just 44 games, earned a No. 8 seed and survived a seven-game conference-final tilt against the Boston Celtics?
Persons: Nikola Jokic Organizations: NBA, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Lakers, Western, Miami Heat, Boston Celtics
☆ He’s the Best Player in the NBA. He’s Also the Bloodiest.
  + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones, nikola
☆ The Miami Heat’s Long Shot Journey to the NBA Finals
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Miami Heat celebrate with the Bob Cousy trophy after defeating the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Photo: Adam Glanzman/Getty ImagesIn 1999, the New York Knicks became the first eight seed in history to make a run to the NBA Finals. It took a last-second floater from Allan Houston just for the Knicks to survive the playoffs’ opening round. They swept the next round, then closed out the Eastern Conference Finals without Patrick Ewing, who injured his Achilles tendon.
☆ The Thankless Job That Produced the NBA Playoffs’ Best Coach
  + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Whether it pays off in a championship or not, the Miami Heat have already gone on the strangest NBA playoff run in recent memory. They limped into the postseason as an eight seed, their regular-season record sunk by injuries and inconsistency, and got more hurt when star guard Tyler Herro broke his hand in the first playoff game.
☆ The San Antonio Spurs Win the Victor Wembanyama NBA Lottery
  + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Austin Reaves Dodged the NBA Draft—and Became the Lakers’ Secret Weapon
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A grin broke across Austin Reaves’s face at the post-game podium. The Los Angeles Lakers had just eliminated the defending champion Golden State Warriors on Friday night, and Reaves had contributed 23 points and 6 assists—both numbers second on the team only to LeBron James. He had arced in four 3-pointers (one from half court as the second quarter expired), sidestepped Stephen Curry with a behind-the-back dribble, and flipped passes to open shooters with both hands. In a sure sign of his Lakers arrival, he’d been pulled from the game early, so the Los Angeles crowd could voice its appreciation. “It was not emotional, like, tears-wise,” Reaves said, “but the feeling when we subbed out with three minutes to go was very special.”
☆ Memphis Grizzlies Suspend Ja Morant After a Second Gun Video Surfaces
  + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Memphis Grizzlies suspended Ja Morant from all team activities. Photo: Petre Thomas/USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConWhen the Memphis Grizzlies’ superstar point guard Ja Morant stepped away from the team in March after video circulated online of him dancing with a handgun at a strip club, the team didn’t use the word “suspension” in announcing the news. On Sunday morning, the club took a different tack after another Instagram Live video went viral—this one seeming to show the 23-year-old Morant posing with a gun near his face in the passenger seat of a car. “We are aware of the social media video involving Ja Morant,” a statement from the Grizzlies said. “He is suspended from all team activities pending League review.
☆ The Broken Fingers and Busted Eyes of the Boston Celtics’…Coaches
  + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Boston’s 126-102 win over the Houston Rockets, on Dec. 27, was a laugher, with the Celtics’ All-Star duo of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum racking up 39 and 38 points, respectively. The more intense competition had come hours earlier, on the same parquet floor at TD Garden. There, the Celtics’ coaching staff conducted a vicious, valorizing ritual. They played pickup basketball—or, rather, something like it.
☆ An MVP Shoves. An NBA Team Owner Falls. The Basketball World Decides: ‘Flop or Foul?’
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
In the NBA playoffs, players will do anything for an edge. But what about team owners? That question came up almost halfway through Sunday night’s game between the Denver Nuggets and Phoenix Suns. After Phoenix’s Josh Okogie sailed into the courtside seating to chase a loose ball, Denver star Nikola Jokic rushed to collect it, hoping to inbound the ball before Okogie had recovered. When Jokic tried to pry it from a spectator’s hands in Phoenix’s Footprint Center, a comedy of retaliatory gamesmanship ensued.
☆ The Game NBA Defenders Hate to Play: See Steph Run
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Late in the first quarter of the Golden State Warriors’ 127-100 win over the Los Angeles Lakers Thursday night, Stephen Curry flicked in a jump shot. If you watched the play on a highlight reel, you would have seen the familiar image: Curry whipping the ball up from his waistband and goose-necking his wrist, jogging back before the ball even dropped through the rim. But if you tracked Curry from the start of the play, you would have seen something else. Curry started near the half-court line, strolling nowhere in particular, blanketed by the Lakers’ Dennis Schröder. Then, with a sudden cut, he went around a teammate’s screen and into open air, just inside the 3-point arc.
☆ Nikola Jokic Gets More Kicks—Literally—Than Anyone in Basketball History
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Nikola Jokic has always been a spectacle on offense. Despite his non-chiseled build and lack of top-percentile athleticism—six-feet-11 and 284 pounds, without much foot speed or vertical leap to speak of—the Denver Nuggets’ center plays basketball like a ballet dancer. In the opener of their conference semifinal against the Phoenix Suns on Saturday, Jokic flung his usual inch-perfect passes and twirled through the lane, leading Denver to their first win in what became, Monday night, a 2-0 series lead. On defense, though, Jokic tends to be as lumbering as he is graceful at the other end. Most opposing dribblers can edge past the twice-reigning MVP, and almost everyone in the NBA can outjump him.
☆ Brittney Griner Expresses Hope for Her Basketball Future, Concern for Americans Still Held Overseas
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Louise Radnofsky | Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Basketball star Brittney Griner landed in the U.S. after being released from a Russian penal colony in a negotiated prisoner swap, a U.S. official said. WSJ examines the events that led to Griner’s detainment, sentencing and release, and what comes next. Illustration: Adele MorganAt a press conference that was styled more as a triumphant homecoming, the Phoenix Mercury on Thursday celebrated the return of its star player Brittney Griner after a 10-month detention in Russia. In her first extensive media availability since being released from a Russian penal colony in December, Griner pledged to fight for the return of other American detainees, without explicitly naming two in Russia whom she was specifically asked about.
☆ The Milwaukee Bucks Squander a Dominant Season With a First-Round Playoff Collapse
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Giannis Antetokounmpo stands in the center of the court after a 128-126 loss to the Miami Heat in Game 5 of a first-round series. Photo: Michael McLoone/USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConOver the six-month span of the regular season, the Milwaukee Bucks built the best record in the NBA with a formula featuring a two-time MVP pacing their attack and an airtight defense complementing it. But in the first round of the NBA playoffs, nothing was straightforward. During the fourth quarter of the must-win Game 5 of their opening-round playoff series against the Miami Heat, the Bucks failed time and again to press the advantages that had powered them to a league-leading 58 victories—or even that had let them enter Wednesday’s final period holding a 16-point lead on their home floor.
☆ Who’s Winning the NBA Playoffs? The Kentucky Wildcats
  + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
For John Calipari, recruiting season doubles as reunion season. The Kentucky men’s basketball head coach has been on the road lately, telling some of the country’s tallest and most dexterous teenagers about the charms of Lexington—a job that lands him in some useful ZIP Codes, during an NBA postseason well-stocked with former Wildcats. Calipari recently touched down in Philadelphia, where he saw Tyrese Maxey, his one-time point guard, score 33 points in a Game 2 win in the 76ers’ first-round series against the Brooklyn Nets. He has designs to get to Phoenix and Los Angeles, where he hopes to catch Devin Booker and Anthony Davis, whose Suns and Lakers hold leads in their own playoff openers.
☆ The Wildest Seat in the NBA Is the One Next to Steve Ballmer
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
There are hazards to sitting courtside at an NBA game. A player lunging after a loose ball might topple toward you, forcing a split-second decision about whether to cushion the landing or dive for safety. A spilled drink—a minor inconvenience in the 300 level—brings a delay and an arena full of impatient eyes. Sitting next to Steve Ballmer , the former Microsoft CEO and current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, involves potentially mortal danger. Chaz Fitzhugh, his longtime friend and a regular guest at the seats Ballmer keeps along the baseline, has a heart condition, which necessitates certain arrangements.
☆ The Playoff Series That Explains the NBA’s Most Explosive Scoring Season Ever
  + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
In the opener of their first-round playoff series Saturday night, the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors put together a sequence that summed up the NBA of 2023—a season in 15 seconds. With just over four minutes remaining in a one-point game, Golden State’s Stephen Curry caught a pass at the deepest corner of the court and dropped a 3-pointer over the corner of the backboard, flipping the lead. Kings guard De’Aaron Fox immediately sped down the floor, caught a pass on the wing and tossed in a triple of his own to get it back.
☆ LeBron James Just Wanted a Chance at the Playoffs. Now He’s Got It.
  + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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