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How did Brown's time with the Celtics come to such an abrupt end? How did they become so open to trading him that they continued to shop him around the NBA even after a pursuit of superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo fell short?

On the night of Oct. 18, 2022, which was opening night for the Boston Celtics, the pregame festivities were as much about looking back as looking ahead. Bill Russell had died during the summer, age 88, and now the arrival of a new season would have to wait a bit until somebody from the Celtics stepped out on the parquet to take a shot at putting everything in perspective.

On the eve of free agency, the Sacramento Kings have been linked to 22-year-old All-Star in a potential sign-and-trade deal that could involve Domantas Sabonis.

LeBron James, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, is returning for a record 24th NBA season. But it won't be with the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Big 12 owned the 2026 NBA draft like few conferences in recent years. It produced the top two picks (BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and Kansas’ Darryn Peterson), nine first-round selections and 13 draftees in all – more than any conference.

Micah Nori can still remember all the details from that summer day in 1998. The seating arrangement at his parents home in Middletown, Ohio. The exact words spoken.

The Milwaukee Bucks traded Giannis Antetokounmpo, the most accomplished player in franchise history, to the Miami Heat just before the team’s self-imposed deadline of the 2026 NBA draft, league sources confirmed to the Athletic.

SAN ANTONIO – For 53 years, the Knicks had history.

SAN ANTONIO – In no particular order, the San Antonio Spurs are dealing with incidents of possible assault, of getting over the biggest meltdown in NBA Finals history and of being on the brink of elimination.

NEW YORK – It all started with the Wu-Tang Clan.

The Knicks began NBA Finals Game 4 with the intention of getting Karl-Anthony Towns the basketball and letting him go to work.

NEW YORK – For the first time in NBA Finals history, a sitting U.S. president was in the building to watch. And for what only seems like the first time in history, the Knicks finally lost a playoff game.

Jalen Brunson didn’t play his best game.

SAN ANTONIO – Victor Wembanyama walked off the Frost Bank Center court sporting something every great player eventually wears.

SAN ANTONIO — The New York Knicks have no plans to ever lose again, do they? They have turned a wild fantasy into the sweetest of realities, and notarized it over and over and over.

Karl-Anthony Towns turned the corner, drove baseline and met the longest player in basketball at the rim.

SAN ANTONIO – By the fourth quarter, both Victor Wembanyama and Jalen Brunson had shaken off their respective mediocrity and snapped on their capes. Game 1, the tone-setter of the NBA Finals, sat available for the taking like a last slice of pizza. And what had been a beautiful struggle between the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks evolved into a dramatic climax.

For most of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, it did not look like Jalen Brunson was about to deliver anything close to a signature performance.

Jack Sikma wasn’t the first center to shoot a jump shot, but he might have been the first one to realize he could be a more effective player going backward than forward.