By Marc Stein, The New York Times The NBA stuffed a lot . It was a decade bookended from the very first forays into free service for LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard, the two of whom shook the league with all the decisions they made and the manner in which they left them. It was
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It wasn’t the dagger. It was the spin. The nadir might’ve include 2:30 left in the third quarter, even when Trae Young chose the ball past the timeline along with shimmied past Nuggets shield Will Barton into receptive real estate along the ideal elbow. Young, the Atlanta Hawks’ supercilious second-year shield, stopped and hauled a
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TORONTO — There has been a time, at the ago, when Masai Ujiri could have been labeled a heretic, a lunatic or possibly both. In the minutes following the Toronto Raptors advanced to the NBA Finals using Saturday’s Game 6 win, the franchise’so president, even using a sheet of confetti still napping on his shoulder,
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After hitting a trick shot that would’ve done Larry Bird proud to beat Dallas in the buzzer, Nikola Jokic pulled on his “Baywatch” boxers in the Pepsi Center locker room and acted as if his heroics were as pure dumb luck as purchasing a winning lotto ticket with the last dollar in his pocket. “Lucky
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Even the NBA on Thursday release its yields for the all-star vote and also for the third straight week, Nuggets center Nikola Jokic is sitting in the No. 7 spot. He is seventh among Western Conference frontcourt players, falling farther behind No. 6-ranked Steven Adams of the Thunder. Jokic, 23, is directing the Nuggets in
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Warriors celebrity Stephen Curry didn’t mean . Curry told ESPN this week when he questioned to a podcast if astronauts landed on the moon, remarks that sent interpersonal networking he had been joking. He also said he’ll accept NASA’s invite to tour the lunar laboratory at the Johnson Space Center at Houston. “Obviously
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