LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky has landed the top available player in the college basketball transfer portal, and Mark Pope’s program will now be considered a national contender going into the 2026-27 season.

Former Iowa State standout Milan Momcilovic, who pulled out of the NBA draft just hours before the withdrawal deadline last Wednesday ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mike Breen’s recent interactions with Knicks fans have gone a little differently than they did during the decades prior.

Breen — a voice of the Knicks since 1991, including for MSG Networks since 1998 — has had a front-row seat for so many of the franchise’s highs and lows, including the 27-year NBA Finals drought that will...Read more

NEW YORK — Knicks center Mitchell Robinson did individual work at practice again on Monday, two days before Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

Robinson underwent surgery last week for a broken pinkie finger on his right hand.

“I’m waiting on the medical staff to let me know what the next step is,” coach Mike Brown said Monday after practice in ...Read more

SAN ANTONIO — If the Spurs win a first quarter, eight times out of 10 they go on to win the basketball game. That’s bad news for a Knicks team that’s built a poor habit of playing catch-up after slow starts both in the regular season and in the playoffs.

The Spurs have been the NBA’s most dominant first-quarter playoff force: They are 8...Read more

NEW YORK — Karl-Anthony Towns unknowingly manifested this NBA Finals matchup.

Back in October of 2024, Towns arrived at his first preseason game as a Knick wearing a 1999 NBA Finals T-shirt.

Towns had found the shirt — featuring images of Latrell Sprewell and Tim Duncan — while vintage shopping in Charleston, S.C., days after the Knicks ...Read more

Months after the end of his endorsement deal with Under Armour, Steph Curry has a new partner: Chinese company Li-Ning.

The Warriors’ superstar published a video on social media Monday heralding the deal, which centers around his Curry Brand. ESPN reported that the contract is for 10 years, but financial details have not been released.

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Before he’s officially introduced as the next head coach of the Magic, Spurs assistant coach Sean Sweeney will have an opportunity to help San Antonio capture a championship.

Sweeney and the Spurs pulled off an impressive victory on the road in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals at defending champion Oklahoma City on Saturday night, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Magic haven’t won a playoff series in 16 years.

Think about that for a second.

Sixteen years.

That’s an entire generation of Magic fans who have grown up hearing stories about Dwight Howard, Stan Van Gundy and the franchise’s glory days without ever truly experiencing any joy themselves.

And yet, despite ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The first thing everyone should know about Mike Gansey is that he was a hell of a college basketball player. The second-leading scorer on those John Beilein-coached, Kevin Pittsnogle-led West Virginia teams of the early aughts, Gansey dropped 18 points in the Mountaineers’ Sweet 16 loss to LaMarcus Aldridge and Texas on a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Before he and two of his best students began figuring out how to stop NBA teams from tanking, T.J. Highley, the chair of La Salle University’s math and computer science department, thought they would take on a less challenging problem: the security of American elections.

It seemed a perfect research project for the summer of ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — When Joe Lacob stood at a podium in 2023 and declared his WNBA expansion team would win a championship within its first five years, it sounded like standard-issue, hubris-soaked bluster from a Silicon Valley billionaire.

Turns out, he might have been sandbagging.

Because the Golden State Valkyries haven’t just arrived.

No,...Read more

MONTVILLE, Conn. — Morgan Tuck was still weighing her college choices on Nov. 16, 2010, when she took her seat behind the UConn bench in Hartford at what is now known as PeoplesBank Arena.

“It’s kind of what sold me on going to UConn,” Tuck said. “I came up for a visit, and it was UConn playing Baylor and it was sold out, 16,000 ...Read more

NEW YORK — Backup Knicks center Mitchell Robinson did not break his right pinky finger during practice at the team’s Tarrytown training facility on Thursday. And he didn’t suffer the injury during the Knicks’ Eastern Conference finals-clinching victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday, either.

Which means, according to head coach ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander apparently isn’t amused by a new board game that pokes fun at the Oklahoma City Thunder star’s reputation for garnering foul calls at the hint of contact by an opposing player.

Last week, a lawyer representing the two-time reigning NBA MVP sent a cease-and-desist letter to sports prediction market and...Read more

Part of the rationale to legalize sports gambling was that professional athletes make so much money that they wouldn’t be tempted by bribes. It would be bonkers, the thinking went, to risk untold millions in career earnings by taking dirty dollars to throw games or manipulate statistical outputs.

Bonkers, meet Terry Rozier.

Federal ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Knicks’ long-awaited, mad dash to the NBA Finals just hit its first speed bump.

Mitchell Robinson, the Knicks’ defensive anchor and backup center helping fuel New York’s 11-game playoff winning streak, has suffered a broken right pinky finger and has no timetable for a return, a league source told The New York Daily News ...Read more

MIAMI — With the NBA’s Board of Governors on Thursday approving lottery reform to eliminate tanking, the impact of the changes could have consequences for the Miami Heat both in terms of the team’s pursuit of Giannis Antetokounmpo … or perhaps not at all.

Beyond the dramatic change in lottery odds that will punish the three teams with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Here's a bit of Dodgers trivia for the bandwagon fans in our midst: Who was the manager before Dave Roberts?

That was 11 years ago. He is Don Mattingly, who returns to Dodger Stadium on Friday as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies.

The Phillies were 9-19 when they fired Rob Thomson and replaced him with Mattingly. They are 20...Read more