Caitlin Clark says everybody making a big deal about a heated moment on the bench between her and Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White has gotten it "blatantly wrong."

"I know there's a camera on me ... but there's a lot of people out there in the media or on TV that think they know a lot of things, and they're just blatantly wrong," the ...Read more

SAN ANTONIO — How do you prepare for 7-foot-4?

“I don’t know if you can,” said Josh Hart, “because there’s not a situation that’s similar.”

It’s the question of the hour, the day — perhaps the season — for a Knicks team standing four wins from its first NBA championship since 1973.

Back then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the ...Read more

SAN ANTONIO — Jalen Brunson, meet the final boss.

And in this case, it’s not 7-foot-4 Victor Wembanyama.

It’s Stephon Castle, the Spurs’ pit bull at the point of attack and the latest defender tasked with slowing down the engine powering the Knicks’ run to the NBA Finals.

“I think what’s worked for me is trying to be physical ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The sentencing of Aspiration co-founder Joseph Sanberg to 14 years in federal prison on Monday brings the NBA a step closer to concluding its nine-month investigation into the Clippers allegedly circumventing the salary cap.

Sanberg pleaded guilty in October to federal charges of conspiring to bilk investors out of $248 million ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Dan Hurley has been a Knicks fan all his life. Favorite player: Bernard King.

But this isn’t about a Jersey City guy and a love affair with the darlings of Madison Square Garden. This is about UConn basketball family, now. The Knicks may be in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, may be going for their first ...Read more

NEW YORK — Knicks president Leon Rose took a calculated risk.

It was December of 2023, and an ascendant Knicks core was only eight months removed from the franchise’s first playoff-series victory in a decade.

But to achieve a higher ceiling, the Knicks needed a go-to defensive stopper.

They needed a third scoring option who could better ...Read more

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