DETROIT — The president is leaving, the athletic director is leaving, the football coach has barely been around long enough to get his name on a parking spot. And understandably, the basketball coach is furious.

Of course Tom Izzo is much more than Michigan State’s basketball coach. He’s the face of the school, the emotional touchstone. ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is defending his decision to schedule the NBA champion Knicks ticker-tape parade for Thursday, even though NYC students will be taking their Regents exams.

The date, which was selected in partnership with a coalition that included the Knicks organization, the NYPD and other city agencies and ...Read more

CHICAGO — Change is nothing new for Tiago Splitter.

That was an important factor when the Chicago Bulls decided to hire the former Portland Trail Blazers interim coach to helm the franchise’s next era. After taking over a team in tumult last fall, Splitter spent this past NBA season proving he wouldn’t flounder in uncharted waters.

For ...Read more

LAWRENCE, Kan. — With the NBA draft just about a week away, one thing is clear: Kansas star Darryn Peterson wants to be picked first overall by the Washington Wizards.

According to ESPN’s Jeremy Woo and Shams Charania, Peterson has reportedly only visited the Wizards and does not plan to work out with any other team. According to the report...Read more

DETROIT — Tom Izzo is "ashamed." "Disgusted." "Hurt," he said. And it has nothing to do with a performance on the basketball court. Instead, it’s the state of Michigan State leadership.

Izzo sounded off on the loss of Athletic Director J Batt to Kentucky and the impending departure of President Kevin Guskiewicz to Clemson University in a ...Read more

NEW YORK — The New York Knicks are underdogs again — already.

Days removed from winning their first championship in 53 years, the Knicks hold only the fourth-best title odds among NBA teams for next season, according to the DraftKings sportsbook.

The San Antonio Spurs, at +250, are the early favorites, followed by the Oklahoma City Thunder...Read more

NEW YORK — The New York Knicks, fresh off their first NBA Championship since 1973, are heading from the court to the “Tonight Show” as part of their long-awaited victory lap.

The Knickerbockers’ Finals MVP Jalen Brunson, as well as Karl-Anthony Towns, OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges and Head Coach Mike Brown — and “the rest of the Knicks ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In a Rock Hill, S.C., restaurant last Wednesday night, during a recruiting road trip to the Nike 100 Camp, Ashley Howard locked his eyes on a television above the bar, enthralled by the most dramatic comeback in NBA Finals history, his mind recalling a more modest rally from nine years earlier.

Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Mikal ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — All Karl-Anthony Towns needed was a chance to play in a small, low-pressure market to realize his dreams.

The Timberwolves did him a favor by trading him from the cauldron of Minnesota sports to a backwoods retreat named Madison Square Garden, which, it appears, is located on a very small island known as Manhattan. I’m ...Read more

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — It always starts with the long lines outside the arena’s entrance, and then the crunch of bodies leaning over the railings above the tunnel that leads onto the court.

A day at the office for Caitlin Clark, in this case the last she will spend in Connecticut for the foreseeable future with the Sun franchise relocating, ...Read more

Among the celebrity fans in the stands for the New York Knicks-San Antonio Spurs championship game in San Antonio on Saturday, perhaps none was more surprising than Prince Harry.

The U.K. royal attended Game 5 with Purple Heart recipient JP Lane, a U.S. Army veteran who has won six gold medals in the Warrior Games, a 15-year-old U.S. Department...Read more

NEW YORK — The New York Knicks’ 53-year championship drought is over, which means their title defense has officially begun.

They enter the offseason with eight players — including all five starters — under contract for next season, and that doesn’t include Jose Alvarado, who holds a $4.5 million player option.

It’s an enviable ...Read more

NEW YORK — At age 23, Shaquille O’Neal was swept in his first trip to the NBA Finals. So was LeBron James at 22.

Those reality checks are regularly referenced as formative stepping stones for all-time greats who went on to win four championships apiece.

It’s something Victor Wembanyama, 22, can take at least some solace in after his ...Read more

Who said a small guard can’t lead a team to a championship in this NBA?

Jalen Brunson answered Saturday night with 45 points, a road closeout masterpiece and the trophy every Knicks star before him spent decades chasing.

Brunson led the Knicks to a 94-90 win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, securing the franchise’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Knicks’ first championship in 53 years was about so much more than the players, coaches, staffers and front office who made it happen.

It was just as much about the generations of New Yorkers who endured the painful years — those who stuck with the Knicks through all of the losing.

That much was clear to the fans who ...Read more

From start to finish, the San Antonio Spurs threw everything at Jalen Brunson. It didn’t matter.

The New York Knicks finished the first quarter of Saturday’s Game 5 4 of 22 from the field with six turnovers, a sloppy start to a potential NBA Finals clinching game.

The Spurs accrued a 10-point lead at that point, blitzing the Knicks with ...Read more

For 53 years, the Knicks had history.

On Saturday night, Jalen Brunson gave them the present.

The wait ended at Frost Bank Center, where the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs, 94-90, in Game 5 of the NBA Finals and won their first championship since 1973. It ended with Brunson at the center of everything, the way this era of Knicks basketball ...Read more