| 单词 | professional basketball |
| 例句 | They liked Rick, who showed them how professional basketball players took foul shots, and how to throw curve balls. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I was expecting something close to the fancy Jefferson Academy auditorium, but this place is more suited for a professional basketball team. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Didn’t you want to go to college to play ball so you could get a chance at professional basketball? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Does someone who is five foot six have a realistic chance of playing professional basketball? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Beatrice Leep lived with her father, a former professional basketball player with gimpy knees, a beer gut, and not much enthusiasm for steady work. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I met real estate developers, agents, heiresses, fund managers, lawyers, clothing designers, professional basketball players, photographers, movie producers, and television correspondents. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Back then I thought that someday I might be a professional basketball player. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Below, Kuo discusses how letters to a friend put her on track toward writing “Reading With Patrick,” how her role in the book changed over time, how a professional basketball player inspired her and more. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Reading With Patrick’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z It’s a good time to check in on professional basketball. Perspective | ‘Greek Freak’ Giannis Antetokounmpo outshines LeBron James so far this season 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Neilson said that he is talking to two possible new clients, professional basketball players, and that he wants to create an organization in Los Angeles modeled after the Robin Hood Foundation in New York. Charity Fixer to the Stars 2010-12-04T00:12:00Z In April, Steve Koonin, the head of Turner Entertainment Networks, left the company to become chief executive of the Atlanta Hawks professional basketball team. Turner management shake-up continues with Michael Wright exit 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z At the time, Patti was unhappily married to a professional basketball player and living in Southern California with her three young children. Sharon Tate: Unwitting victims’ rights martyr 2013-04-02T20:02:00Z His Uncle Bobby left a budding professional basketball career in the Philippines to work as a server in the restaurant of a retirement home in Sacramento. A Powerful Story of Coming to America, Finding Promise and Paradox 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z The Showtime Lakers, as the team was known, set a new template for how professional basketball came to be viewed on and off the floor. ‘Winning Time’: When the N.B.A. Went Pop 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z In 1991, Johnson came out as HIV positive in a speech announcing his retirement from professional basketball. Sorry, Sacha Baron Cohen, AIDS is no joke even when it’s Donald Trump who gets it 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z “The seats weren’t always this small,” remembers Fox, who began playing professional basketball in 1967, a full decade before airline deregulation. Perspective | Why tall passengers hate air travel, and what they’re doing about it 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Halberstam’s all-consuming approach to information gathering allowed him to take on just about anything, from the civil rights movement and Vietnam to professional basketball. The greatest reporter of our time, and why we should never forget him 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z After 14 seasons as a professional basketball player, including four and a half seasons with the New York Knicks and six All-Star Game appearances, he recently announced his retirement from the N.B.A. Ex-N.B.A. Star Amar’e Stoudemire Rises as an Art Connoisseur 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The professional basketball players he knew, Campbell says, didn’t have “healthy thought lives.” He’s a 6-foot-6 corrections-officer-turned-singer. And D.C.’s toddlers love him. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z And his pontifications on what he views as “the problems with America” — which he proposes are not reflected in professional basketball — are mostly just the vaguely righteous rumblings of an angry young white guy. ‘King James’ Review: We’ll Always Have LeBron 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Former professional basketball player Rex Chapman chimed in: "What kind of sorcery is this?" Kansas City Royals fan heats up internet with flaming wallet 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z MLB teams are not in a “bubble” as the professional basketball and hockey teams are. Perspective | Is football playable in a pandemic? Those with money at stake aim to give it a try. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Earlier this week, NBA legend Michael Jordan and some of his “friendly professional basketball rivals” announced the release of Cincoro, their very own line of tequila. Michael Jordan's new tequila brand features $1,600 bottle of añejo 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Bottles and glasses were thrown by both camps, leaving eight people with injuries, including Mr. Brown and Tony Parker, a professional basketball player. ArtsBeat: Promoter Offers Drake and Chris Brown $1 Million Each to Meet in the Ring 2012-06-27T17:01:40Z The evidence is everywhere: road rage, professional basketball players caught cussing on camera, cable news pundits, personal friendships disintegrating over a Facebook post on Obamacare. The Civility Wars 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z As its title suggests, Malone uses the song — a Charmin-soft rap ballad heavy with basketball references — to anoint himself the white Allen Iverson, the retired professional basketball player. Post Malone’s underage, suburban crowd was a perfect match for him 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Neilson said that he is talking to two possible new clients, professional basketball players, and that he wants to create an organization in Los Angeles modeled after the Robin Hood Foundation in New York. Trevor Neilson: Stars' adviser on giving big bucks 2010-12-04T04:38:00Z Just as professional basketball players are now allowed to compete for Olympic medals, why couldn't these more polished films contend for Sundance's main event? No second-guessing with the films or winners this year 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Ms. Constand, who declined to be interviewed, had once harbored dreams of playing professional basketball. Andrea Constand’s Story: Will It Send Bill Cosby to Prison? 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Among the more sensational allegations contained in the book is an account of a one-night stand Palin is purported to have had as a 23-year-old sports reporter with a future professional basketball player. Publisher stands by "Rogue" book despite Palin threat 2011-09-28T03:38:06Z Steele delivered an impassioned, career-capping closing argument while Constand, a Canadian massage therapist who once played professional basketball in Italy, sat in the front row. Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby sex-assault trial 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z That’s not old for a dad or a mom, but it’s old for a professional basketball player. Are the Wizards in it for the long haul? 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Georgia is known for producing many things — conflicts, wine, Joseph Stalin – but not professional basketball players. Could this man control college basketball? 2013-03-17T21:00:00Z It depicts women in careers that inmates thought were outside their reach: president, construction worker, minister, professional basketball player and others. Faith Ringgold Mural at Rikers Island to Move to Brooklyn Museum 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z With additional consideration, sports journalists and other professionals cite her story as a reason to address the expansive pay disparity between women's professional basketball players and their male counterparts. From Lizzo to Megan Thee Stallion, 2022 was the year of survival for Black women in the public eye 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Davis’s time on the basketball court doesn’t last long, but it seems filmed by someone who has never been to a professional basketball game. Review: ‘Queen Sugar,’ on OWN, Yields Family Drama 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z But in person, he has a childlike buoyancy, kept aloft by his lifelong loves of hip-hop and professional basketball and his occasional tendency to talk like an internet meme come to life. Can Hasan Minhaj Make Topical Comedy Work on Netflix? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z MON Musical performances, children's activities, keynote speaker former professional basketball player Zaid Abdul-Aziz; health resource fair with information on health issues and services from nonprofit and social service agencies, noon-3 p.m. Community calendar 2012-01-11T22:32:04Z She and Cosby first crossed paths at Temple University in Philadelphia, where Constand, who played professional basketball in Europe, worked for the women’s basketball team and he was a trustee and famed alumnus. Andrea Constand writes of Cosby trial, #MeToo in new memoir 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Constand, a former professional basketball player who worked at his alma mater, went to police a year later. Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction overturned by court 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Black professional basketball players have always stood at center court in our discussions about race and moreover, our failure to grapple with it. “Shut Up and Dribble” hits its shot: A powerful rebuttal to Laura Ingraham — and so much more 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Starz also is launching a half-hour comedy executive produced by LeBron James called "Survivor's Remorse," set in the world of professional basketball. Starz meets with 21st Century Fox about possible acquisition 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z In the U.S. there are whole industries devoted to discovering, developing and promoting college and professional basketball players. Could this man control college basketball? 2013-03-17T21:00:00Z Four kids would like to be professional basketball players. June’s Class of KidsPost: Yorktown Elementary third-graders 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The film is made by Steve James, who produced and directed the internationally acclaimed Hoop Dreams, which followed the plight of two African-American teenagers trying to become professional basketball players. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z The former professional basketball player’s face was flushed, but her eyes were dry. Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby sex-assault trial 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z In the former category would be your evolutionary biology, your professional basketball strength-training regimens, your automotive safety laws. Down with fascist iPods 2012-06-13T00:07:00Z In the 1940s, professional basketball was not as popular as baseball, boxing or college basketball. In its early years, NBA blocked black players 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z A few blocks from the White House, the MCI Center features restaurants, shops, and an arena where Washington's professional basketball and hockey teams play. D.C. Family Getaway 2011-05-06T19:20:06.683Z Just like, how are they playing professional basketball and doing this? Team USA fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad: “I’ve been detained by U.S. customs and I’m an Olympic me... 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z I jest, but with little end in sight to the NBA lockout, this is the only chance hoops fans will get to play updated professional basketball in the near term. Game On: 'NBA 2K12' only game in town; 'X-Men' dull A-Z 2011-10-17T15:43:04Z Roberson also played professional basketball in multiple countries overseas, including Colombia, where local news reports about his death hailed him as a “great figure” on the team, Titanes de Barranquilla. Friends, family mourn death of Houston’s Third Ward rapper 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Opening a plastic bin, he produced a handful of plastic noggins severed from bobblehead dolls — mostly of professional basketball players like James Harden and Sheryl Swoopes, along with the odd Michael Jackson or Muhammad Ali. Kerry James Marshall, a New Master Repainting Art History 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z "You may not be a professional basketball player," Davis said. Clippers' Davis vies for Emmy for gang documentary 2010-09-20T21:33:00Z The passage of time, when viewed like this, can be wild — more than half of James’ life having been spent playing professional basketball, with so little changing in terms of his consistent dominance. LeBron James and Lakers fall to Kings in overtime amid continued Darvin Ham tinkering 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Only injuries significantly slowed James during the end of his second decade in professional basketball. Lakers’ James is redefining NBA longevity as he approaches his 21st season 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Goddard attended Holy Cross College in Worcester and dreamed of a career as a professional basketball player. Mark Goddard, star of 1960s sci-fi series 'Lost in Space,' dies at 87 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z “It helped me prepare for the future as a professional basketball player,” Jaquez said, “to understand how to manage and handle money.” Men of Westwood seeks to keep UCLA at the forefront of the NIL arms race 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Some of them say they want to be professional basketball players, but when asked if they want to be fishermen, the answer is a resounding yes. Fishing with fear as Philippines stands up to China 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z He was going to finish college and head to the Philippines to play professional basketball in his mother’s homeland. Erik Spoelstra believes coaching in Philippines at World Cup is a perfect homecoming 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z They put the plant’s backup generator up on a block of concrete the height of a professional basketball player. When flooding rains mean untreated sewage and drinking water 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Few would not be moved by the dreams so many migrants speak of - whether it's to play professional basketball or to send money home to a struggling family or simply to escape war and violence. How the tide of migration is changing European politics 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z “We just have the privilege and honor to be its first professional basketball team,” Hammon said. Las Vegas is the center of the basketball world ahead of the WNBA All-Star Game 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The twins took the road less traveled to the NBA draft by signing with Overtime Elite, a professional basketball league based in Atlanta that’s opening another door to the pros for talented young players. Twins Amen and Ausar Thompson set to be taken in top-10 of NBA draft 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z From The Times: Why Tyrell Terry walked away from professional basketball, the millions of dollars that came with it and the identity he had spent his whole life building. Your Tuesday Briefing 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z The university fund also recently invested in an affordable housing development by The Platform, and has partnered with Henry Ford Health and professional basketball’s the Detroit Pistons on other developments in the area. Michigan State endowment fund buys 79% stake in Detroit’s iconic Fisher Building 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z “One of my dreams was to be involved in a professional basketball team,” Kroenke told The Denver Post, shortly after closing the deal for the Nuggets. Kroenke bought Nuggets, kept team in Denver, now hoping to deliver an NBA title 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Jackson’s energetic style and connections in the college and professional basketball worlds elevated hopes that Sumner High basketball players could make the leap to college scholarships. Ex-Sumner High coach pleads not guilty to allegedly sexually abusing players 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z ORLANDO, Fla. — The man who helped bring professional basketball to central Florida is trying once again to lure a Major League Baseball team to the Orlando area. Former NBA executive Pat Williams pushing to bring baseball to Orlando 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z “Lost in the Game” is an illuminating and unexpectedly poignant collection of essays, traversing the worlds of both professional basketball and pickup games. A writer apologized to me — 23 years later. A 'waterfall' of memories ensued 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Listen to the latest If You Don't Know podcast to hear more about the Manchester students' walkout and a chat with former professional basketball player Ovie Soko on life after retirement and Love Island. Campus racism: University of Manchester apologises over slurs in class 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Brittney Griner on Thursday held her first news conference since being released from a Russian prison in December, by turns tearful and upbeat as she spoke of her experience and her return to professional basketball. At emotional news conference, Brittney Griner mostly looks forward 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z None of that was predictable a half-century ago when professional basketball was mired in what Runstedtler calls its “Dark Ages.” Review | At a time when racial fears haunted the NBA, Black players were saving it 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z It long has been time to do away with age requirements for professional basketball. Perspective | There’s no good reason to keep Caitlin Clark out of the WNBA draft 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z At the opposite end of the hall — a space illuminated by 16 crystal chandeliers and bigger than four professional basketball courts — were several cardboard boxes stuffed with white campaign T-shirts. Trump’s Bet: Criminal Case Could Help His Campaign, and Vice Versa 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Players’ options for professional basketball careers are limited, whether in the U.S. or overseas - the jobs just aren’t there. Women’s pro basketball options are few after March Madness 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z The players from that team are scattered around the world, some trying to climb the ranks in professional basketball and others in careers outside the sport. San Diego State’s redemption team is living out dream of 2020 squad 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z In one instance she writes that the “racialized scripts of violence and punishment in professional basketball helped to shape conventional wisdom about the necessity of establishing ‘law and order’ in African American communities.” Review | At a time when racial fears haunted the NBA, Black players were saving it 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z “I feel like I’ve spent the longest time of my life here but also the quickest,” said Timme, who recently announced he will pursue professional basketball and skip a potential fifth year at Gonzaga. Gonzaga’s Drew Timme puts ‘stache to work with Pringles NIL deal 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Mühl said the camps helped her make the decision to attend college rather than go straight to professional basketball in Europe. March Madness has international flair for many women’s teams 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z It all makes the path to a professional basketball career for women harder than ever. Women’s pro basketball options are few after March Madness 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z He connected with Blazer through a bespoke suit maker with deep links to professional basketball. How an FBI agent’s wild Vegas weekend stained a probe into NCAA basketball corruption 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Rather than undermine professional basketball, she argues, the Black players of the 1970s and early 1980s laid the foundation for the NBA’s current success. Review | At a time when racial fears haunted the NBA, Black players were saving it 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Other investors include the New York Community Bank and Ryan Smith, the billionaire owner of the Utah Jazz professional basketball team. Black investors see purchase of Utah bank as a civil rights victory 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z In one fell swoop, Ms. Colon, an accountant in Chapel Hill, N.C., bought cruise fares for her family, airfares, tickets to Disneyland and seats at a professional basketball game. How to Keep Revenge Spending From Ruining Your Retirement 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Friday went on to have a brief career in first-class cricket before becoming a professional basketball player. 'His dad cut off the cast and he made a hundred' 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The collaboration with the professional basketball league's Chinese business arm will also cover areas such as joint marketing campaigns and digital collectables, Ant Group said. NBA, Ant Group launch strategic partnership in China 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z “The white-controlled business of professional basketball, much like the nation at large, had to reckon with rising Black demands for not just equality of opportunity but also equality of results,” she writes. Review | At a time when racial fears haunted the NBA, Black players were saving it 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Watch any professional basketball or football game and you’ll see the players embracing after a contest. Column: Column: Civil Feinstein delivered results but irked ideologues 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Abdul-Rauf was able to bounce back personally through public speaking and training professional and aspiring professional basketball players. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s protest cost him an NBA career, but ‘I’d do it again’ 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z It’s the largest compilation of greatest hits in professional basketball history, a road show unlike any that’s come before. How LeBron James claimed the NBA's scoring crown, step by step 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Johnson even had a $5 million insurance policy that he could have collected had he never played another minute of college or professional basketball. Keyontae Johnson at No. 5 K-State to face ex-Gator teammates 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Johnny Davis might be a fine professional basketball player one day. Perspective | What are the Wizards doing? No, seriously, what are they doing? 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z As a teenage student at Charles Wright Academy, Bridges also excelled in sports and had to decide between a career in professional basketball or music. A star comes home to make her long-awaited Seattle Opera debut 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Times have changed drastically in women’s professional basketball. 'We have a lot of work to do': New Sparks GM Karen Bryant prepares for free agency 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Veyah, as she is known to friends and family, had dreamed of playing professional basketball when she grew up. A firework blew up in her hand. This South L.A. teen responded with courage and resilience 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z No one really expected much from him on the court; even his father, who played professional basketball in the Dominican Republic, had trouble envisioning success after such a loss. Enmanuel, college player with 1 arm, becomes an inspiration 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z This “stirring comeback” delighted “a crowd of 15,427, which set a season’s high for professional basketball at Madison Square Garden,” Joseph M. Sheehan wrote in The Times the next day. Your Favorite Things of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Bill Russell, professional basketball’s first Black superstar and a game-changing big man who reinvented the center position with the dynastic Boston Celtics of the late 1950s and ’60s, died at 88. Those we lost in 2022: A remembrance 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Russia agreed to swap Brittney Griner, a professional basketball player who was caught with hashish oil on a trip to Moscow, for Viktor Bout, a notorious arms dealer known as the “merchant of death.” Is the Supreme Court About to Upend American Election Laws? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z "I have been spat in the face for the colour of my skin," says the former professional basketball player. Women's basketball: ‘I’ve been spat at in the face for the colour of my skin’ 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Beginning last year, it signed multiyear naming-rights deals worth more than $100 million with a professional basketball arena in Miami and for a football stadium at the University of California, Berkeley. Ordinary Investors Who Jumped Into Crypto Are Saying: Now What? 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z He was also an owner of three professional basketball teams, among them the Boston Celtics. John Y. Brown Jr., former Kentucky governor and KFC owner, dies at 88 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z In 2017, he moved to Canada for a short time to be a professional basketball player with London Lightning while KeAnna stayed in Seattle with their two children at the time. The Postman reopens after fatal shooting of Seattle business owner 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z In 1973, named chairwoman of the Kentucky Colonels after she bought a majority of the team’s stock, she became the first woman to head a major professional basketball team. John Y. Brown Jr., KFC Mogul and Kentucky Governor, Dies at 88 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z He also had owned three professional basketball teams, including the Boston Celtics. Former Kentucky governor and businessman John Y. Brown dies 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Jane Gross, a Times journalist who in 1975 became the first woman known to report from the locker room of a professional basketball team, died last week at 75. Why the Crypto Collapse Matters 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Jane Gross, a Times journalist who in 1975 became the first woman to report from the locker room of a professional basketball team, died last week at 75. Your Thursday Briefing 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Steven Gray was so certain he would return for another professional basketball season in Greece that he left many of his belongings at his in-season apartment. Former Gonzaga standout Steven Gray retires from pro ball to become AD at Muckleshoot Tribal School 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Adidas manufactures uniforms for the National Hockey League; sponsors dozens of professional basketball, baseball, football and soccer players; and outfits dozens of top-tier college athletic departments. Antisemites rally around Kanye West as pressure mounts on Adidas to drop him 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z When her husband’s dreams of playing professional basketball didn’t pan out — he played for Rainier Beach High School and, later, for Seattle University — KeAnna Pickett said he decided to become an entrepreneur. Killing of Central District business owner was part of 3-day streak of shootings, records allege 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z In a lot of ways, it’s the least that should be asked of a professional basketball team. Patrick Beverley, Darvin Ham stoke competitive fire during Lakers' preseason workouts 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Lee’s professional basketball career included brief stops with the San Diego Conquistadors of the ABA and Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA, where he was reunited with Walton. Greg Lee dies; UCLA basketball player under John Wooden who became a beach volleyball star 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The place he now finds himself, he says, outweighs his decades of good stewardship over men’s and women’s professional basketball in the Phoenix area. Perspective | Robert Sarver said he wanted forgiveness. He really wanted us to forget. 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z With the Lakers celebrating its 75th year as a professional basketball franchise, here are 75 things to know about one of the NBA’s most successful teams. Commentary: Donald Sterling saga helps show how to remove Suns owner Robert Sarver 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Roscoe is a former professional basketball player who spearheaded her development on the court. A’ja Wilson already has a statue. Now she needs a ring. 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Its national director, Aswad Thomas, planned to play professional basketball before he was shot in 2009, which ended his athletic career. Nonprofit Aims to Persuade 100,000 Crime Survivors to Vote for First Time 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z How would your result have differed if you had asked the same people to name a movie star or a professional basketball player? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z They played sports side by side, with Maurica often joking that she would have become a professional basketball player if she had her brother’s height, family said. She wanted a career investigating crime. Then she was fatally shot. 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z About a week after he returned home to the D.C. area from Turkey, where he spent the past nine months playing professional basketball, Melo Trimble received a direct message on Instagram from a familiar name. An alumni basketball league is using Terps-Hoyas as proof of concept 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The former University of San Francisco and Boston Celtics center was professional basketball’s first Black superstar who won 11 championships and five MVPs during his career. Photos: Bill Russell through the years 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z The former Boston Celtics center was professional basketball’s first Black superstar who won 11 championships and five MVPs during his career, which included becoming the first Black head coach of a major pro sports team. NBA community and others react to death of Hall of Famer Bill Russell 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Russell, professional basketball’s first Black superstar and a game-changing big man who reinvented the center position with the dynastic Celtics of the late 1950s and 60s, died Sunday at 88, according a family statement. Bill Russell, professional basketball’s first African American superstar and a game-changing big man who reinvented the center position of the dynastic Celtics of the late 1950s and 60s, has died 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Ms. Griner, a professional basketball player, is perhaps the most high-profile American to be snared by what the State Department has called dubious charges. Griner Case Draws Attention to ‘Wrongful Detentions’ 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z And that was one of many, many good signs the 19-year-old out of Duke displayed during his opening night of professional basketball. Analysis: Banchero’s summer debut was a smashing success 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The Spokane native got the opportunity to finish her professional basketball career close to home. Storm’s Briann January prepares for final trip to Indiana, where she became a star 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Instead, @b_a_l_l_h_a_u_s’s comparisons recognize professional basketball as a synthesis of labor and creativity, craft and art, practice and personality. Is That Steph Curry … or a Work of Art? 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Standing 6-4 at age 15, he believed for the first time that professional basketball was a realistic possibility. Bennedict Mathurin survived tragedy and thrived in Mexico to get to NBA 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “Rise” is a fact-based Disney drama about an immigrant family from Nigeria that lives in very difficult, impoverished circumstances in Greece until their sons rise to become professional basketball players in the U.S. What to watch with your kids: ‘Elvis’ and more 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Filled with real NBA players and TV personalities, “Hustle” captures a surprisingly authentic view of professional basketball and the people on its sidelines driven by their love for the game. New this week: Carrie Underwood, ‘The Janes,’ Adam Sandler 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z He’s toiled in obscurity for most of his 26 years in professional basketball, and suddenly he’s supposed to be ready to handle one of the most high-profile positions in sports? Plaschke: Lakers hiring of Darvin Ham is nuts — and maybe perfect 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z “Come in, come in,” Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, a former professional basketball player, said while addressing the tourists. Tirana gets ready for Europa Conference League final 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Taking inspiration from another point guard, Canada hopes to usher in the next exciting era of professional basketball in her hometown. It's showtime: L.A. native Jordin Canada takes leading role for Sparks 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Their mettle has been questioned at times, even though they have collectively played professional basketball for decades. Don’t Be Fooled by His Smile. Tyrese Maxey Can Ball. 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Stewart credits Xargay, a retired Spanish professional basketball player, for managing the household and understanding what Stewart needs to play at a high level. Storm star Breanna Stewart grateful to have added ‘mother’ title to her championship resume 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z The group was founded by former professional basketball player Chris Herren. Alabama transfer opens up about mental health struggle 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z With my dreams of playing professional basketball crushed, I had to find a new direction. Opinion | We need a new approach to crime 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Even though becoming a Hollywood director is nearly as difficult as becoming a professional basketball player, Winterbauer managed to achieve this dream. Bellevue-raised director Christopher Winterbauer on his new HBO movie ‘Moonshot’ 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z He’d spent four years bouncing around Los Angeles gyms — even living in one — just for a shot at a professional basketball career. Hoop dreams don't die on his watch. Mike Creppy finds new life for players overseas 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Stewart has accomplished so much during her relatively short seven seasons as a professional basketball player. Storm star Breanna Stewart grateful to have added ‘mother’ title to her championship resume 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z They played football at the suggestion of their father, Mark Davis, who had a 31-game stint with the Milwaukee Bucks in 1988-89 and played 13 seasons of professional basketball. March Madness: Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis rises to stardom 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Even after landmark contract negotiations to increase player salaries in 2020, the average salary for a female professional basketball player is $130,000. Perspective | A university’s men’s and women’s teams both made history this week. Guess which win Va. Gov. Glenn Youngkin noticed first? 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z King, whom Turner called along with his parents to apologize, moved on to professional basketball the next season and has since played in the N.B.A. and its G League. A Coach’s Homophobic Taunt Forces Him to Reconsider the Weight of Words 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z He’d been scammed, swindled and sucked into the maw of the money machine that is the below-deck professional basketball world and spit out without so much as a place to live. Hoop dreams don't die on his watch. Mike Creppy finds new life for players overseas 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Griner was in Russia playing for a professional basketball league, a common off-season practice for W.N.B.A. players, who can earn salaries in overseas leagues well beyond what their American teams pay. Brittney Griner’s Impact Is Clear as W.N.B.A. Fans Await Word From Russia 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z And I’m glad that my decades of professional basketball experience have finally paid off. How Jerry Buss, Magic Johnson and the Showtime Lakers created the modern NBA 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z There are numerous professional basketball markets around the world with theopportunity to become a pro, see the world and provide for your family while doing what you love. 'I'm scared, bro': Inside Ukraine, through the harrowed eyes of two U.S. athletes 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Another women's professional basketball league — the ABL — also was starting at that time. David Stern launches game-changing WNBA in 1997 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Yet he believed his calling in life was to play professional basketball, and after two aimless years on the East Coast, Pierce back moved to Southern California to focus on training. Hoop dreams don't die on his watch. Mike Creppy finds new life for players overseas 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Another women’s professional basketball league — the ABL — also was starting at that time. NBA at 75: David Stern launches game-changing WNBA in 1997 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z He thought about the work Jaden had put into his game and the guts he showed in leaving home as a teenager to follow a nontraditional path into professional basketball. For Some N.B.A. Prospects, a Taste of the Big Time 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z While playing professional basketball abroad can be a life-changing, fulfilling, even lucrative experience, American basketball players are not immune to the trials and tribulations of local citizens in the country in which they play. 'I'm scared, bro': Inside Ukraine, through the harrowed eyes of two U.S. athletes 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Mellman said he recommended that Johnson not play professional basketball, nor participate in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, because of the intense level of physical activity both would require. AP Was There: Magic announces he has HIV, retires from NBA 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The trend was underlined when, for the first time, professional basketball players from the NBA — the American Dream Team — were the marquee stars in Barcelona. EXPLAINER: The Winter Games, a different kind of Olympics 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Little did Cloud know that encounter would prove life-changing for herself, with the possibility of altering the landscape of women’s professional basketball. Mystics’ Natasha Cloud hopes new league will be viable offseason option for WNBA players 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z "True to our intentions from the beginning, we are providing an additional opportunity for women to play professional basketball in the U.S., whether on a current roster or not." Athletes Unlimited has 11 WNBA players on basketball roster 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Europe is the biggest professional basketball market for women, and those jobs are at a premium. 'I'm scared, bro': Inside Ukraine, through the harrowed eyes of two U.S. athletes 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Johnson said he was looking forward to retirement, but would miss professional basketball. AP Was There: Magic announces he has HIV, retires from NBA 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Finding that date could be complicated, with two professional basketball teams and a hockey team occupying the arena. Grammys postpone awards ceremony over omicron COVID variant concerns 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z “I never saw a professional basketball game until I played in one,” Mr. Jones told The Post in 1998. Sam Jones, Hall of Fame shooting star of Boston Celtics dynasty, dies at 88 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z In his first professional basketball game as a 37-year-old, James definitely rumbled and the Trail Blazers crumbled in his wake, leading the Lakers to a 139-106 win behind his 43 points. LeBron James turns back clock with 43 points, 14 rebounds in Lakers' blowout win 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Typically when an American is signed to an international professional basketball team, the team buys a round-trip ticket in the player’s name. 'I'm scared, bro': Inside Ukraine, through the harrowed eyes of two U.S. athletes 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z After patiently asking for a return of professional basketball to our city for going on 14 years, there’s not even some rumors of it happening? Backtalk: Times readers sound off on Seahawks, Mariners and Sonics 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z At 16, he was the youngest professional basketball player in U.S. history. The Teenagers Getting Six Figures to Leave Their High Schools for Basketball 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Outspoken professional basketball player Enes Kanter will legally change his name to Enes Kanter Freedom to celebrate becoming a US citizen. Enes Kanter Freedom: NBA star changes name to celebrate US citizenship 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Clips from his first foray into professional basketball in Luxembourg, where he made about $1,500 a month. A Mexico City Basketball Team with N.B.A. Dreams Makes a Home in Texas 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Despite the immense ordeal Creek endured, being an American professional basketball player has been an advantage. 'I'm scared, bro': Inside Ukraine, through the harrowed eyes of two U.S. athletes 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Clips from his first foray into professional basketball in Luxembourg, where he made about $1,500 a month. A Mexico City Basketball Team with N.B.A. Dreams Makes a Home in Texas 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z A plaque was placed on the scorer’s table recognizing Turetzky, who worked more than 2,200 games to earn a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for most professional basketball games scored. Curry scores 37, Durant season-low 19 as Warriors rout Nets 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z "He took an idea and nurtured professional basketball through its formative years. It is through the efforts of sporting pioneers like Podoloff that the NBA has become an everyday part of the American sporting scene." The NBA at 75: From a very modest beginning, to a behemoth 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z “He took an idea and nurtured professional basketball through its formative years. It is through the efforts of sporting pioneers like Podoloff that the NBA has become an everyday part of the American sporting scene.” The NBA at 75: From a very modest beginning, to a behemoth 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z That was a quick lesson in the business of professional basketball. Kahleah Copper ‘ain’t no punk’ — and she’s helped push the Sky to the verge of a WNBA title 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z UCLA’s late starts this season have prompted a running joke between Kelly and reporters about what time games kick off in the Philippines, where defensive backs coach Brian Norwood’s son plays professional basketball. Beating Oregon could help Chip Kelly finally take flight at UCLA 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z He is also a former executive at Kraft Foods and Campbell Soups, and an ex-president of the Portland Trail Blazers professional basketball team. Nike Jordan boss reveals he murdered an 18-year-old in 1965 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The only scorer in franchise history, Turetzky worked more than 2,200 games, earning a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for most professional basketball games scored. Turetzky retires after 54 years as Nets’ official scorer 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z There are no publicly known cases of professional basketball players missing time because of side effects related to the vaccine, and severe side effects are rare for anyone. Most N.B.A. Players Are Vaccinated, but Skeptics Speak Out 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z She became the first woman to coach a men’s professional basketball team when she led the Texas Legends in the NBA G League in 2009. Gillen, Elmore, Lieberman to be honored with Lapchick Award 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z “I’ve always loved the Hall of Fame,” said Flack, 42, whose paying job is working in merchandising for the London Lions, a professional basketball team. Got a question in Canton? This Pro Football Hall of Fame docent will answer from London 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Joe McLean, managing partner of Intersect Capital, which manages money for several professional basketball players and golfers, said he worried that players were going to be distracted by the lure of profiting from their image. Student-Athletes Can Now Earn Money. Here Are the Pitfalls. 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z The players are seeking $26 million in damages, saying in the suit that their chances of professional basketball careers were damaged by the dismissals. Suit: Activism got players tossed from women’s college team 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z It's unclear if Thompson's comment to Odom was a joke but many online were dismayed at the professional basketball player's comment. Tristan Thompson seemingly threatens Khloe Kardashian's ex-husband Lamar Odom 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z She reiterated Friday that her dreams include attending Harvard University, playing professional basketball and working for NASA. Zaila Avant-garde wins 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, becoming bee’s first African American champion 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Shattering them in men’s professional basketball would be an important start in shattering them all. ‘I Surely Can Stand in Front of Men and Lead Them’ 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z In a statement Monday, Mr. Trump announced the show’s first four dates in Florida and Texas, which will be held in the arenas used by professional basketball and hockey teams. Bill O’Reilly: Trump tour needed because U.S. journalism failed 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Anderson asked whether I knew someone in professional basketball who could help a former star who wasn’t lucky enough to play in the more lucrative NBA. Perspective | This forgotten star died without family. The sports world made sure his burial would be different. 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z But Ionescu’s transition from college stardom to professional basketball was anything but smooth. A Triple-Double for Ionescu, and a 3-0 Start for the Liberty 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z In the Before Times, Bazemore golfed to take a break from being a professional basketball player. All hoops, no joy: NBA players describe a lonely and taxing regular season 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z For most of the past quarter-century, existential questions ruled the conversation about women’s professional basketball in America. Perspective | The WNBA once worried about survival. Now it has a bolder vision. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Steered by his father, LaVar Ball, he was playing professional basketball overseas and starring in reality shows when most teenagers were focused on prom. LaMelo Ball Talks Wild Passes, Rookie of the Year and ‘Space Jam’ 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z American rapper J Cole is set to play professional basketball for Rwandan side Patriots BBC. US rapper J Cole to play in Basketball Africa League 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z “For many years, I’ve dreamt about playing professional basketball. But the journey to get to this point has truly been the beautiful part, crossing paths with such great people: coaches, mentors, and brothers,” Juzang wrote. UCLA star Johnny Juzang enters NBA draft 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Bland’s case was part of a broader investigation involving money and influence in college and professional basketball. NCAA hits USC with 2 years’ probation in basketball 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The memories from Bryant’s last game as a professional basketball player? Kobe Bryant's 60-point final game, through the eyes of those who were there 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Not unlike their counterparts in professional basketball or football, M.L.B. club owners are largely Republican donors. Baseball Takes ‘Step Toward Where It Should Be’ With All-Star Move 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z While major league club owners are no different than their counterparts in professional basketball or football in being a largely Republican donor set, the demographics on the field are starkly different. Activism Was Unusual for Baseball, but Not for Sports 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z All of this amuses Karri Kuzma, the notion that she soon could be the mother of two professional basketball players in two different worlds. Kyle Kuzma's brother hopes to get his shot at hoop dreams — in the NBA 2K League 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z The kings are those of West’s generation, the first Black players to make an imprint on professional basketball, change it forever and assume its thrones. Perspective | The NBA doesn’t need a new logo — and it doesn’t need Kobe Bryant as its representative 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Pau Gasol is going home, announcing Tuesday that he will sign to play with FC Barcelona again and rejoin the franchise with which he started his professional basketball career more than 20 years ago. Pau Gasol says he's going home, signing again with Barcelona 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z If that didn’t convince Garnett’s peers, they all understood what might be ahead — for them and for professional basketball — after they left that hotel room. An NBA experiment lets draft prospects skip college, stay home and get paid to play 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z James is also competing at a high level at the age of 36 and it doesn’t appear that he will be finished playing professional basketball any time soon. LeBron James reacts to Tom Brady's 10th Super Bowl appearance: 'At our age, we can still dominate our sport' 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Kahlik loved watching funny YouTube videos and playing video games, and, like so many of his peers, dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player, his family said. A Teenager Went 3 Floors Down to Play Video Games. He Never Came Home. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Harfouch, 27, owns another professional basketball team in the area: the Tampa Bay Titans. The Raptors Are New to Tampa’s Basketball Scene. The Titans Aren’t. 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Even the shortest giraffe is twice as tall as the average professional basketball player. Dwarf Giraffes Discovery Surprises Scientists 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z On at least 15 occasions between 1999 and 2018, prosecutors say Stephen molested boys, often as he shared a hotel bed with them during trips to tournaments and professional basketball games. Court upholds life sentence for Iowa coach who abused teens 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z College basketball is the first major indoor sport to attempt a season without the restrictive player bubbles successfully employed by professional basketball and hockey leagues. Editorial Roundup: New York 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Shawnta spent 11 years playing professional basketball overseas, and Rogers spent large chunks of his childhood in France and Italy, hanging around practices and games. At 5-foot-2, a college guard puts up numbers that overshadow his height 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z “We never talked politics. It was always about becoming a better professional basketball team.” Kelly Loeffler, a Wall Street Senator With a Hardscrabble Pitch 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Two days later, he announced he was leaving school to pursue a professional basketball career. UW men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins on Nahziah Carter suspension: ‘I don’t take these allegations lightly’ 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The second site is at the former home of the Sacramento Kings professional basketball team. California’s hospitals filling up as virus cases skyrocket 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z The senior guard announced Friday afternoon on his Twitter account that he’s leaving the Washington men’s basketball team to begin a professional basketball career. Nahziah Carter announces he’s leaving UW men’s basketball team to begin pro career 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z The landscape of professional basketball shifted during Durant’s absence, in part because of the pandemic and social justice protests. Kevin Durant Says He’s Ready to Return. ‘It’ll Come Naturally.’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Constand, a former professional basketball player from Toronto, said she became incapacitated after taking what she thought was an herbal remedy from Cosby. Key question in Cosby appeal: Does defendant’s past matter? 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Also contributing to the accelerated rise here are a series of celebrations — especially in Southern California, where professional basketball and baseball teams recently won world championships — and a mounting case of regulation fatigue. California seemingly corralled the coronavirus. Now, cases are surging, hospitals are full and shutdowns are back. 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z While still young, Avdija has been a professional basketball player since he was a teenager. Deni Avdija makes history as Wizards select him No. 7 overall in NBA Draft 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z CJ Elleby’s decision to pursue a career in professional basketball, rather than return to school for his junior season, paid off the Washington State forward Wednesday night. WSU Cougars’ CJ Elleby selected by Trail Blazers with 46th pick of NBA draft 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z She was the first woman to coach a professional basketball team in the U.S. with the G-League’s Texas Legends in 2010. Kim Ng the latest breakthrough for women in male-dominated pro sports 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z His father, Ken, played professional basketball on teams in Bolivia, Iceland and Australia and from a young age it looked as if his son would follow in his footsteps. U.S. sends young, talented squad to face Wales in Swansea 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The Hall of Fame player, who retired from professional basketball, has a long history of business dealings beyond sports, having invested in Google and Ring before it was sold to Amazon. Shaquille O’Neal teams with former Disney executives in new acquisitions company 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Tarantulas are fuzzy, active in the dark and troublingly large — with some South American species tip-tapping around on leg spans bigger than the hands of the most gargantuan professional basketball players. Why So Blue, Tarantula? A Mystery Gets a New Clue 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Hosk, 31, played professional basketball in Sweden before moving to New York and modeling for brands such as Victoria’s Secret, Dolce & Gabbana and Dior. Supermodel Elsa Hosk is selling her artsy SoHo loft for $3.5 million 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Even in normal circumstances, it would be disruptive for anyone to be isolated on a campus just to play professional basketball. The Celtics Got Angry After Game 2. It Worked, to the Heat’s Dismay. 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z He spoke about race and culture, agency and ownership, showing the students “High Flying Bird,” a movie about an agent negotiating his way through a professional basketball lockout. At N.Y.U., Explaining an Unraveling World Through Basketball 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Open, in solidarity with athletes in professional basketball, baseball and soccer who were protesting systemic racism and police violence. Naomi Osaka, While Rallying for Social Justice, Wins U.S. Open Title 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z After starring and scoring with the mostly hapless Charlotte Hornets, Walker is about to compete in the Eastern Conference finals, by far the most important professional basketball of his career. For Celtics guard Kemba Walker, advancing to East finals 'a special feeling' 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z By the 1960s, they were the main shoe of professional basketball players, though they fell out of use as shoe technology improved in the 1970s. Kamala D. Harris goes viral — for her shoe choice 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The next day, Ewing — the pupil turned coach of the Hoyas — began answering text messages from former teammates and others throughout college and professional basketball as news of Thompson’s death began to circulate. Patrick Ewing and John Thompson were Georgetown family members for life 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The events took on added significance when the Milwaukee Bucks, the professional basketball team in the city 40 miles north up the shore of Lake Michigan, led what effectively became a league-wide strike. Kenosha's shocking week of turmoil sparks starkly different reactions 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z It became urgent when Mr. Keshinro, who plays professional basketball overseas, suddenly returned home early, Ms. Toussaint said, and the apartment felt even smaller. New Yorkers Are Fleeing to the Suburbs: ‘The Demand Is Insane’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z KISSIMMEE, Fla. — In the two weeks before the novel coronavirus pandemic shut down professional basketball, Michele Roberts closed on a house in New York’s Harlem neighborhood and publicly announced a search for her successor. Michele Roberts was set to retire. Then the coronavirus pulled the NBA players’ union chief back. 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z He suffered two gunshot wounds that pierced his lung, dislocated his shoulder, and ended his burgeoning professional basketball career. 'We can stop the cycle': crime survivors work toward prevention, not policing 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Gifted at sports and music, he considered becoming either a professional basketball player or playing clarinet in a big jazz band. Earl Davie, co-founder of ZymoGenetics and pioneer in blood-clotting research, dies at 93 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The former Minnesota Lynx star stepped away from professional basketball prior to the start of the 2019 season for the same reasons as Montgomery. WNBA's Renee Montgomery opts out of 2020 season to focus on social justice fight 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Background: Played professional basketball for three years in Latin America. 'Streets raised us. Horses saved us.' Why the Compton Cowboys ride 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Health protocols, risk tolerance, media ethics and social justice will shape the viewing public’s reintroduction to professional basketball. Analysis | The NBA has a plan for the playoffs. But so many questions remain. 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Stephen Jackson, a retired professional basketball player from Port Arthur, Texas, met Floyd a year or two before Jackson joined the NBA. George Floyd, From ‘I Want to Touch the World’ to ‘I Can’t Breathe’ 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Stephen Jackson, a retired professional basketball player from Port Arthur, Texas, met Mr. Floyd a year or two before Mr. Jackson joined the N.B.A. George Floyd, From ‘I Want to Touch the World’ to ‘I Can’t Breathe’ 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Likewise, professional basketball referees are more likely to call personal fouls against a player of a different race. Opinion | What if There Were No George Floyd Video? 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z They were joined at a downtown rally by managers and former players of professional basketball’s Sacramento Kings. Large crowds march across California for George Floyd 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Cooper told reporters that it's unlikely that virus trends would allow a full-capacity nominating convention for Trump to proceed at Charlotte's professional basketball arena. RNC says convention ‘will be held in another city’ after Trump abandons Charlotte, search underway 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Even with their leagues suspended, voices from all over professional basketball still are pleading, loud as ever. LeBron James and even Michael Jordan join NBA stars speaking out on racial injustice 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z More than 15 years after Jordan retired from professional basketball — for the third time — the mix of power and grace he displayed on the court remains a breathless thrill. Michael Jordan: N.B.A. Champ, Marketing Legend and … Toxic Worker? 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z “What that Knicks team did create was a personality on and off the court and connected with a city in a way that professional basketball really hadn’t seen before.” The Old Knicks Made Basketball Games the ‘Hippest Place’ in New York 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The Pipers, Pittsburgh’s only professional basketball team, are led by Charlie Williams with 35 points and Connie Hawkins with 20 points and 13 rebounds. This day in sports: Floyd Mayweather Jr. victorious in his return to the ring 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z If this child is male and well-fed, he may grow to seven and a half feet and play professional basketball. COVID-19 and the Harsh Reality of Empathy Distribution 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z After 15 years in professional basketball, Andrew Bogut is close to making a decision on when to end his career. Weekend Sports in Brief 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z He’s taking in even more lately, mainly because he normally also watches a lot of professional basketball, which is on hold because of the pandemic. Amid COVID-19 isolation, Wyoming residents turn to the arts 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z The Liberty were tied with the Los Angeles Sparks and the Boston Celtics for the second longest-running active logo in professional basketball, according to the team. New York Liberty get new logo along with move to Brooklyn 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z “There are so many possibilities. I hope to play professional basketball. Being a coach is something I’m interested in.” Season Interrupted: Sierra Canyon's Ashley Chevalier has pro plans after Texas 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Who on earth is advising these delusional kids into thinking that they are ready for professional basketball? Letters: This looks like a long timeout for the sports world 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s not quite basketball, but there will be professional basketball players. NBA and WNBA stars to compete in televised H-O-R-S-E games on home courts 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The N.B.A.’s shutdown in response to the global coronavirus outbreak has abruptly foisted chaos and uncertainty upon everyone associated with professional basketball. N.B.A. Players Miss Other Sports Too 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z We can make it through this crisis just fine without the help of wealthy professional basketball players or movie stars or yacht brokers or social media influencers. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Her mother, Quanli Li, was a former professional basketball player in China. UCLA's Natalie Chou talks about racism and being associated with 'the Chinese virus' 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z “All my life as a kid I dreamed of going to college and playing basketball, playing professional basketball and becoming a coach after that,” Williams said. Final Four stardom not always followed by long NBA career 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the Brooklyn Nets professional basketball team announced the entire team was tested last week upon returning from San Francisco after a game against the Golden State Warriors. Celebrities get virus tests, raising concerns of inequality 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Shuttered as well are research universities and day care centers, Broadway theaters, Apple stores, local libraries, ski resorts, March Madness and professional basketball, hockey and baseball. Some Ask a Taboo Question: Is America Overreacting to Coronavirus? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z On the other side, the virus is causing the cancellation of events from professional basketball games to concerts. The mighty bull market falls victim to a tiny virus 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z A rite of spring, college basketball’s March Madness, was set to proceed in empty arenas, while professional basketball won’t play at all. World walls off as leaders warn viral pandemic will worsen 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z He first began the business with Portland Trail Blazers shirts, a professional basketball team in the US. Upcycling sports shirts and aeroplane seats 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z How do you find that balance, then, between being a professional basketball player and producer of Bieber bops? Justin Bieber Got an Unlikely Assist From a Los Angeles Laker 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The Brooklyn Visitations beat the Fort Wayne Hoosiers 14-10 in the first professional basketball game to be broadcast live on radio. AP Sportlight 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Bryant, Collins said, was one of his favorite professional basketball players. N Carolina casket maker creates artwork honoring Kobe Bryant 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z This is professional basketball, not pickup at the playground. Creative Scoring, High Drama and Zion Williamson: All-Star Takeaways 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Staples Center is where Bryant created one of the greatest careers in professional basketball history and where, after his death, thousands of fans grieved for days and built a makeshift memorial. The powerful symbolism of memorializing Kobe and Gigi Bryant on 2/24 at Staples Center 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z One day after a helicopter crash killed professional basketball star Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others, Black’s opening prayer observed that the tragedy recalled “life’s brevity, uncertainty and legacy.” Senate chaplain’s velvet voice cuts through impeachment fray 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z He could mingle comfortably with his fellow celebrities and, as the son of another professional basketball player, had every advantage growing up. LA mourns Kobe Bryant, activist and icon: 'We didn't just lose a basketball player' 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z He was referring to a doctored video in which his head was superimposed on a professional basketball player, leaping up and swatting away from the basket a ball replaced by Joe Biden’s head. Can Trump's social media Rasputin cast his spell over voters again? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z China’s professional basketball league, the C.B.A., announced that it would suspend its season indefinitely. Chinese Officials Race to Contain Anger Over Virus 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z The two often were seen attending professional basketball games together, with Kobe discussing with his daughter different plays and strategies from the sidelines. Kobe Bryant: 5 heartwarming moments of the NBA superstar and his daughter Gianna 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Over the course of Kobe Bryant’s professional basketball career — as well as in the years after it — his considerable ball-handling skills moved a lot of merchandise. Athletes, stars pay wearable tribute to Kobe Bryant 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z He spent part of his childhood growing up in Italy during his father’s professional basketball career and went to high school at Lower Merion in suburban Philadelphia. Kobe Bryant remembered for life on the court and off 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z His attempts at a comeback never advanced past short stints in what was then known as the NBA Development League, along with brief forays into professional basketball in China and Venezuela. After ex-NBA player videoed shirtless and in handcuffs, former teammates offer their help 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Former NBA guard Delonte West seemed to appear in two distressing videos circulated on social media Monday as fans called on the league and other professional basketball players to get him some help. Ex-NBA guard Delonte West allegedly appears in two distressing videos as fans seek help for former player 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z She’d dreamed of one day playing professional basketball but when that didn’t happen landed the job at Temple. I first covered Cosby's accusers in 2005. Why'd it take so long for America to believe them? 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z He didn’t sound like someone close to returning to anything resembling professional basketball, raising fears that his injury was worse than previously believed. Kyrie Irving Is Back, as if He Never Left 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Stern’s management of the NBA yielded immediate dividends, with soaring revenue, record attendance, lucrative TV contracts and renewed interest in professional basketball. David Stern, commissioner who built NBA into global sports phenomenon, dies at 77 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Others stuck around and had sustained success before graduating to professional basketball. Walker, Davis headline AP All-Decade college hoops team 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z He spent most of his young life in Italy after his NBA-playing father moved his family to the country to continue his professional basketball career. Fan heckling Mavericks' Luka Doncic in Slovenian turned out to be this NBA great: 'I was truly surprised' 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Leonard became the fifth professional basketball player to be voted the Associated Press male athlete of the year, joining Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Stephen Curry and LeBron James. NBA Fastbreak: Utah Jazz first contender to make a big trade and shake up the roster 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z She didn’t hold a childhood dream of becoming a professional basketball player. UCLA basketball star Michaela Onyenwere has an Olympic aspiration 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z For the first time as a professional basketball player, Paul is living without family close by. Column: Chris Paul is all in with the Thunder, but for how long? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z “The case is dismissed and Mr. Cousins is looking forward to moving onward with his life and career as a professional basketball player.” Lakers center DeMarcus Cousins will not face harassment charges 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Initially, a music career wasn’t even a thought, as he set his sights on professional basketball. Dave East is in ‘Survival’ mode for debut album 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z This was my first professional basketball game and everything was larger than life. Carli Lloyd still has the NFL in the back of her mind 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z I’m just 21 years old and they dangled the dream of playing professional basketball in front of me. The end of generations of exploitation by the NCAA is finally in sight | Etan Thomas 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Increasingly, the most gratifying and coherent way to follow professional basketball is to pay closer attention to individual players than to the fortunes of their teams. The Return, and Potential Returns, of the N.B.A. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The last item is a nod to Taylor’s professional basketball career, where his filmmaking ambition really started to develop. Hollywood said ‘no’ to Deon Taylor, so he made his own path 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z So much of modern professional basketball boils down to recruiting, catering to and appeasing star players. Analysis | Bradley Beal extension is a big win for Wizards GM Tommy Sheppard and his vision for future 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Draymond Green is a professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. Opinion | Draymond Green: The NCAA is a dictatorship. Its rules on compensating athletes are unfair. 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z At stake wasn’t principle, but access to a massive market increasingly interested in professional basketball. The 'woke' NBA is a reminder: corporations put profits before free speech | Bhaskar Sunkara 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s not just professional basketball drawing China’s wrath. China lashes out at Western businesses as it tries to cut support for Hong Kong protests 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z His first foray into professional basketball was acquiring a minority stake in the Golden State Warriors in 2010. Vivek Ranadive Hopes for Kings 3.0 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The experience motivated him to return to professional basketball in Poland in 2016. Kareem Maddox can't pass up an Olympic shot at three-on-three basketball 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Joe McLean, who played professional basketball in Europe and is the managing partner of the wealth advisory firm Intersect Capital, said he counseled his clients to think in terms of milestones. Andrew Luck Walked Away From $58 Million, but That’s Not Necessarily Bad 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z It was textbook Singer: He urged Haden to make time for the family, telling him that they were well connected with other influential people at USC and a “strong investor” in a professional basketball team. How Rick Singer tried to rope in USC legend Pat Haden amid admissions scandal 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z In contrast, by the time most former professional basketball players hit age 60, your reasonably skilled high school player could beat them in a game of one-on-one. The beautiful weirdness of golf's senior tours - Golf Digest 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z She found two early mentors through a nonprofit, the latter of whom was Oliver, then a professional basketball player who was with Seattle’s American Basketball Assn. team. USC’s Kevin Porter Jr. chases NBA dream to honor a father he barely knew 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z I talked about this experience more in my draft diaries, but I can honestly say that this small town girl was finally living out her dreams of becoming a professional basketball player. Gustafson chronicles her pro basketball journey for the AP 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z A professional basketball or baseball player might be able to extend their career into the mid to late 30′s, but esport athletes hit retirement age a full decade earlier. Carpal tunnel, back pain and social anxiety: Inside the injury-plagued world of professional gaming. 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z But the rumor’s very existence felt like confirmation of the Pelicans’ reputation — a professional basketball franchise receiving minor league treatment in a city preoccupied with its NFL team, the Saints. Can Zion Williamson turn NFL-loving New Orleans into a basketball town? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z When your NBA franchise moves to Salt Lake City in the 1970s after just six seasons in town, it would appear that professional basketball in New Orleans was a monumental failure. Maravich era was last time N.O. basketball mattered 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Wednesday against the Phoenix Mercury will be the first professional basketball game at the Angel of the Winds Arena since it opened in 2003. The Storm is coming to Everett. Here’s what it means for the defending champs 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Today, it ranks among sports such as men’s tennis and women’s professional basketball. Horse racing’s uncomfortable truth: Horses die 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The only reason people talk about my experience during Ramadan is that I am a professional basketball player with a prominent platform. Opinion | Enes Kanter: What it’s like to fast for Ramadan while competing in the NBA Playoffs 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Franks and Perkins, both seniors last season, haven’t appeared on many mock draft boards in recent months, but will likely pursue professional basketball regardless of whether their names are called in the draft. Washington State’s Robert Franks, CJ Elleby and Gonzaga’s Josh Perkins to participate in G League Camp 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z “Aided by their fame, money and power, and motivated by a culture that tolerates misogynistic gender-bias, too many men in professional basketball inappropriately abuse women.” Violence against women isn’t a sports issue, but a societal one | Kavitha A Davidson 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Both his parents were professional basketball players in Europe. Eagles get Miles Sanders and JJ Arcega-Whiteside 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z In the scheme, Foster and Woods promised returns up to 25% every 90 days and bragged to potential clients that professional basketball players such as as Robert Horry, David Robinson and Avery Johnson were investors. Lonzo Ball's former Big Baller Brand associate is the subject of an FBI fraud investigation 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “We think that Los Angeles has a population that is more than sufficient to sustain an interest in two professional basketball teams,” said Alan I. Rothenberg, the president of the Clippers at the time. Clippers' upcoming anniversary a time for fans to embrace the franchise 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z He added: “My experience in professional basketball, the rosters always change — guys come in on contract and just leave. I think there’s an art to it.” Texas Tech’s Perfect Storm Started on a West Texas Ranch 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Gaines is the founder and CEO of Slash Sports and Entertainment, which represents several professional basketball players. Lakers' Lonzo Ball to make own business decisions, starting with new agent 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z What will make the system more fair is if young phenoms are encouraged to enter professional basketball directly. Recent Kansas Editorials 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z He was taken with the third overall pick by the NBA’s Fort Wayne Pistons in 1952 and spent a year in professional basketball before moving to baseball. Longtime Pitt analyst Dick Groat won’t return in 2019-20 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Protests after the shooting were largely peaceful but disrupted downtown professional basketball games and freeway traffic. Decision expected about cops who fatally shot Stephon Clark 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Moreover, all of these players, too, are risking futures in professional basketball — more of them than you might think. Zion Williamson Will Be Fine, but His Teammates Might Not Be 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The NBA on Saturday announced plans to bring a professional basketball league to Africa -- and it's gotten a presidential push. NBA bringing professional basketball league to Africa with help from Obama 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Even if the NBA doesn’t lift those restrictions, there is still the minor league basketball system and overseas leagues that are options as starting spots for a professional basketball career. Recent Kansas Editorials 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z For the century since, professional basketball players have been an integral part of the stylish sneaker game. From Nike to Gucci, a brief history of basketball-inspired sneakers 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “There’s a 100 percent correlation in quality of sleep to performance on the field,” says Steve Smith, senior director of health, wellness and performance for Washington’s professional basketball team, the Wizards. Why a good night’s sleep is ‘the magic pill’ for athletic performance 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Spike Lee has long been known as a presence courtside at professional basketball games. For Spike Lee and his two longtime collaborators, ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Oscar nods hold extra meaning 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Fair enough, as far as professional basketball goes—and much more than enough to set us Knicks fans spinning off, once again, into the throes of a possibly doomed hope. The Trade of Kristaps Porzingis and the Virtues of Being a Fan 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Playing professional basketball is a young person’s game. Recent Kansas Editorials 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z A former athlete who played professional basketball overseas, Terrell said he had come to think of policing as a kind of sport. A Private Investigator Wanted to Prove His Clients Innocent. Will His Methods Be His Own Undoing? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z However, the Nike Adapt BB is the first designed specifically for the performance needs of the professional basketball player. Nike's new power-lacing basketball sneaker set to hit retail February 17 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Cube and Kwatinetz are partners in the Big3 professional basketball league, which ran on Fox Sports for its first two seasons. Fox won't try to buy back its regional sports networks after Disney deal 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z His face lit up at Kris’ stories of collegiate and professional basketball. Will Johnson, grandson of UCLA great Marques Johnson, carries on legacy — at Oregon 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z He is a young, talented college player who, like so many others who come from very difficult beginnings, believes he will make it in professional basketball and that college is a steppingstone. Opinion | A college degree is a better bet than the NBA 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z When the Lakers and Clippers meet for the first time this season on Friday, it’s a culmination of a kind of “best-case scenario” for professional basketball in the city. Lakers vs. Clippers: Could their first meeting this season be a playoff preview? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Kassissieh, an Arab Christian and former professional basketball player, is a well-known figure in Jerusalem. He went to Santa school and rides a camel. Meet Jerusalem’s St. Nick. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z In March, Yi and his friends set up Ruijin Technology, which rents offices the size of two professional basketball courts in an industrial park for $21,000 a year. How cheap labor drives China’s AI ambitions 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z In March, Mr. Yi and his friends set up Ruijin Technology, which rents offices the size of two professional basketball courts in an industrial park for $21,000 a year. How Cheap Labor Drives China’s A.I. Ambitions 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z He hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father and play professional basketball. George Mason senior Jaire Grayer gives back to his hometown 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Decided to play professional basketball at home instead of going to a U.S. college. WNBA coaches, GMs tab McCowan for top pick in mock draft 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Romeo loves playing football and dreams of being a professional basketball player. Mum 'blown away' as son, 7, walks again 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The three-point shot is all the rage in both college and professional basketball right now. Move over Golden State, this D-III team is the new king of three-point shooting - Golf Digest 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Bamba is riding a wave of rebellion in professional basketball, powered by talented young athletes who are determined not to let others’ expectations constrain their ambitions. Harlem Made Mo Bamba, but He Will Take It From Here 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Rather than leaving school to pursue professional basketball, Fernando returned for his sophomore season in College Park, where he’s an emotional leader for the Terrapins. Bruno Fernando was expected to leave Maryland basketball. He’ll start this season as its ‘fuel’ instead. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z At the time, Schwikert says she was studying for the bar exam and caring for a young child while her husband was playing professional basketball overseas. Olympian Tasha Schwikert and sister sue USA Gymnastics, alleging racketeering that included sex abuse - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z When Milwaukee police arrested and zapped professional basketball player Sterling Brown with a Taser for a parking violation earlier this year, a body-worn camera on a Milwaukee police officer captured video showing Brown was mistreated. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z In 1988 at 35, he bought the Portland Trail Blazers professional basketball team. Paul Allen’s passions: Rock n’ roll, sports and philanthropy 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z He was 10,000 miles away, in Australia, where his professional basketball team, the Sydney Kings, was preparing for its season. Brian Bowen II and the Real Victims of N.C.A.A. Scandals 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z At 15, Fernando headed to America to pursue college and professional basketball. Bruno Fernando was expected to leave Maryland basketball. He’ll start this season as its ‘fuel’ instead. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Part of the work involved an effort by Sands to acquire a professional basketball team in the country to promote its casinos. How casino magnate Sheldon Adelson became the only American Donald Trump answers to 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The former players claim their injuries cost them the chance to play professional basketball either in the NBA or overseas. Ex-Howard University basketball players file lawsuit alleging 'gross negligence’ by coach 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z He told of first visiting the south of France when his wife played professional basketball there. Column: Booba’s in France, a place he really, really loves! 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z After I graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in communications, I signed a two-year contract to play professional basketball for Italy. 'Bill Cosby took my spirit and crushed it': Andrea Constand speaks out on sexual assault 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z In a lengthy statement Tuesday telling her story, Constand described the 2004 drugging and assault and how all the strength and agility she possessed as a 30-year-old former professional basketball player melted away. It took 13 years, two trials and an army of accusers to convict Bill Cosby of one sexual assault - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z After I graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Communications, I signed a two-year contract to play professional basketball for Italy. Andrea Constand’s impact statement: Bill Cosby ‘robbed me’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Now, not yet 18, Christ Wamba is training with a professional basketball club in Europe. From Congo to Greece's basketball league: a migrant boy's journey 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Much to his mother’s delight, he chose basketball over football after that, eventually leading him to Le Moyne College, which now leads him to a professional basketball contract with Hapoel Haifa in Israel’s second-tier league. Perspective | High school football’s existential crisis 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z The night was pierced with hundreds of candle flames marshaled on the football field, though the two friends dreamed of playing professional basketball. MS-13 is suspected of killing her daughter. Now she is dead in a dispute over the memorial. 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Yahoo Sports recently dubbed her the best free-throw shooter in professional basketball. 4 keys to extend Mystics’ WNBA Finals run 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Also inducted were New York Liberty coach Katie Smith, the leading scorer in women’s professional basketball history; longtime NBA executive Rod Thorn; and Grant Hill, the first Duke player in the Hall. Friday’s Sports in Brief 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Also inducted were New York Liberty coach Katie Smith, the leading scorer in women's professional basketball history; longtime NBA executive Rod Thorn; and Grant Hill, the first Duke player in the Hall. Basketball Hall of Fame inducts 2018 class loaded with floor leaders 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Smith, the New York Liberty coach, is the all-time leading scorer in women’s professional basketball history, scoring more than 7,000 points and winning four championships in the ABL and WNBA. Allen, Nash, Kidd, Hill in lineup for basketball hall 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Converse’s original Chuck Taylors, emblematic of the mill-town teams that would spawn professional basketball. Perspective | Nike knows the future looks something like Colin Kaepernick 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z “She is the best driver in the league. I think she is the best driver in professional basketball for someone her size, relatively speaking, for a big player.” A’ja Wilson, W.N.B.A.’s Top Rookie, Finds Her Voice and Her Way 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z But that’s how women’s professional basketball players in the U.S. are treated, which is why a few days ago one collection decided enough was enough. Perspective | WNBA players are still treated like second-class citizens. It’s on the NBA to fix that. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The retired professional basketball star was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2002. NBA All-Star returns to Juneau to host youth basketball camp 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Ready, who became the first female coach of a male professional basketball team when she served as an assistant for the NBDL’s Greenville Groove starting in 2001, knows that well. Kristi Toliver wants to be an NBA coach. Here some advice from the women who blazed the trail. 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z With Russell on board, Boston went on a run unequaled in professional basketball: 11 titles in 13 seasons, including a stretch of eight in a row. 1968: Lakers' first 'Big 3' didn't deliver immediate banner 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Tortice’s family said she aspired to be a professional basketball player or work in law enforcement like her father but was robbed of those opportunities. Arizona man sentenced to 8 years in death of teen girlfriend 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Video review is used in professional basketball, baseball and other sports, but it’s an awkward fit for soccer, a flowing game with a clock that doesn’t stop. Opinion | VAR is wrecking the World Cup 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z He knew, moments before virtually anyone else did, that he was about to become a professional basketball player. Behind the scenes of Kevin Huerter’s draft moment 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The announcement came a day after the release of a shocking video showing Milwaukee police attacking, tasing and arresting Sterling Brown — a young, unarmed, black, professional basketball player — over a parking violation. How the NFL players’ union can block the league’s new ban on protests 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z During his tenure, his decision to allow professional basketball players to represent the United States in the Olympics set the stage for the iconic “Dream Team” in 1992. Hall of Fame coach, administrator Newton dies at 88 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Have you bought tickets to a professional basketball game lately? The Canard About Falling Incomes 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z They were the dominant figures of professional basketball, intimidating centers with dissimilar styles. In a time of chaos, a breakout year for black athletes 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we’re happy professional golf isn’t as predictable as professional basketball. Thomas Pieters' crazy club snap, a tour pro's savvy tweet at Tiger Woods, and Sergio Garcia chooses soccer over golf - Golf Digest 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Mardigan allegedly took bets on sports including college and professional basketball, football and stock car racing. Man pleads guilty to long-running sports betting operation 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Mardigan allegedly took bets on several sports, such as college and professional basketball, football and stock car racing. Man pleads guilty to 14-year sports betting operation 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Ms Hammon, who is 41 and a former professional basketball player, is already the NBA's first female assistant coach - and the first woman to interview for a head coaching job in the league. The women making US history this week 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z When Elizabeth Williams arrived in Istanbul for her first season playing professional basketball overseas in fall 2015, she was thrown into a proverbial fire. 'There's no break': Overseas double duty is an offer many WNBA stars can't refuse 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Among its sponsors was Senator Bill Bradley, Democrat of New Jersey and a former college and professional basketball star. Supreme Court Ruling Favors Sports Betting 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Protesters at times blocked fans from attending professional basketball games and disrupted rush-hour traffic downtown in the state capital and on a nearby interstate. Stephon Clark: official autopsy of man shot by police differs from private one 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z According to the website of an international trading company Ms. Hobbs founded, she is “a former Chinese professional basketball player and part-time model” who moved to the United States in 1996. Don Blankenship, West Virginia Candidate, Lives Near Las Vegas and Mulled Chinese Citizenship 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z “My ultimate goal is to play professional basketball, so going that route, that would be great for me,” he said. Darius Bazley Charts Yet Another Path to the N.B.A.: The Development League 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Constand had been a star player at the University of Arizona and briefly played professional basketball in Europe. ‘She was madly in love with his fame and money’: Bill Cosby’s lawyer paints him as the victim of his sexual assault accuser 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Teams are predominately made up of current professional basketball players, college alumni and former NBA and international players. Spokane Hoopfest will partner with ESPN’s The Basketball Tournament and host opening-round games 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Augustine also agreed to advise Koprivica and his family to hire Dawkins if he became a professional basketball player, prosecutors alleged. Instead of paying players to go to Miami and Louisville, he kept the money. The FBI let him go. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Before her first stint at Maine, Curry coached professional basketball teams in Vietnam and China. New assistant hoops coach believed to be 1st woman in role 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z “If a kid wants to be a professional basketball player and he has the ability, he should be able to do that,” he said. Darius Bazley Charts Yet Another Path to the N.B.A.: The Development League 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Ingraham was previously criticized for telling professional basketball players to “shut up and dribble” after Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James criticized Trump in an interview. Facing boycott, Laura Ingraham apologizes for taunting Parkland teen over college rejections 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “Ultimately, playing professional basketball has always been my dream,” Bazley told Yahoo Sports. Syracuse commit Darius Bazley says he’s going to NBA 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Jackson says, “After talking with my family and weighing my options, it’s my desire to turn my full attention to preparing for a career in professional basketball.” Maryland’s Justin Jackson, Dion Wiley leave program 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Some mourners at Wednesday’s wake for Clark predicted increased unrest beyond the unruly but mostly nonviolent protests that have disrupted traffic and two professional basketball games since the March 18 shooting. City on edge for funeral of man killed by Sacramento police 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z "Zeke was an outstanding young man whose powerful belief in himself and uncommon perseverance led to a successful professional basketball career," G League president Malcolm Turner said in a news release. G League player dies after collapsing on court 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Protesters decrying this week’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black man formed a human chain blocking fans trying to attend a professional basketball game between the Sacramento Kings and Atlanta Hawks. Thursday’s Sports in Brief 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Adams, a renaissance man in professional basketball, plays a subtle role in this activism. The Golden State Warriors’ 70-Year-Old Truth-Teller 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Plus: Meet the 70-year-old Warrior assistant coach who is a renaissance man in professional basketball, and plays a subtle role in the activism of this unusually outspoken and unified team. Essential California: Extreme weather prompts warnings 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Representatives from professional basketball and baseball are scheduled to testify. Connecticut looks to plan for possible legal sports betting 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Zubac, 20, began playing professional basketball at 15, so he has understood the business side of basketball for years. Personnel moves give Ivica Zubac a chance to rejoin Lakers rotation 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z "A lot of these players will not play in the NBA but they will play professional basketball as a career," said Troy Justice, the NBA's senior director of international basketball operations. Young basketball players from around the world enjoyed the experience of a lifetime at their own all-star weekend in El Segundo 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Bob Weiss, an assistant with the Denver Nuggets, is five years older, but Weiss played professional basketball for a dozen years. The Golden State Warriors’ 70-Year-Old Truth-Teller 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The host of “The Ingraham Angle” told her fans on Thursday night that professional basketball players who are outspoken in their criticism of President Trump should “shut up and dribble.” Laura Ingraham zings LeBron James over anti-Trump activism: ‘Shut up and dribble’ 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Some of her coaches were professional basketball players drafted for duty. ‘We are women, but we are Marines for life,’ say veterans now in their 90s 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Satoransky even wore his standard permanent smile when taking questions about his big night against the Bulls — the former European star had never before scored 25 points in any professional basketball game. With guards in increasingly scarce supply, Wizards tap a staffer to run point at practice 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z It was what a good professional basketball team would do against a lesser opponent. What we learned from the Lakers' 112-93 win over Phoenix And though in professional basketball he has never been a head coach, he says, “it probably worked out the way it should.” The Golden State Warriors’ 70-Year-Old Truth-Teller 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z And ideally, the NBA would like a cut of any money wagered on professional basketball games in the United States. If sports gambling is legalized, the NBA wants in on the profits 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z “A lot of people in Indiana want a white face for their professional basketball franchise,” said Lagler, who is white. How Lance Stephenson, a brash Brooklyn streetball legend, found a home in humble Hoosier country 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z It's one of the great stress tests in professional basketball – stop the San Antonio Spurs for 48 minutes. Lakers endure Spurs' stress test in 93-81 win – LA Times 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Has he missed the intellectual stimulus since swapping college for professional basketball? Jaylen Brown: 'Sport is a mechanism of control in America' 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Santiago, whose grandparents are from Puerto Rico, served a mission on the island and played professional basketball there for three years after graduating from BYU. Fathers, sons learn lessons of love, service in Puerto Rico 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z This week a professional basketball coach made a quotable case for why wealthy people should support charitable causes. America’s Gift to the World 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z GG Goloman of the Bruins, who is from Hungary and played on its national team over the summer, knows a thing or two about professional basketball overseas. UCLA basketball moving on past Ball family era 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The club’s sports director Vilius Vaitkevicius says of the Balls: “We are committed to their long-term success and development as professional basketball players.” LiAngelo, LaMelo Ball turn pro with club team in Lithuania 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Based on just those numbers, football is still kicking professional basketball, baseball, and hockey through the goal posts. The NBA has surpassed the NFL as the league of America’s future | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z He chose to do things his own way, utilizing an old path to a high-major scholarship and, he hopes, professional basketball career. This Division I hoops hopeful is taking an increasingly rare path — through public school 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z College basketball could, after nearly a half-century, reintroduce freshman ineligibility in men’s basketball, a move that would effectively dare the most talented players to test themselves with one year of professional basketball overseas. Freshmen Rule College Basketball, Unless the Rules Change 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The New York Liberty, established in 1996, is one of the original eight teams in the women’s professional basketball league. Madison Square Garden Seeks Buyer for WNBA Team New York Liberty 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z He went from an obscure professional basketball player to an overnight sporting sensation in 2012 when he led a winning turnaround for his former New York Knicks team. Lin out for season after knee surgery, Nets confirm 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Minnesota hopes to claim its fourth championship trophy since 2011 for a city that is unrivaled in its embrace of women’s professional basketball. Minnesota Lynx, a Model W.N.B.A. Franchise, Eye Another Title 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z That distinguishes it from professional basketball, which also has mostly black players, but also appears to have a majority-minority fan base. Donald Trump sparks protests on football fields across America 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Fandom for professional football far outpaces professional baseball at 45 percent of Americans and professional basketball at 39 percent. Poll: Nine in 10 sports fans say NFL brain injuries are a problem, but 74 percent are still football fans 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z “Everybody wants to get to the NBA style. I came from the NBA,” he says between bites of a tuna salad sandwich, and indeed there might be no greater creature of professional basketball than Ewing. Patrick Ewing once embodied Georgetown basketball. Can he resurrect it? 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z He went from an obscure professional basketball player to an overnight sporting sensation in 2012 when he led a winning turnaround for his former New York Knicks team. Lin out for season after knee surgery, Nets confirm 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z This weekend, professional basketball finally returns to Staples Center. Staples Center will host Ice Cube's three-on-three basketball league on Sunday 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z After a nondescript professional basketball career, Robinson became a vice president at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and then a partner at a boutique investment bank. Craig Robinson Is Reportedly Joining the Knicks’ Front Office 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z By some estimates, at least half of collegiate and professional basketball players have tattoos that cover much of their chest and arms. How Tattoos Might Affect Your Workout 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Two founding members of websites devoted to bringing professional basketball and hockey to Seattle have been named to a community advisory group on a KeyArena renovation. Sonics Rising, NHL to Seattle websites represented on KeyArena advisory group 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z But Mr. Wolff did enjoy telling how he once broadcast a professional basketball game when he was not at the arena. Bob Wolff, Sports Broadcaster for Nearly 80 Years, Dies at 96 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z One of the most accomplished professional basketball players in this city’s history is doing something completely appropriate for this glorious time in her career. After nearly a decade with the Sparks, Candace Parker is still something to see 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Just three days into the program, he already was able to keep three basketballs going, something the 14-year-old said would definitely help him in his ultimate goal of playing professional basketball. Circus program teaches teens about performing arts 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z “I am a driven guy,” said the 6-foot-9 former professional basketball player, who was on his way to his umpteenth cigar show when we chatted last week. Perspective | This NASA analyst left a $200,000 job to sell cigars 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z If professional basketball players are somewhat leery of the shoe, then the average consumer likely is - for now. Lonzo Ball and his Big Baller Brand shoe to debut in Vegas 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z If professional basketball players are somewhat leery of the shoe, then the average consumer likely is — for now. Lonzo Ball and his Big Baller Brand shoe to debut in Vegas 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “I think that’s the thing is us as athletes, especially playing professional basketball, the competitive nature is always there and I saw that in the promo game, the preseason game,” he said. Ice Cube has big expectations for his Big3 3-on-3 league 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Not until last year was she even sure that he would be a professional basketball player. Markelle Fultz, about to become the NBA's newest star, is really old school, and an old soul 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The other NBA teams with perfectly normal amounts of professional basketball talent spent this year scheming to beat the Warriors. Golden State Warriors Win NBA Championship 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Thank you Golden State Warriors for officially ruining professional basketball. Letters: What will the Lakers do with No. 2? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Now the Wingfoot is back on a professional basketball uniform in a faster, more athletic, richer game transformed by time. An N.B.A. Throwback Returns: Ads on Jerseys 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z A briefing memo says the addition of a professional basketball team at the downtown arena calls for about $34.5 million to help finance the Pistons’ move. Michigan Fund approves $36M in bonds to help Pistons move 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z It was women’s professional basketball at its best. W.N.B.A. Is Helping Officials Up Their Game 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z They told jurors at London’s Central Criminal Court that Harris, 68, wanted to kill Allinson, inherit her fortune and move in with his girlfriend, a former professional basketball player from Lithuania in her 20s. Jury rules UK man was hiring killer, not writing thriller 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z They looked the part in a professional basketball world that thrives in the information age. 79-year-old NBA scout has embraced analytics but never abandoned the good old eye test 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Still, despite the makeshift nature of the league, it was the best professional basketball in the country. An N.B.A. Throwback Returns: Ads on Jerseys 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The former professional basketball player is in Rockford this week to speak at the Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful Earth Day Awards luncheon on April 25. EXCHANGE: Ex-basketball player inspires urban farmers 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “The nature of the NBA game, especially that of the point guard position, is high-speed cutting, jumping and pivoting. So it makes sense that recoveries are longer in professional basketball.” An ACL injury is no longer a career killer, but can athletes ever truly be the same? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z One of the many benefits of being a professional basketball player in Round 2 of the NBA playoffs are the celebrity meetings. Stay Classy, Boston: That time the Wizards met Will Ferrell 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The two begin as childhood rivals, grow into a couple, break up and ultimately find their way back together again as Monica lives out her dream of playing women’s professional basketball. 9 sports movies you can get away with watching on date night - Golf Digest 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Finally, the fun is back in professional basketball. Loving Marshawn Lynch, enjoying the NBA, hoping Dejounte Murray sticks around: Times readers sound off 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z He was drafted by the Knicks but chose not to play at a time when professional basketball players made far less money than they do today. Solly Walker, Trailblazing St. John’s Basketball Player, Dies at 85 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z More than in any other team sport, singular individual talents dominate professional basketball. Opinion | The special challenge Steph Curry presents to LeBron James 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z At the time, Rucker Park was already hallowed ground to fans of street ball, a louder, flashier relative of professional basketball that emphasizes individuality, slick moves and dunks over the fundamentals. Greg Marius, Who Sought Profit in Street Ball in Harlem, Dies at 59 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Some suggested taking a similar lens to professional basketball, while others applauded our examination. Lack of diversity in gifted education: Some readers see segregation 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z These guys are making a mockery of the professional basketball game. Loving Marshawn Lynch, enjoying the NBA, hoping Dejounte Murray sticks around: Times readers sound off 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z “We’re professional basketball players. With or without a whistle we play basketball.” Overzealous refs render Wizards-Hawks near unwatchable 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Chris Paul is a consummate professional basketball player, and the game is as important to his family as it is to him. It's the Clippers' only thought: drawing even with Utah Jazz in Game 2 of playoff series 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z He traces it back to his childhood near Orlando, Fla., where — raised by a partly paralyzed American father and a blind French mother — he dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player. The Thickly Accented American Behind the N.B.A. in France 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z In response to the story, a few readers tartly suggested that The Seattle Times apply a similar lens to professional basketball and said the piece irresponsibly encouraged racial hatred. Lack of diversity in gifted education: Some readers see segregation 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Until this latest group, I was not that enthused about professional basketball. Loving Marshawn Lynch, enjoying the NBA, hoping Dejounte Murray sticks around: Times readers sound off 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z He figured an attempt at professional basketball would send an undersize power forward like him overseas, away from his family. Lane from college basketball to NFL tight end is open, and Mo-Alie Cox is driving it 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He is still mulling his options: using his degree back in Serbia, pursuing a professional basketball career in Europe or sticking around Evansville a while longer. Bosnian UE athlete who lost father gets support from locals 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “We are very excited for Melo as he pursues his dream of playing professional basketball.” Maryland basketball standout Melo Trimble will enter NBA draft and hire agent 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z He still sees himself playing 20 seasons — this is his 18th of professional basketball, and he made the roster after earning a spot during training camp. Metta World Peace has played limited time but remains a leader for Lakers 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The kids that go to Kentucky are signing up because they want careers as professional basketball players. The Kentucky Wildcats are the only honest team in college basketball 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Las Vegas bookies would probably give better odds on the hapless last-place Brooklyn Nets winning the professional basketball championship. Want to Know Where Supreme Court Nominees Stand? Don’t Bother Asking 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The one-time phenom faded to the fringe of professional basketball, appearing briefly for the San Diego Stingrays and St. Louis Swarm in the now-defunct International Basketball League. Rico Harris: A life out of control and a mother who won't give up 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Mr Fingleton was a professional basketball player in the United States before becoming an actor. Game of Thrones giant actor Neil Fingleton's funeral attended by hundreds - BBC News 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Cynthia Valentin, 61, worked variously as an intelligence expert, a military prosecutor and a battalion commander during a 26-year career, having joined up at age 28 as a former professional basketball player. 'We have a long way to go': ex-marines speak out amid sexual harassment row 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z There’s not a recruit who lands with a power conference program that hasn’t at least entertained thoughts of a professional basketball career. The Kentucky Wildcats are the only honest team in college basketball 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The two NBA legends seemed forever connected through college and professional basketball, but their story paused for more than 25 years. An old friend and rival offers a Bird's-eye view of Magic Johnson's new Lakers gig 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z For Brown, passing up the fortune of a professional basketball career would have, almost counterintuitively, been a selfish act. Freddy Adu and the Children of the Beautiful Game 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Fingleton also played basketball at the University of North Carolina and the College of the Holy Cross and went on to a short professional basketball career in the U.S. and Europe before turning to acting. The week’s passages 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z A few days later, a Louisville Metro Councilman named Dan Johnson forwarded a motion in city hall to support bringing professional basketball to that city. Time to sort out what KeyArena news is actually fake 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The subdivision, Falconhurst, is home to doctors, lawyers, business executives and even professional basketball players. The real dictators of Potomac, Maryland 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z It did not look like a normal professional basketball player trying to get his hand on a ball to extend a possession late in the third quarter of the 19th game of the season. The Misunderstood Genius of Russell Westbrook 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s been 28 years since professional basketball in Washington has felt like this. No place like home: Wizards win 15th straight at Verizon Center 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Time magazine recently speculated that the lanky executive, who is considered the best basketball player to serve in the White House, may want to own a professional basketball team some day. How the wealthy Obamas could become wealthier 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z The league will rely entirely on players with professional basketball backgrounds, all over the age of 30. ‘We grew up watching these guys’: Ice Cube, Roger Mason Jr. roll out BIG3 league 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z But attitudes began to change after WildAid enlisted Chinese professional basketball player Yao Ming, who played for the Houston Rockets, to front a public awareness campaign in 2006. Air China bans shark fin cargo, reflecting dramatic shift in attitudes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Theater owners have for several years played alternative programming such as opera, soccer, professional basketball and concerts to fill seats during the middle of the week when auditoriums tend to go empty. With Imax's Marvel experiment, theaters look to TV shows such as 'Inhumans' to fill seats 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z In the late 1970s, with New York’s professional basketball teams sagging, students began rooting for two local hockey teams, the Rangers and Islanders, Rabbi Schiller recalled. A ‘World Unto Itself’ in New York Area Yeshivas: Floor Hockey 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z The business of being a professional basketball player goes beyond what you see every night at 7 p.m. Behind the scenes on a Wizards road trip: Drug tests, movie nights and rookie hazing 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Franchot urged the state to consider building an arena that would house professional basketball and hockey teams, neither of which Baltimore has. Md. cancels agreements for Baltimore project, weighs sports arena instead 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Jaylen, who dreams of becoming a professional basketball player, declared he wanted to play for the Golden State Warriors. A Role Model and Mentor While Dad Serves Time 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z There was a professional basketball game in the Brooklyn Nets’ arena last week and nobody showed up. The Golden State Almost-Warriors 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Though, they don’t frown that much, since they fined Beal a mere $15,000, which for a professional basketball player is the equivalent of paying for one team meal, minus gratuity. NBA tanking may be traumatic but it works 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z He noted that both Abdul-Jabbar and Jordan had dominated professional basketball. Obama awards Medal of Freedom to a star-studded list of 21 recipients 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z But after the 2014-15 season, he said he realized his professional basketball options might be limited to playing overseas. George Fant to remain at left tackle for Seahawks, Bradley Sowell and Garry Gilliam competing at right tackle 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z I went to the home opener of the local professional basketball team last week, and it was great. Rocking the gym with new minor-league team in Prince George’s County 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In addition to its losses to professional basketball, USC also lost four players who transferred. Louisville transfer Shaqquan Aaron is thrust into a critical role for the Trojans 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Seattle is a basketball crazy city without a professional basketball team. Chris Hansen's pledge to fund Sodo arena rekindles Sonic memories 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Bradley is a former professional basketball player who served three terms in the U.S. Anti-Trump Ad Warns Ohio Voters With Mushroom Cloud 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Chicago calls as its son Michael Jordan, who reshaped professional basketball. Cubs win the pennant, advance to first World Series in 71 years 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z “It was surreal,” Mr. Sherman said, recalling being protected by a former professional basketball player wearing a dark suit. Grit vs. Goliath: A Reporter’s Dogged Pursuit of Roger Ailes 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z She also had an offer to play professional basketball but turned it down. Rose Mofford, First Woman to Serve as Arizona’s Governor, Dies at 94 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z I went on to do college radio, voice overs, freelance reporting, earn a communications degree and now — announce professional basketball. Love letters to Vin Scully: 'You have no idea, Mr. Scully, what you mean to our family’ 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z He towers over many of his team-mates, and he has a build that would look at home on a professional basketball court. Unpredictable and unmanly: baseball's fear of the knuckleball 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z As a kid, I aspired to be a farmer, a priest, a writer, a professional basketball player, a trial attorney and rich — in no particular order. This doctor’s tool kit includes a remedy from the past: House calls 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z That generosity was indicative of how he shared the riches he extracted from the oil patch with his hometown, to which he helped bring a professional basketball team, lured upscale shops and bankrolled fancy restaurants. Oklahomans Turn Out for Auction of Aubrey McClendon’s Wines 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Most professional basketball teams employ data geeks, who run models that analyse players by a series of metrics, including foot speed, vertical leap, free-throw percentage, and a host of other variables. How algorithms rule our working lives | Cathy O’Neil 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The professional basketball star's cousin, Nykea Aldridge, was fatally shot while pushing her baby in a pram on the South Side. US rapper Rhymefest invites Donald Trump to Chicago - BBC News 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The most important part of their plan was giving the U.S.’s highest-paid professional basketball players a reason to play for free in the summer: a culture built around representing their country. Team USA Basketball to World: Dream On 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z He is staying with the small-market team with which he began his career, single-handedly saving the relevance of professional basketball in Oklahoma. How Do You Tell a Better Story in Sports? 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z In May, the Seattle City Council rejected a proposal to give up part of Occidental Avenue for a new arena and bring professional basketball back to Seattle. #EnoughSeattle takes off after Capitol Hill panel on sexism and online harassment 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Upon leaving Seattle U, he pursued playing professional basketball overseas before deciding to play Australian Rules Football, which led to him the Panthers. UW’s Matt Thurmond becomes men’s golf coach at Arizona State 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Voigt’s surprising career in professional basketball began with an internship with the Los Angeles Clippers. The Coach of Nigeria’s Basketball Team Is From...Vermont 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z That team disappointed, losing three games en route to winning a bronze medal – the first time since professional basketball players began participating in the Olympics in 1992 that the United States failed to win gold. Born from the fires of 2004 failures, Team USA Basketball now built to last 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z They hoped to build on the professional basketball championship won by Cleveland's Cavaliers. Forecasts of convention bonanza fall short for Cleveland businesses 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Now Chriss is on the brink of nabbing a starting role on a professional basketball team. Former Husky Marquese Chriss has a shot at earning starting role with Phoenix Suns 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Duncan, whose retirement became official with a short press release from the only team he ever played for, was as ego-less as any player in the history of professional basketball. Tim Duncan’s Other Career as an Academic Psychologist 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z There is, though, one business in which workers in the middle are positively thriving: professional basketball. How the N.B.A.’s Salary Cap Favors Talent-Rich Teams 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z |
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