By MARK LORENZANA The relationship between NBA superstar guard Kyrie Irving and sports-equipment giant Nike “is likely over,” according to Nike co-founder Phil Knight in an interview with U.S. cable news channel CNBC on Thursday, Nov. 10. Irving has been under fire recently for tweeting, on Oct. 29, a link to an anti-Semitic film, and refusing to apologize immediately after.
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By MARK LORENZANA The Golden State Warriors tied the National Basketball Association (NBA) finals on the night of Friday, June 10, against the Boston Celtics at two wins apiece — in front of a hostile crowd, on the road, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. It took an otherworldly game from Warriors superstar guard Stephen Curry, who essentially put
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By MARK LORENZANA Brittney Griner, the superstar center who plays for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), has now been in Russian custody for more than 100 days. Griner also plays for Russian basketball team UMMC Ekaterinburg in the WNBA offseason, and in Feb. 22 of this year was arrested upon her arrival in Moscow after
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By MARK LORENZANA I saw a couple of pictures of Golden State Warriors forward Juan Toscano-Anderson the other day while mindlessly scrolling through the Facebook app on my phone, checking updates on the ongoing National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs, as well as updates from my favorite boxing websites. The photos of Toscano-Anderson were actually part of a promotional post from
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By MARK LORENZANA It was a regular season game between the Los Angeles Sparks and the now-defunct Miami Sol of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), specifically the sixth season of the then-fledgling league. The date: July 30, 2002. In that game, the home team was struggling against Miami at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Then, after a missed three-pointer
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By MARK LORENZANA The good news: The Dallas Mavericks have reached the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs after defeating their first-round opponent, the gutsy but outgunned Utah Jazz, in six games. The bad news: As of this writing, they are currently down two games to none against their second-round opponent, the Phoenix Suns, after
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. So who got the National Basketball Association (NBA) to shut up and dribble? Answer: China in its most intimidating ways, as David Whitley wrote in the Orlando Sentinel: “Amid all the preaching, would someone please make a peep about a country that commits more human rights abuses in 10 minutes than the United States does in 10
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