Sports


How Calvin Booth helped the Denver Nuggets reach their first NBA Finals
The journeyman NBA center turned GM understood the team’s need to add veterans after being a vocal one during his career

For Denver Nuggets’ Sparky Gonzales, the NBA Finals have been a long time coming
The equipment manager since 1987, Gonzales is an important part of the organization: ‘He’s just the ‘OG’ around here’

Jim Brown showed boys like me there was a better place to run toward
In my tough Cleveland neighborhood, we appreciated how Cleveland Browns great stood up for himself and other Black people

How LIV Golf is providing Harold Varner III with ‘green power’
Like Jim Brown before him, Varner’s earnings aren’t just for economic self-sufficiency but empowering Black people in sports

Carmelo Anthony and the Denver Nuggets need to reconcile
It’s time to forget his bitter departure and remember what he did for the franchise and city

Jim Brown has no time for games
Fifty years after standing with Muhammad Ali, the aging warrior is still working on his legacy of responsibility and economic empowerment

Black baseball getting an upgrade at the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Committee targeting 2024 to open expansion of ‘Pride and Passion’ exhibit

The next chapter begins at graduation
From grad school to the WNBA, four women’s basketball players give an inside look into their postgraduate paths

G League Ignite newcomer Thierry Darlan aims to be NBA’s first born-and-bred African point guard
NBA Academy Africa alum wants to change image of African players: ‘We’re not just known to run the floor and get rebounds’

Making the case for Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla
In 1972, Ray Scott — the NBA’s first Black Coach of the Year — was a young assistant thrust into the head job. He thinks Boston’s coach is heading in the right direction.

Twenty years of Udonis Haslem in the NBA: ‘I would like to say I am Heat culture’
The Miami Heat veteran reflects on his retirement, mentorship, team ownership and more

Jim Brown: The death of a legend and freedom song
For Walter Beach III, having the Hall of Fame running back as a friend was liberating

The disrespect of former South Carolina guard Brea Beal and women’s basketball players has to stop
Response to criticism of Beal again shows that women’s basketball is tight-knit in the name of sisterhood and survival

The season of Angel Reese
National champion LSU’s visit to the White House caps an eventful year for the star, who’s riding a wave of popularity