Irving, Kyrie
The Brooklyn Nets Have So Much Talent but So Little Charm
I watched the Nets play in Brooklyn last week, and a Boston Celtics home game broke out. “M-V-P, M-V-P, M-V-P!” rang the chants, aimed not at one of the Nets but at Jayson Tatum, Boston’s feather-touch, do-it-all forward, as he toed the free-throw line in the fourth quarter of what became a runaway victory for […]
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Nets Suspend Kyrie Irving Indefinitely After Antisemitic Movie Post
The Nets suspended guard Kyrie Irving indefinitely Thursday, calling him “unfit to be associated” with the team because he had declined to say he has no antisemitic views in the week since he posted a link on Twitter to a film with hateful claims about Jewish people. “Such failure to disavow antisemitism when given a […]
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Kevin Durant Asks to Be Traded From the Nets
The Nets’ latest foray into the world of superteams might be over. Kevin Durant, a 12-time N.B.A. All-Star, has requested a trade, and the Nets have given him permission to find a trade partner, Rich Kleiman, Durant’s business manager, told ESPN. Durant’s request came three days after Kyrie Irving decided to opt into the final […]
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Anybody Can Dribble a Basketball. But Few Can Do It Like This.
There’s hardly a more exciting play in basketball. A player is pounding the ball up and down with eyes darting left and right, deciding a point of attack. The player feints with one hand, and leans that way, so the defender follows. The ball flicks the other way, and the hapless defender slips, or in […]
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The Nets and the Lakers Did Not Win. But Superteams Never Die.
The game was over, and the crowd at Barclays Center was chanting “M-V-P.” The fans wore N.B.A. jerseys in all of the team’s colors, and their star raised his arms to acknowledge their praise. But Kyrie Irving was already headed to the locker room. So, too, was Kevin Durant. Ben Simmons wasn’t even in the […]
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The Nets Need a Miracle. Or Two. Or Three. Or Four.
As an unmistakable feeling of desperation closed in on the Nets, Coach Steve Nash reached toward the deepest recesses of his bench on Saturday and summoned a former star in twilight. Blake Griffin shed his warm-ups, along with some cobwebs, and reported to the scorer’s table. Griffin, 33, has a bum ankle and a surgically […]
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The Nets May Be in Trouble. But They Still Have Kevin Durant.
BOSTON — Kevin Durant had no room. He admitted as much. Whenever he had the ball against the Celtics on Wednesday night, and even when he did not, defenders were crowding his space, shadowing him, draping themselves all over him like Saran wrap. They were on the perimeter, and in the paint, and at the […]
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Boston Celtics Buzzer-Beater Takes Down Kyrie Irving and the Nets
BOSTON — There was a time when Celtics fans were excited about Kyrie Irving. They can recall the summer of 2017, when Irving forced his way out of Cleveland and landed in Boston, where he delighted in the Celtics’ illustrious past and pledged to do what he could to help the team win. But over […]
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Novak Djokovic and Fellow Star Vaccine Skeptics Are Increasingly Scorned
In a less dangerous time, a more forgiving public viewed Novak Djokovic’s nontraditional views of science and health as the quirky characteristics of a hyperactive seeker with strongly held beliefs about everything from sports to spirituality. He has sat inside a pressurized, egg-shaped pod during major tournaments, believing it would improve circulation, boost his red-blood […]
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