James Harden spoke his mind, and now he’s paying the price. The NBA fined the Philadelphia 76ers star $100,000 for “indicating that he would not perform the services called for under his player contract unless traded to another team,” the league announced Tuesday. Those comments came as Harden publicly called Sixers president of basketball operations
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HONG KONG — Former NBA star Dwight Howard faced a wave of fury in China on Friday after referring to Taiwan as a “country” in a promotional video. Howard, 37, made the comment as he appeared alongside the island’s vice president, William Lai-Chingte, to promote a contest that will allow the winners to spend a
Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday in support of his resolution demanding Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner’s release from her wrongful detainment in Russia. The House passed the resolution yesterday. “Not a day goes by that we aren’t thinking of Brittney and working to get
The O2, London, hosted an epic conclusion to another incredible season of British Basketball with the 2022 Play-off Finals, and the British Basketball League (BBL) are delighted to confirm that the Finals are returning to London in 2023, with tickets available via pre-sale from 29 June. A record-breaking crowd of close to 16,000 basketball fanatics attended
MIAMI — The Boston Celtics are a team of long-distance runners. For years, former Celtics president Danny Ainge employed a consultant that would identify draft picks and free agents’ “brain types” under the belief that certain personality traits made for better players. Ainge and that system are gone, but the Celtics — be it by