Basketball

A 50-year championship wait is befitting of at least 50 diamonds. And a lot more, apparently. The Bucks were given their championship rings on Tuesday night in their season opener vs.

The COVID-19 pandemic derailed the 2019-20 NBA season, and the impact of the coronavirus was felt once again during the 2020-21 campaign. While the league has gotten closer to a sense of normalcy — teams will play their typical 82-game slates, and fans will be back in arenas — it’s clear that the NBA is not out of the woods just yet.

It didn’t take long for Joel Embiid to share his true feelings about Ben Simmons' holdout and trade request. During his Thursday media availability, Embiid responded to a report from The Athletic’s Sam Amick indicating that Simmons believed the pairing of the 76ers stars had “run its course.

Thirteen years after Stephen Curry helped put both Davidson, N.C, and Davidson College on the map, he, along with his wife, Ayesha, is doing it once again. The couple are making themselves principally involved in the athletic department’s future success thanks to an undisclosed donation that will help further fully endow women’s sports at the small North Carolina college where Curry took the program to the Elite Eight in 2008.

When Lionel Messi departed Barcelona and joined Paris Saint-Germain, the signing shook up the sports world. It also fattened Michael Jordan’s wallet. The NBA legend has already made $7 million off Messi’s transfer, according to Argentinian outlet TyC Sports, which reports that PSG has totaled $140 million in sales of Messi’s No.