Basketball

Wednesday night’s action around the NBA featured 26 teams and 13 games, meaning there was no shortage of highlights. With no NBA games played on Tuesday due to Election Day, players had the day off and seemingly used that time to hit some plyometric training, with multiple highlight-reel plays blowing up the Twitter timeline.

Stephen Curry changed the game of basketball with his long-distance shooting. Now, he may be changing the game of sports celebrations, too. Curry famously pulled off his latest celebrating stunt in the NBA Finals, putting the kids to sleep with a dagger three-pointer late in the fourth quarter of Game 6.

Stephen Curry isn’t just known for cashing out from well beyond the 3-point line. The Warriors star once again finds himself on top of the list of the NBA’s highest-paid players.

At halftime of the 2022 All-Star Game, the NBA honored the members of its 75th Anniversary team in a special presentation. Just like it went down 25 years ago in 1997, the league amassed all members of NBA 75 at center court of the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse for the ceremony.

Joe B. Hall, a college basketball coach of 19 years who led Kentucky to a national championship season in 1977-78, died on Saturday in Lexington, Ky. He was 93 years old.