NBA There Are New Tampering Rules in the NBA, but Will Anyone Follow Them?theringer.com - Dan Devine If the opening of the NBA’s 2019 free agency season seemed ridiculous to you, that’s because it was. The number of stars who changed teams was …
Seattle, WA Introducing ‘Sonic Boom’: How Seattle Lost Its Teamtheringer.com - Jordan Ritter Conn ‘Sonic Boom’ tells a story of basketball and politics, wealth and power—revealing new truths about the NBA’s greatest heist
Bill Simmons Bill Simmons on the NFL Hall of Fame and Player Empowermenttheringer.com - Ryen Russillo Russillo examines the difference in player empowerment between the NBA and the NFL (5:10) before sitting down with Bill Simmons to discuss NFL …
‘Group Chat’: Is James Harden Right About the Media and MVP Narratives?theringer.com - Justin Verrier We play a game of “Is This a Thing?” with a slew of offseason story lines, including James Harden’s comments about how the media chooses the MVP
NCAA Five Ways the NBA Changed off the Court This Offseasontheringer.com - Haley O'Shaughnessy The middle of September usually marks a whole lot of nothing for the NBA. Content from players is limited. Workout videos are posted by trainers, …
Steph Curry Steph Curry Is Already Laying the Groundwork for the Year of Stephtheringer.com - Shaker Samman Two weeks remain until NBA players report for training camp, but Stephen Curry is getting a head start on setting his narrative for the 2019-20 …
‘The Mismatch’: Spain Wins the FIBA World Cup. Plus: NBA Islands!theringer.com - Chris Vernon The guys discuss Spain’s victory over Argentina in the 2019 FIBA World Cup finals
Brandon Ingram Brandon Ingram Is the NBA’s Most Intriguing Rookie Extension Candidatetheringer.com - Jonathan Tjarks Extending a player’s rookie contract is one of the biggest gambles an NBA team can make. Given how young many players are when they are drafted, it’s …
Markelle Fultz What Does Orlando Know About Markelle Fultz That We Don’t?theringer.com - Paolo Uggetti Markelle Fultz is back in the news—this time, for a good reason. The Magic announced Monday that they will pick up Fultz’s contract option for the …
FIBA World Cup The Winners and Losers of the 2019 FIBA World Cuptheringer.com - Dan Devine The 2019 FIBA World Cup concluded on Sunday with two medal-round games that featured four of the best teams in the world, plenty of players …
Jayson Tatum Should the Celtics Be Worried About a Team USA Hangover?theringer.com - Shaker Samman No NBA team had more representatives on Team USA’s roster than the Celtics. Which is to say no team had as much of a hand in its failures than …
Shaun Livingston Shaun Livingston Redefined Successtheringer.com - Rodger Sherman If Shaun Livingston had merely kept his leg and learned to walk again, that would have been enough. If Livingston had been cleared to play …
Lebron James Team USA Can Learn Something From the NBA’s Superteam Eratheringer.com - Dan Devine After 13 years of international dominance, the U.S. men’s national basketball team is now on a losing streak. One day after a 10-point loss to France …
Alex Caruso The Longtime Come-up of the Lakers’ Alex Carusotheringer.com - Paolo Uggetti This offseason, Alex Caruso’s phone has blown up twice. The first time was expected: Caruso, who spent the last two seasons as a two-way player for …
Team USA It’s Time for the Next Generation of Team USA to Step Uptheringer.com - Jonathan Tjarks There was one clear lesson from Team USA’s 89-79 loss to France at the FIBA World Cup on Wednesday: They didn’t have enough talent. The Americans …
Team USA ‘Group Chat’: France Eliminates Team USA From the FIBA World Cup. What Now?theringer.com - Justin Verrier We gather for an emergency reaction to Team USA losing in international tournament play for the first time in 58 games. What comes next for USA …
United States Team USA’s Loss Was Predictable, Not Shockingtheringer.com - Zach Kram Here’s the strange thing about Team USA’s surprising, but not really all that surprising, defeat in Wednesday’s World Cup quarterfinal: In six World …
FIBA World Cup Team USA Lost the FIBA World Cup. Let’s Figure Out What’s Next.theringer.com - Dan Devine Everybody knew the Team USA that took the court in China for the 2019 FIBA World Cup would be the most vulnerable version in more than a decade, once …
Ninja The NBA Is Banning “Ninja-Style” Headbands. We Have Some Questions.theringer.com - Haley O'Shaughnessy The NBA wants you to know that size and length matter. For headbands, anyway. On Monday, the league announced in a statement that the “ninja-style” …
Dennis Rodman Dennis Rodman’s Life Less Ordinarytheringer.com - Brian Phillips Against all the odds—I mean, like, literally all of them—there is a sound journalistic reason to make a documentary about Dennis Rodman in 2019. I’m …
Marc Gasol Marc Gasol Is the Key to Spain’s Gold-Medal Chase and the Raptors’ Futuretheringer.com - Jonathan Tjarks Marc Gasol is no longer one of the best big men in the NBA, but he can still shut down the best when he needs to. He frustrated Nikola Jokic in an …
Team USA Team USA Is Getting Closer and Closer to Being Its Best Selftheringer.com - Dan Devine It was the glass-half-full take, heading into the 2019 FIBA World Cup, so I wrote it: While this Team USA didn’t have the marquee names and offensive …
Baze’s Farewell, Offseason Recap, and Looking Ahead to 2020theringer.com - Winging It The ‘Winging It’ crew sits down to bid Baze farewell and wish him luck in Portland
FIBA World Cup Everything You Missed at the World Cup While White-Knuckling Through Team USA Gamestheringer.com - Dan Devine The second round of the 2019 FIBA World Cup gets underway Friday, with the top 16 teams from the original 32-team field moving on to another group …
Team USA What Team USA Needs to Fix to Avoid an Ugly Exit at the World Cuptheringer.com - Jonathan Tjarks Team USA has been as disappointing as everyone feared it would be at the FIBA World Cup. The Americans’ 3-0 record in group play doesn’t mean …
Ben Simmons ‘Group Chat’: 2019 Story Line Over/Understheringer.com - Chris Ryan We do a little game of “predict the headlines” ahead of the 2019 NBA season: When will Anthony Davis start to get unhappy in L.A.? When will Ben …
Kawhi Leonard Franchise-Altering Shots Are Rare: The Last Four NBA Seasons Have Had Five of Themtheringer.com - Haley O'Shaughnessy My song of the summer is Damian Lillard’s series-clinching shot in Game 5 against the Thunder. I revisit the replay so often that YouTube is …
Zach LaVine The NBA’s Next Scoring Champ Will Be … Zach LaVine?theringer.com - D.J. Foster Five seasons. Two teams. One major ACL injury. Zero playoff appearances. Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine’s ascent to stardom has been delayed by bad …
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