Knicks-76ers series got real with heated Embiid-Brunson moment
PHILADELPHIA – There was a moment toward the end Friday night. The 76ers already had Game 3 in hand, and the Knicks were trying to make them sweat, even if …
PHILADELPHIA – There was a moment toward the end Friday night. The 76ers already had Game 3 in hand, and the Knicks were trying to make them sweat, even if …
PHILADELPHIA — The deadline for the Sixers to file an official grievance with the NBA about the officiating passed, but their gripes about it led to an overwhelming free-throw disparity …
Sample size matters, people. So when The Athletic launched its first NBA player poll in 2019, with 127 players answering questions about league matters so honestly because of the anonymity …
It isn’t often you see a team score eight points in 21 seconds. It’s even rarer when it happens in a playoff game, with less than a minute left, against …
Highlights of the Knicks’ 104-101 Game 2 win over the 76ers on Monday for a 2-0 series lead. Hero Donte DiVincenzo’s fourth 3-pointer of the game with 13.0 seconds left …
Jalen Brunson didn’t hesitate with his answer. He’d just attempted a career-high 26 shots and finished with his fifth-worst conversion percentage (30.8) in a postseason game. For so many nights …
Miles McBride played the entire fourth quarter Saturday in a breakout postseason performance, which means someone had to be relegated to the bench for those minutes. That someone was starting …
Josh Hart is often mentioned as the type of gritty player who would have fit in perfectly with the tenacious Knicks teams of the 1990s, beloved squads that reached the …
We, as a species, have trouble imagining something until it actually happens. The NBA playoffs are a perfect vessel from which to view this particular shortcoming. The Boston Celtics just …
Sports rivalries between New York and Philadelphia date back more than a century. In the first 10 iterations of the modern World Series, the New York Giants and Philadelphia A’s …