We have a ton of folks in San Antonio. We've got reporters stationed with Knicks fans in NYC. We've got our wonderful analysts all over the country.
It's all in our Spurs-Knicks Game 1 live blog. https://t.co/d1i2nME9fL
There’s a simple way to all but ensure your team makes the NBA Finals: get a former Washington Wizard. Starting in 2009, an ex-Wizard has been on at least one Finals team 18 straight years, while Washington has floundered. Free to read, in @TheAthletic:
https://t.co/8RKVLKs9kV
Our video team at The Athletic has been killing it this season. Has been really fun to get back into video essay writing/hosting.
We’ve got a great crew building out this side of things.
🗣️ "BING BONG!"
Knicks fans' pandemonium has taken over social media.
In an exclusive with The Athletic, @sidetalknyc creator @trentsimonian speaks for the first time about how they create their viral videos.
Breaking: Cavs plan to keep Kenny Atkinson, coaching staff, front office together after Eastern Conference finals sweep, @TheAthleticNBA https://t.co/EE418WBoyt
"Thank you for bringing awareness to how important connection is with the written word and literature is.” My newest @TheAthleticNBA on the 'Read Like Wemby' campaign at San Antonio Central library https://t.co/V55QawpaSz free and unlocked to read:
After the Spurs lost Game 3, Coach Pop came into the locker room to give the team a reminder of what got them there. They ended up looking like the team they've been all season in Game 4.
Story with @MikePradaNBA on @TheAthletic https://t.co/MNGVUVTLD1
There’s a woman courtside here in San Antonio who brought a mini Oscar trophy to present to SGA whenever he hits the deck. More sights/sounds/analysis on the @TheAthletic live blog here.
https://t.co/E8oH0QM43k
I don’t know who’s luckier, Jared for getting to cover this kind of player and personality, Wemby for having someone as good as Jared to document the early journey, or us getting to read it
NEW:
The 5 Dimensions of Wembanyama: My season inside Wemby’s World
A journey through the five elements that make up Victor, diving into my first-person experience of covering the most mind-bending athlete on the planet, humanizing the man known as The Alien.
Read below 👇
I don’t know who’s luckier, Jared for getting to cover this kind of player and personality, Wemby for having someone as good as Jared to document the early journey, or us getting to read it
NEW on @nytimes:
Wemby sat there as Adam Silver handed SGA the MVP trophy, staring a hole into the court. He knew that’s where he would show the world his response.
Then he went out and had a game for the ages, a declaration that he has revolutionized basketball and that this journey to GOATdom is real and it’s happening, right now.
Steph Castle put it perfectly:
“Best player in the fucking world!”
Read on why Wemby established that he is the best player in basketball now, on @TheAthletic & NYT 👇
Before Game 1 of the Western Conference finals, Victor Wembanyama watched the MVP trophy he so coveted go to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
His response? A performance for the ages.
Free to read from @JaredWeissNBA:
https://t.co/mUj89KQp5V
NBA tanking reform is coming. But it's not entirely popular across teams around the league as some execs see it as changing one set of issues for another. The view from Chicago, from @sam_amick and me:
(Free and unlocked for all to read) https://t.co/Lc7OKcdSF6