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Yahoo SportsHow the Warriors' 2022 championship journey is a part of something new
“It was really special for fans because they watch all the games and they feel like they get to know the players and coaches, [but] until you really see the behind-the-scenes stuff, you don’t have a great idea of what’s happening,” Kerr said.
Yahoo SportsIt's time for Steve Nash to find his coaching voice, challenge the Nets before clock runs out
Nash doesn’t have a commanding, domineering presence or booming voice that can stop people in their tracks. But the Nets need force, applied pressure and some discomfort that isn’t surrounded by nonsense.
Yahoo SportsNets need more than 'culture' to prove questions stemming from Kevin Durant's trade demand won't loom over season
When employing a player of Durant’s talent, championship discussion should be the bare minimum. But the Nets are surrounded by so much other stuff, you wonder if it’ll be possible for them to galvanize themselves for the next eight to nine months.
Yahoo SportsHow Adam Silver evolves after Robert Sarver decision will determine his tenure as NBA commissioner
If Silver was one with no moral compass, the words wouldn’t have seemed so choppy, so constipated, so conflicted. It was a loss he had to take, backed into a corner he didn’t choose but accepted nonetheless.
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Robert Sarver's suspension, fine was always the most likely outcome to avoid discovery in a lawsuit
The most likely reason the NBA didn't try to remove Robert Sarver as Suns owner was to avoid a potentially embarrassing court battle.
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Swin Cash enters Hall of Fame as an on-court winner who is now blazing a path in an NBA front office
While she had an up-and-down relationship with Shock coach Bill Laimbeer, he empowered her by asking about personnel decisions as a player, which prepared her for her current role.
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Donovan Mitchell joins ambitious Cavaliers after Knicks balk at parting with RJ Barrett, Quentin Grimes
Sources told Yahoo Sports a deal was close with the Knicks before New York balked at the last second. It would’ve included Barrett, Grimes, expiring contracts and a package of draft picks.
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Kevin Durant's trade request saga obscured the many questions the Brooklyn Nets still face heading into season
Durant returns, and so does the same cast of characters with the same doubts issues they had before he set the world afire more than seven weeks ago.
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Joe Dumars reemerges as the NBA's head of basketball operations
Joe Dumars will take up a post in the NBA's league office as Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations.
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Why Bill Russell is perhaps the most important player in NBA history
Russell was unapologetically Black, forward thinking and operated under no delusions about where he played or the country he lived in.
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