Katie Heindl

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By trying to please everyone, the NBA All-Star Game serves no one

SAN FRANCISCO — In his postgame press conference, whether subconsciously or inadvertently or both, Steph Curry said there were times during All-Star Sunday night when it “felt like the game got in...

The NBA Dunk Contest is just as good as ever. What’s changed is the world around it

SAN FRANCISCO — Basketball loves revisionist history. From softening big, heartbreaking losses in hindsight or myth-making a game where someone was sick and rallied to play into an analogous-but-makes-zero-sense-out-of-context, colloquial short-hand (I’m...

How NBA fines turn bad moments into good deeds

What’s the afterlife of an NBA fine? After the pushing and shoving, the bursts of colourful language and complaints about officiating or the league that skew a little too public, where does...

Katie Heindl

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