There are some athletes who at a young age simply seem destined to achieve greatness, and Victor Wembanyama is one of them.I haven’t seen the basketball card hobby this exited about a...

The morning after Alex Bregman made his free-agent decision, Fred Petersen sent a text to his former boss with the Boston Red Sox, Amiel Sawdaye.“We got BERGMAN,” Petersen wrote.With that, a running...

SAN FRANCISCO — The NBA Slam Dunk Contest contest needs to be saved. It needs the game’s stars to participate.How many times have you heard or read that?Saturday night showed it’s not about...

MONTREAL — Nine seconds of pure bedlam.And the idea was born from a three-person group chat earlier in the day.Matthew Tkachuk, Brady Tkachuk and J.T. Miller had an idea. Let’s go rock’em...

MONTREAL — Team USA, riding the surge of three first-period fights in the opening nine seconds, claimed a 3-1 win over Team Canada on Saturday at the Bell Centre. Matthew Tkachuk started...

SAN FRANCISCO — There’s a shared skill among former NBA stars who played from 1991 to 2009. Many of them can do a solid imitation of the Dikembe Mutombo finger wag. After...

(Editor’s note: Throughout the week, The Athletic highlighted the Harlem Globetrotters and their contributions to basketball, vision for entertainment and overall commitment to goodwill.)All he wanted was a picture.When Pawel Kidoń attended...

Editor’s note: Throughout the week, The Athletic highlighted the Harlem Globetrotters and their contributions to basketball, vision for entertainment and overall commitment to goodwill. This series will conclude on Sunday, Feb. 16.The...