n.b.a. (national basketball association)

LeBron James Is Making His Last Great Adjustment

Ravi Singh2 weeks ago04 mins

This past Wednesday, against the Houston Rockets, James played in his one-thousand-six-hundred-and-tenth N.B.A. game. When he played his first, in 2003, not all of his Laker teammates had been born. (One of them, after all, is James’s son.) The previous evening, I spoke to Sean Bryan, a primary sports-medicine doctor at the Hospital for Special…

Luke Kornet Has Something to Say

Ravi Singh4 weeks ago04 mins

When Kornet started his blog, he imagined a practical guide, for fellow-players who sought succor on the road: Catholic churches in N.B.A. cities. But after a post about the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal (“Don’t Pass the Rock Episode 1: Montreal”), the blog abruptly ended. Another attempt, the following season, lasted two posts. “I was reaching…