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Mark Eaton, a former two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year for the Utah Jazz, died Friday night after apparently crashing his bike, the team announced Saturday.
He was 64.
Eaton was found...
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The Knicks will give up their second-round pick to move up from No. 27 to 23 in Wednesday’s 2020 NBA Draft, in a pick swap with the Utah Jazz, an NBA source confirmed.
The Knicks had the 38th pick
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Stanley Crouch, a contentious and influential critic, columnist and self-taught Renaissance man who in fiction and nonfiction was inspired by his knowledge and love of blues and jazz and his impulse to step over the line, died Wednesday at age 74. His wife, Gloria Nixon-Crouch, told The Associated Press that he died at a hospice …
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Ronald “Khalis” Bell, a co-founder and singer of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 68. Bell died at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands Wednesday morning with his wife by his side, publicist Sujata Murthy said. The cause of death has not been released. Kool & the Gang grew from …
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Tom Thibodeau’s Knicks coaching staff continues to have an offbeat feel to it as the Knicks will add Utah Jazz assistant Johnnie Bryant as an associate coach, a source confirmed. According to a source, the hiring was made from a player-development angle but it also could be a lure for Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell. The …
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Moments before the Pelicans and Jazz kicked off the NBA’s return to action, every player, coach and referee on the court kneeled during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice. They joined together in a powerful image, locking together in arms on a court with the words “Black Lives Matter” largely displayed. …
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Annie Ross, an internationally acclaimed jazz singer and actress, died Tuesday of emphysema and heart disease. She was 89. Born Annabelle Allan Short on July 25, 1930, in London, Ross was the daughter of Scottish vaudevillians, and already had experience singing, acting and with life on the road by age 4, when her family moved …
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Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb, who brought subtlety and swing to Miles Davis’ epochal “Kind of Blue” and many other classic albums, died at his home in New York on Sunday, according to NPR and other outlets. He was 91. His wife, Eleana Tee Cobb, said the cause was lung cancer. While best known as a …
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The man who guided the powerhouse Jazz teams of the 1990s has passed away. Jerry Sloan died early Friday morning at the age of 78 after a battle with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, the team announced. “Jerry Sloan will always be synonymous with the Utah Jazz,” the franchise said in a statement. “He …
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Conspicuous by his absence in “The Last Dance” is Karl Malone, one of Michael Jordan’s chief rivals at the end of the Bulls dynasty, which concluded with two consecutive NBA Finals wins over Malone’s Jazz. Jason Hehir, the director of the 10-part ESPN docuseries, revealed on “The Dan Patrick Show” that Malone declined to be …
Mark Eaton, a former two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year for the Utah Jazz, died Friday night after apparently crashing his bike, the team announced Saturday. He was 64. Eaton was found...
