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“Saturday Night Live” ended its season just weeks ago, but the show is still playing a part in coronavirus-era life at NBCUniversal. NBCSN, the company’s sports-cable network, will fill next week’s primetime schedule with “SNL” repeats featuring prominent athletes as hosts. It’s just the latest programming maneuver by sports-media outlets to get something on the …
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Astros third baseman Alex Bregman’s decision to part ways with his sports agency, Klutch Sports, was reportedly influenced by last week’s announcement that Uninterrupted, a film production company co-founded by fellow Klutch athlete LeBron James, is helping produce a documentary about the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal. The Athletic reported late Tuesday night that Bregman “felt …
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It likely wouldn’t solve the GOAT debate, but Michael Jordan and LeBron James did once face off on the basketball court. A 16-year-old James met Jordan in 2001 for a pickup game, and after sitting on the sidelines for the first hour while other NBA players like Antoine Walker, Jerry Stackhouse, Paul Pierce, Penny Hardaway, …
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The Los Angeles Lakers star said it remains his wish that the season comes back ‘sooner than later’. LeBron James reiterated Monday that he is hopeful the NBA season can resume, with the caveat that the health and well-being of players won’t be jeopardized by a return to play. The Los Angeles Lakers star, speaking on …
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Many consider LeBron James to be the greatest basketball player of all time, but one longtime NBA coach thinks he could’ve had a historic career in another sport, too. While appearing on the “Go Off with Austin Rivers” podcast, Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers speculated that the 16-time NBA All-Star and three-time NBA champion …
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You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Knicks. Will LeBron James ever play for the Knicks? — Jeffrey Bernstein I will never rule this one …
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Not everyone wants sports back as soon as possible. NBA team executives and agents are pushing for the currently suspended season to be officially cancelled — according to a CNBC report — a desire to concentrate on formulating a safe plan to begin next season, mounting financial losses and frustration with the league’s sharing of …
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This was Kobe Bryant’s first year of eligibility. Official announcements will reportedly be made on Sunday. Lakers legend Kobe Bryant is officially set to be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame later this year: Bryant and his daugher, Gianna, were among the nine people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas …
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If and when the NBA restarts its season, it could all happen in one glitzy spot like Las Vegas, the Bahamas or … a college campus in the Midwest? Those are three of the options that have been discussed by players and executives, according to ESPN, as the league tries to formulate a plan for …
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It was eight years ago when LeBron James sat across from Jim Gray on ESPN with children from the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich, Conn., seated in the background. It was trumpeted as “The Decision,” and it had the NBA on pins and needles waiting for its transcendent free agent in his prime to …
“Saturday Night Live” ended its season just weeks ago, but the show is still playing a part in coronavirus-era life at NBCUniversal. NBCSN, the company’s sports-cable network, will fill next week’s primetime schedule with “SNL” repeats featuring prominent athletes as hosts. It’s just the latest programming maneuver by sports-media outlets to get something on the …
