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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 …

One of the best basketball products to come out of New York City lost his mom and brother after they battled coronavirus. Erica Telfair, the mother of former NBA and Abraham Lincoln High School star Sebastian Telfair, died early Monday after battling the virus, although her official cause of death is unknown. She was 64. …

Even after Georgia governor Brian Kemp reopened his state, the Atlanta Hawks aren’t going to reopen their facilities prematurely amid the coronavirus pandemic. Two days after reports stated the NBA planned on allowing players to return to team facilities in states with loosened stay-at-home restrictions, the league sent a memo pushing back the reopening date …

The Los Angeles Lakers returned a loan obtained through the US government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the team confirmed on Monday, after learning that funds in the federal program had been depleted. The loans were intended to help smaller businesses with no more than 500 employees cover employee payroll and rent, with large sectors of …

If NBA commissioner Adam Silver goes through with a plan of opening up practice facilities to players on May 1 in cities no longer under coronavirus lockdown, the Knicks and Nets would face challenges. A Friday reopening for the two local teams doesn’t jibe well with Gov. Cuomo’s timetable. At his press briefing Sunday, Cuomo …

The 1994-95 Magic advanced to take on the 1996-97 Jazz in SB Nation’s “Titleless’ tournament, and they need your vote. Shaq and Penny. Stockton and Malone. 40 fingers. Zero rings. (Well, in the 1990s, at least. Before Shaq defected to Los Angeles). But now one of those infamous duos – held ringless by a Hakeem …

In a step of progress to the reopening of the season, the NBA is planning on allowing teams in cities in which there is no longer a lockdown to open their practice facilities May 1 for players to stage informal workouts, according to ESPN. This won’t hold true for the Knicks and Nets, because Gov. …

Bruno (he asked us to use his nickname) woke up on March 12 expecting it to be a glorious day. After all, it was his 50th birthday, a milestone in anyone’s life. The sun had a brilliant presence and the waves from the Pacific Ocean pounded along the beach. For a Jersey kid now living …

The fifth time looks like the charm for Knicks center Mitchell Robinson. In February, Robinson signed on with Rich Paul, the superagent who guides the careers of LeBron James and Anthony Davis and recently made the cover of Sports Illustrated for his influence. Paul became Robinson’s fifth agent — one of the perplexing sidelights to …

Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls have long been considered the NBA’s model franchise. But before he got there, they were far from it — both on and off the court. When the Bulls drafted Jordan out of the University of North Carolina in 1984, Chicago had missed the playoffs in seven of the previous nine seasons, …