SOPAN DEB

The top pick is widely expected to be Victor Wembanyama, a 19-year-old French basketball star.

It was the first playoff matchup of Stephen Curry and LeBron James since 2018. This time, James came out on top.

Curry and James are meeting in the playoffs, perhaps for the last time. Together and apart, they have redefined a generation of basketball.

Atlanta’s Trae Young, Boston’s Jaylen Brown and the Nets’ Mikal Bridges are learning to handle the praise and the pressure of rising stardom.

The star Celtics guard talks about his career year in the N.B.A., educational inequality and his association with Kanye West.

Boston has star players, a deep bench and recent N.B.A. finals experience. What the team won’t have, if it loses in the playoffs, will be...

Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant have become the faces of their superteam’s failure, but the Nets leadership could have averted disaster several times, and didn’t.

Fans of James, the N.B.A.’s biggest star, came from all over the world to see his record-breaking performance Tuesday. “I’m not going to regret the...

Teammates. Competitors. Victims of his memes. They each have a story about James’s road to breaking the N.B.A. career scoring record.

In his first news conference since his suspension began, Irving said he doesn’t stand for “anything close to hate speech or antisemitism.”