NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson held up the golden NBA championship trophy for a forest of outstretched hands to touch as fans celebrated the New York Knicks’ first title in 53 years with a booming para...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Knicks fans have waited forever for this. Thursday’s ticker-tape parade for the new NBA champions will be a first. When the team won the title before, in 1970 and ‘73, they we...

And just like that, it’s next season in the NBA. The New York Knicks will be feted with a championship parade through the streets of Manhattan on Thursday after a postseason in which they successfully...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls are finalizing a deal to hire Portland Trail Blazers interim coach Tiago Splitter as their next head coach, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Pre...

NEWYORK (AP) — It was bedlam on Broadway as the New York Knicks won their first NBA championship in 53 years on Saturday night, with exuberant celebrations marred by mayhem and violence, including a s...

And just like that, it’s next season in the NBA. The New York Knicks will be feted with a championship parade through the streets of Manhattan on Thursday after a postseason in which they successfully...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Mike Brown didn’t seem to be the New York Knicks’ first choice to take over as coach last spring, when the team fired Tom Thibodeau and was linked to at least a half-dozen other can...

The BYU star is projected to go ahead of Kansas’ Peterson, Duke’s Boozer and UNC’s Wilson. By AARON BEARD and BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writers AJ Dybantsa is at the NBA Finals this week, working in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Wembanyama likens home-court advantage to having six players on the court against five. On the road, it is like five on six. Wemby likes it like that. Wembanyama and the San Ant...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Go crazy, New York. Or, perhaps more accurately, crazier. The red-hot Knicks are going home, two wins away from an NBA championship that the capital of the world has been waiting to...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Paul Westhead had a coaching career like none other. He won an NBA championship as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1980. He won a WNBA championship as coach of the Phoenix Mercur...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The New York Knicks’ winning streak lives on, and they struck first in the NBA Finals. Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, an...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The NBA’s hopes of starting a new independent league in Europe by the end of 2027 are on schedule, Commissioner Adam Silver said before the start of the NBA Finals on Wednesday nigh...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — No matter what, the basketball-crazed Philippines will have a champion to celebrate when these NBA Finals are over. New York’s Jordan Clarkson and San Antonio’s Dylan Harper — who’l...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — For a few hours on Tuesday, the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks held practices on a floor that had the NBA Finals logo painted at midcourt. They did interviews with the logo a...

Rick Adelman, a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who played for seven NBA seasons before becoming one of the game’s all-time winningest coaches, has died, the National Basketball Coaches Association a...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The marquee outside of Madison Square Garden in December 1949 once promoted the following event, which was happening a couple of days later: “Geo Mikan vs Knicks.” Not “Minneapolis ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Chet Holmgren attempted two shots in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals. He absorbed plenty of shots from critics afterward. And the Oklahoma City Thunder spent Day 1 of the ...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — When the New York Knicks declined to hang a banner after beating the San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Cup, they did so because they were waiting to celebrate something bigger. ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Victor Wembanyama barely could get the words out. The question, a few minutes after he and the San Antonio Spurs won the Western Conference title and earned the right to go to this ...