Basketball

July 24, 2022

Pretty in Any Color: Women in Basketball Make the Style Rules

Angel Reese considers herself “a pink kind of girl.” Pink nails, pink hair tie, pink shoes, sometimes even “a little bit of pink in my lashes,” […]
April 28, 2022

Trae Young, Your Hair Is a Magnificent Unsolved Mystery

The complex ’do of the Hawks player has been debated, dissed and memed. But our critic pays respect to its “confusion, awe and strength.” What now? […]
April 9, 2022

Russell Westbrook’s Complicated Homecoming

LAWNDALE, Calif. — “Go home,” Russell Westbrook yelled at a heckler seated behind the players’ bench. “Go home,” he repeated. The crowd at this late-February blowout […]
March 4, 2022

‘Winning Time’: When the NBA Went Pop

A new HBO drama chronicles the 1980s Lakers, whose fluid style and Hollywood flair changed the game and the culture. An N.B.A. writer takes account. When […]
May 21, 2021

Welcome to the Space Jam, Again

Every three hours, every day, for the past seven and a half years, an anxious, spirited Twitter bot has transmitted a short message of perseverance and […]
January 2, 2021

Los Angeles Lakers Owner Jeanie Buss on Leadership, Love and Magic

Credit…Tracy Nguyen for The New York Times Lady of the Lakers Jeanie Buss inherited a team, and a legacy, from her father. What will her imprint […]
October 2, 2020

Jalen Rose’s N.B.A. Finals Diary: ‘I Can’t Wait for the Game’

Even in a pandemic, Jalen Rose gets his hair cut about twice a week. He likes to look sharp when he’s on TV, and these days, […]
May 15, 2020

Lady Jordan

The Mrs. Files looks at history through a contemporary lens to see what the honorific “Mrs.” means to women and their identity. Lady Jordan Denice Frohman […]
May 15, 2020

Lady Jordan

The Mrs. Files looks at history through a contemporary lens to see what the honorific “Mrs.” means to women and their identity. Lady Jordan Denice Frohman […]
March 1, 2017

Styles Q. and A.: Filmmaker Bart Freundlich on Shooting Hoops at 47

Two or three times a week, for 20 years, Bart Freundlich has played basketball with a group of guys in gymnasiums around New York City, where […]