The minor-league baseball schedule offered Trayce Thompson a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate his brother Klay’s fourth NBA title in Boston on Thursday. Five days later, Trayce Thompson is celebrating a signature moment of his own. He’s headed back to the major leagues. Thompson joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in Cincinnati on Tuesday after the Detroit … Read more
The minor-league baseball schedule offered Trayce Thompson a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate his brother Klay’s fourth NBA title in Boston on Thursday. Five days later, Trayce Thompson is celebrating a signature moment of his own. He’s headed back to the major leagues. Thompson joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in Cincinnati on Tuesday after the Detroit … Read more
8:44 AM ET Tory BarronESPNEditor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. By now you know the Golden State Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics to win the NBA Finals in … Read more
7:47 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — It’s been two years since the Bay Area hosted a championship parade, but neither the city, nor the Warriors, forgot how to take in the moment. Stephen Curry hopped on top of a banister at a Muni train station stop and started hitting the sign that was … Read more
Jun 17, 2022 Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — With 63 seconds remaining in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka, his team trailing by 11, waved the white flag and replaced all five of his starters. Jayson Tatum, after slowly trudging off the court, exchanged greetings with Boston players and coaches, untucked … Read more
8:18 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — Amidst the champagne showers that drenched Golden State’s locker room in the TD Garden, Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins hopped on Instagram Live to share the celebration with their followers. In the live stream, Poole looked at Wiggins and proclaimed, “You’re going to get a bag.” An … Read more
Sometimes you get lucky in this life — and by “this life,” I mean the sportswriter’s life. Sometimes you’re let in on a secret before anyone else knows about it. Sometimes you get a glimpse of what’s to come. Scribes for the Providence Journal and Hartford Courant surely got an eyeful of Babe Ruth and … Read more
CNN — Down 2-1, with the Boston crowd howling and baying, Stephen Curry painted his Mona Lisa. Like Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, it was comprehended of soft strokes of the finest details and, in the end, was beautiful. Curry’s legacy as one of the sport’s greats has long been cemented, but he’s never been one … Read more
Andrew Wiggins helped keep Jayson Tatum at bay.Image: Getty Images Sometimes it just feels good to be right. After proclaiming before the NBA Finals started that the Boston Celtics had zero chance against the Golden State Warriors, the Dubs beat the Celtics by double-digits in Game 6 to end the series 4-2. Many across the … Read more
New York CNN Business — As the Golden State Warriors and their star point guard Steph Curry surged ahead of the Boston Celtics in Game 6 on Thursday to win their fourth NBA championship in eight seasons, it should also have been a win for the crypto industry. The Warriors were said to have previously … Read more