Mark Pope’s Kentucky Masterplan: Build Around Two Scorers and Watch the SEC Burn

Most coaches land a big recruit and spend at least a week basking in it. Maybe a celebratory dinner. A couple of glad-handing phone calls. A moment to exhale. Not Mark Pope. The man landed Milan Momcilovic — a five-star transfer — and within the same week had turned around and locked down five-star freshman…

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Knicks Championship Seals Brunson’s Status as New York’s Greatest Ever Point Guard

53 Years. One Night. One Man. The last time the New York Knicks won a championship, Nixon was in the White House, the World Trade Center had just opened, and your grandfather was probably still arguing about it at the dinner table. That was 1973. Half a century of heartbreak, dysfunction, and false dawns —…

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TENSION: Former NBA Legend Publicly Brands Spurs Coach And Players ‘Dumb — And The Fallout Is Massive

There are polite ways to say a team played badly. Charles Barkley has never been interested in polite. After one of the most jaw dropping collapses in NBA Finals history, Sir Charles sat down on Inside the NBA alongside Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith and Draymond Green — and absolutely unloaded on the San Antonio Spurs…

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The Timing Could Not Be Worse — Spurs Hit With Devastating News Just Hours Before Game 5

Blowing a 29 point lead in the NBA Finals is the kind of thing that breaks teams. Not just in the moment — but in the days that follow, in the locker room, in the warm ups, in the quiet moments before tip off when nobody’s talking but everybody’s thinking the same thing. San Antonio…

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DRAFT DRAMA: Wildcat Fan Favorite Otega Oweh’s NBA Future May Go Down To The Wire On Draft Night

There are Kentucky players. And then there’s Otega Oweh. The man who hit more clutch shots in two seasons than most players manage in entire careers — and who will go down as a modern Wildcats legend regardless of what happens next. But what happens next is the question nobody can quite answer right now….

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